Sam Hind

Sam Hind

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  • Room 3.02, Mansfield Cooper Building

    M13 9PL Manchester

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Projects especially welcome on the rise of "software-first" Chinese automotive firms (BYD, Nio, Xiaomi etc.), tech innovation cultures, or the environmental impacts of AI.

Personal profile

Overview

Sam Hind is a lecturer in digital media and culture at the University of Manchester. He is based in the department of Art History and Cultural Practices (AHCP), and is a member of the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media. He is currently (2024-25) Programme Director for the MA in Digital Media, Culture and Society.

He has recently published a monograph on the phenomenon of autonomous driving, Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World (Palgrave, 2024). The book considers how different mapping, sensing, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from computer science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end’ ML models at autonomous vehicle start-ups. 

His research interests include:

  • machine vision and machine learning
  • tech innovation and competitions
  • automotive industry/platform automobility
  • autonomous driving
  • history of computer simulation
  • environmental impacts of AI

In 2025-26 (semester 1) he will be on academic research leave. In 2025-26 (semester 2) he will convene DIGI20062 Digital Manchester and DIGI61112 AI, Algorithms and Society.

He joined the University of Manchester in October 2022, and was previously research associate in SFB1187 Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen, Germany. He received his PhD from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK.

For PhD enquiries broadly related to the above research topics, email [email protected]

For more details: https://samhind.com/

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Disruptive Cartographies: Manouevres, Risk and Navigation, The University of Warwick

1 Oct 20121 Oct 2016

Award Date: 1 Feb 2017

Areas of expertise

  • G Geography (General)
  • mapping
  • navigation
  • cartography
  • TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
  • autonomous vehicles
  • Automation
  • platform automobility
  • software
  • HE Transportation and Communications
  • innovation
  • competitions
  • environmental impacts
  • software

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Digital Futures
  • Creative Manchester

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