Digit – the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre – aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work, impacting on employers, employees, job seekers and governments. It is led by both University of Sussex Business School and Leeds University Business School with partners from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Manchester and Monash Universities. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Call for papers
Special Issue of New Technology, Work and Employment: The ‘new’ social relations of digital technology and the future of work
Editorial Team: Simon Joyce, Mark Stuart, Charles Umney, Xanthe Whitaker (Leeds University Business School)
Submission of Papers: 30th September 2020
Special Issue Publication: Autumn 2021
The aim of this special issue is to put social relations back at the heart of our understanding of digital technologies by asking: how does the agency of actors within the labour-capital relationship drive, reshape, and even limit, the development and dissemination of new technologies? We seek papers that explicitly place the social dynamics of the capitalist workplace at the heart of understanding digital technology.
Latest news
How managers can keep remote teams together in the Coronavirus crisis
Five pointers for how managers can use digital communications to keep their team together when they're spread apart in the Coronavirus lockdown. From Marc Fullman (PhD Student researching digital incivility) and Dr Emma Russell (Senior Lecturer in Occupational and Organizational Psychology) University of Sussex.
Dr Dimitra Petrakaki presents at a workshop on ‘Digital health platforms and the future of work’ held at the University of Bristol
Dimitra presented on 03 March in Bristol.
ETUI Policy Brief
This policy brief sets out the first findings of the Leeds Index on worker protest in the platform economy.
Forthcoming events
2020 ISS (International Schumpeter Society) Conference
8 July 2020 to 10 July 2020
Rome, Italy
SASE Conference 2020
18 July 2020 to 20 July 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands
10th Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology: “Research and Activism”
14 September 2020 to 18 September 2020
1010 Wien, Austria
Monash Business School Symposium - Please note rescheduled to 2021
28 July 2021 to 29 July 2021
Prato, Italy
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