The Alan Turing Institute is being hindered in its goal of being the UK’s national centre for data science and artificial intelligence because of its governance structure and other issues, according to a new report.
The review, which was conducted by a panel of independent experts to mark the first five years of its operations, found that there has been clear value in the institute’s activities and outputs.
However, the governance structure of the institute – which is backed by more than a dozen leading research universities and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – is now a “hindrance”, according to the panel.
“It is apparent that the current governance of the institute acts as one of the barriers to fulfilling the national institute role,” the report says.
