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
Short-time working: part of the solution to an economic and wellbeing crisis?
Brendan Burchell discusses whether short-time working might be the way forward for the UK
Studentships for University of Sussex students
We have an exciting opportunity for two University of Sussex students to join our research team. […]
Harnessing the power of home working
Emma Russell and Chidi Ogbonnaya discuss the power of home working.
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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