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).
Digit Debates
Our Digit Debates webinar series returns in February with six talks from leading thinkers about how digital technologies are changing work.
Topics include the ethics of AI, workplace surveillance and protecting workers in a digital age and AI and equality and employment law.
The talks run online every Wednesday, 1-2pm (GMT) online, from 03 February to 17 March, 2021. Follow the link below to find out more and register.
Latest news
Digit Research Fellows write blog around digital exclusion
Digit Research Fellows Becky Faith and Kevin Hernandez have written a blog which looks at the current crisis of digital exclusion in hyper connected times.
Digit PhD Studentships announced!
Digit is offering two studentships, with a stipend & covering fees, starting in 2021, on digital adoption in business or retail.
Digit’s Astrid Krenz discusses automation and reshoring on Twenty Twenty podcast
Digit Research Fellow Dr Astrid Krenz discussed the connections between automation and reshoring production practices by firms.
Forthcoming events
10th Marie Jahoda Winter School of Sociology: “Research and Activism” - online event
25 January 2021 to 28 January 2021
Decoding employment status
3 February 2021
Why the world needs to worry about the ethics of AI
10 February 2021
The geo-politics of artificial intelligence
24 February 2021
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