María E. Cortés-Cediel

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Education

• 2022. PhD in Political Sciences, Public Administration and International Relations, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

• 2017. MSc in Government and Public Administration, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

• 2014. BSc in Political Sciences and Public Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• 2014. BSc in Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Teaching

2023-24

• Public Administration Theory

  • Double Degree on Law and Political Sciences, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

• Comparative Public Administration

  • Degree on Public Administration Management, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2022-23

• Public Administration Theory

  • Double Degree on Sociology and International Relations, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2021-22

• Public Administration Theory

  • Degree on Public Administration Management, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

• Comparative Public Administration

  • Degree on Public Administration Management, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2020-21

• Public Administration Theory

  • Degree on Political Sciences, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

  • Double Degree on Political Sciences and Philosophy, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

• Political Sciences II - Institutions and Public Decision Structures

  • Double Degree on Law and Political Sciences, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2019-20

• Introduction to Political Sciences

  • Degree on Political Sciences, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

  • Double Degree on Political Sciences and Philosophy, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

  • Double Degree on Sociology and International Relationships. Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Research lines

• Smart cities

• Governance

• Citizen engagement

• E-participation

• Public administration

Projects

2023-2026

• Interventions towards fair information access. National project (PID2022-139131NB-I00), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Plan Nacional I+D+i. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

2021-2023

• Implementation and impact of conversational and DLT systems on transparency, innovation and public management of social and health problems, and citizen participation. Regional project (P20_00314), Secretaría General de Universidades, Investigación y Tecnología de la Junta de Andalucía. Universidad de Granada.

2020-2022

• The podcast as a teaching and scientific dissemination tool. Teaching innovation project, Universidad Complutense de Madrid [report] [Spotify podcast]

Theses

• María E. Cortés-Cediel. 2017. Participación ciudadana en ciudades inteligentes (Citizen participation in smart cities). PhD thesis (Sobresaliente Cum Laude). Supervisors: Olga Gil and Ernesto Carrillo Barroso. Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 24th October, 2022. [url]

• María E. Cortés-Cediel. 2017. Participación ciudadana y ciudades inteligentes (Citizen participation and smart cities). MSc thesis (10/10). Supervisors: Olga Gil and Ernesto Carrillo Barroso. Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 15th September, 2017. [pdf]

Edited books

Book chapters

2023

• María E. Cortés Cediel. 2023. Retos en materia de participación ciudadana: instrumentos y metodologías en la elaboración de políticas más democráticas. Gobernanza y Administraciones territoriales para la próxima generación, pp. 321-340. Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública (INAP). ISBN 978-84-7351-765-2. URL: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=9206968 

Journal papers

2023

• María E. Cortés Cediel, Andrés Segura-Tinoco, Iván Cantador, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar. 2023. Trends and challenges of e-government chatbots: advances in exploring open government data and citizen participation content. Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), 40(4), 101877. DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2023.101877

2021

• Iván Cantador, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Miriam Fernández. 2021. Exploiting open data to analyze discussion and controversy in online citizen participation. Information Processing & Management (IPM), 57(5), 102301. DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102301 [draft pdf]

2020

• Lara Quijano-Sánchez, Iván Cantador, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Olga Gil. 2020. Recommender systems for smart cities. Information Systems (IS). DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2020.101545 [draft pdf] 

2019

• María E. Cortés-Cediel, Iván Cantador, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar. 2019. Analyzing citizen participation and engagement in European smart cities. Social Science Computer Review (SSCR). DOI: 10.1177/0894439319877478 [draft pdf] 

2018

• María E. Cortés-Cediel, Olga Gil. 2018. Engagement in smart cities: Design of an analysis and application framework for citizen participation [in Spanish]. Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas (GAPP) 19, Art. 4. ISSN: 1989-8991. DOI: 10.24965/gapp.v0i19.10505 [pdf] 

• Olga Gil, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Iván Cantador. 2018. Citizen participation and the rise of digital media platforms in smart governance and smart cities. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 8(1), Art. 2. IGI Global. ISSN: 2160-9918. DOI: 10.4018/IJEPR.2019010102 [pdf]

Conference papers

2024

• Jorge Resina, María E. Cortés Cediel, Cecilia Güemes, Guillermina Belavi, Elena Boschiero, Esther del Campo, Aída Diaz-Tendero Bollain. 2024. InnovaPodcast: el aula como laboratorio radiofónico en Ciencias Sociales. In Proceedings of the I Congreso en Innovación Docente de las Universidades Madrileñas (MadrID 2024). To appear.

• María José García Solana, María E. Cortés Cediel, Pilar Mairal, Jorge Crespo González. 2024. La simulación como estrategia de enseñanza-aprendizaje para futuros gestores públicos. In Proceedings of the IV Congreso internacional de Innovación en la docencia e investigación de las Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas (INNDOC 2024). La universidad: del reto de la transferencia a la transformación de la sociedad. Ediciones Egregius. ISBN: 978-84-1177-014-9. To appear.

• María José García Solana, María E. Cortés Cediel, Pilar Mairal. 2024. De la universidad al servicio público: Jornadas sobre atracción de talento en las Administraciones Públicas para el alumnado de los grados en GAP y GAP-Economía. In Proceedings of the IV Congreso internacional de Innovación en la docencia e investigación de las Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas (INNDOC 2024). La universidad: del reto de la transferencia a la transformación de la sociedad. Ediciones Egregius. ISBN: 978-84-1177-014-9. To appear.

• Jorge Crespo González, María José Vicente Vicente, María José García Solana, María E. Cortés Cediel. 2024. Profesorado y experiencias universitarias de introducción de la IA en las asignaturas de ciencias sociales. In Proceedings of the IV Congreso internacional de Innovación en la docencia e investigación de las Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas (INNDOC 2024). La universidad: del reto de la transferencia a la transformación de la sociedad. Ediciones Egregius. ISBN: 978-84-1177-014-9. To appear.

2022

• Iván Cantador, J. Ignacio Criado, Laura Alcaide Muñoz, María E. Cortés-Cediel. 2022. Open government data in Higher Education: a multidisciplinary innovation teaching experience. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL 2022). To appear. [pdf] [slides]

• Andrés Segura-Tinoco, Andrés Holgado-Sánchez, Iván Cantador, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolivar. 2022. A conversational agent for argument-driven e-participation. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2022). DOI: 10.1145/3543434.3543447 [pdf] [slides] Best research paper award

2021

• José L. Lavado, Iván Cantador, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Miriam Fernández. 2021. Automatic intent-based classification of citizen-to-government tweets. Ongoing research paper at the 19th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2021). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3049, pp. 5:1-5:9. [pdf] [long pdf] [slides]

• Iván Cantador, Jesús Viejo-Tardío, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar. 2021. A chatbot for searching and exploring open data: Implementation and evaluation in e-government. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021), 168-179. DOI: 10.1145/3463677.3463681 [pdf] [slides]

2020

• María E. Cortés-Cediel, Iván Cantador, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar. 2019. Technological and human development of smart cities: an empirical characterization of EUROCITIES case studies. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'20), Smart and Connected Cities and Communities track, pp. 1-10. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2020.280 [pdf] [slides]

2019

• María E. Cortés-Cediel. 2019. Citizen participation in smart cities. Thesis summary paper in EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2019 PhD colloquium. [pdf]

• María E. Cortés-Cediel, Iván Cantador, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar. 2019. Urban governance in action: citizen participation in European smart city experiences. Ongoing research paper in EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2019 proceedings. [pdf] [long pdf] [slides]

2018

• Iván Cantador, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Miriam Fernández, Harith Alani. 2018. What's going on in my city? Recommender systems and electronic participatory budgeting. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'18), 219-223. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3240323.3240391 [pdf] [slides] [poster]  Nominated to best short paper award

• María E. Cortés-Cediel, Olga Gil, Iván Cantador. 2018. Defining the engagement life cycle in e-participation. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o'18), art. 93. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3209281.3209393 [pdf] [poster]

• Iván Cantador, María E. Cortés-Cediel. 2018. Towards increasing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting digital tools. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o'18), art. 91. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3209281.3209389 [pdf] [poster]

2017

• María E. Cortés-Cediel, Iván Cantador, Olga Gil. 2017. Recommender systems for e-governance in smart cities: state of the art and research opportunities. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Recommender Systems for Citizens (CitRec'17), 7:1-7:6. ACM. ISBN: 978-1-4503-5370-0. DOI: 10.1145/3127325.3128331 [pdf]

• Iván Cantador, Alejandro Bellogín, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Olga Gil. 2017. Personalized recommendations in e-participation: offline experiments for the 'Decide Madrid' platform. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Recommender Systems for Citizens (CitRec'17), 5:1-5:6. ACM. ISBN: 978-1-4503-5370-0. DOI: 10.1145/3127325.3127330 [pdf]

• Jie Yang, Iván Cantador, Diana Nurbakova, María E. Cortés-Cediel, Alessandro Bozzon. 2017. Recommender systems for citizens: the CitRec'17 workshop manifesto. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Recommender Systems for Citizens (CitRec'17), 1:1-1:4. ACM. ISBN: 978-1-4503-5370-0. DOI: 10.1145/3127325.3177871 [pdf]

Research services

Journal guest editor

• Special Issue on New Approaches of Civic Engagement in the Public Administrations and Citizens Relations, at International Journal of Public Aministration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), 2020. Submission deadline: October 1, 2020.

Journal reviewer

• Universal Access in the Information Society, 2023.

• Journal of Urban Technology, 2021.

• Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR), 2021.

• IEEE Access, 2019.

• Revista Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas (GAPP), 2018.

Conference program committee member

• 18th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2024), 26-30 May 2024, Barcelona, Spain.

• 15th Annual conference of IFIP WG 8.5 on e-Government, e-Democracy, and e-Participation (EGOV 2023), 5-7 September, Budapest, Hungary.

• 17th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2023), 24-28 April 2023, Venice, Italy.

• 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2023), Maui, Hawaii, USA.

• 16th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2022), 26-30 June 2022, Porto, Portugal.

• 15th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2021), 18-22 July 2021, Nice, France.

• 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021) [subreviewer], 9-11 June 2021, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

• 14th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2020), 21-25 November 2020, Valencia, Spain.

• 13th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2019), 24-28 February 2019, Athens, Greece.

Research stays

Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK, February-May 2019. Collaboration with Prof. Miriam Fernández.

• E-participation

• Citizen engagement

• Government Open Data

Universidad de Granada, Spain, July 2018. Collaboration with Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar.

• Smart cities

• Citizen participation

Management services

2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23

• Academic coordinator of curricular internships, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.