Our ESRC-funded research aims to increase understanding of how digital technologies are changing work and the implications for employers, workers, job seekers and governments.
Latest news
Digit to cohost Early Career Workshop at SASE Conference 2022
The deadline to register is 21 January 2022.
“It’s not the tech, it’s how it’s used”
Digit's Co-Director, Professor Jacqueline O'Reilly has been quoted in an article in the Guardian discussing the effect of technology-enabled home working on equality and inclusion.
£123,000 awarded in Digit Innovation Fund Round 2
Projects awarded funding include research into the deployment of digital technologies in social care work and exploring disability, neurodiversity and remote working.
Latest Blogs
Is the ‘right to disconnect’ a red herring?
Right-to-disconnect policies are gaining traction but are they a distraction from the real problem—too much work?
Moving beyond lip service on work life balance: are UK workers being left behind on the right to disconnect?
As countries across Europe introduce additional protections around working time, should the UK follow in their footsteps?
‘Walsmart’: when AI hits the shop floor
A new AI-hiring system at Walmart was designed to speed up recruitment and reduce bias, but would hiring managers be willing to put their faith in the AI to choose the right person for the job?
Forthcoming events
Authoritarianism, oligarchy, localism or democracy? Alternative Futures for the Digital Transformation
23 March 2022
There are many uncertainties in the current digital transformation. In this talk, Zlatko Bodrožić, discusses how collective organisational and public policy choices point to four possible scenarios.
How fixing the digital divide will help the country level up
30 March 2022
What do you need to cross the divide as an individual and what would a digitally included nation really deliver us?
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