Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit)

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).

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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.

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Agile Working and Wellbeing in the Digital Age

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Emma Russell's new book is soon to be published.

Sam Roscoe gave evidence at the House of Commons International Trade Committee inquiry

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Digit's Sam Roscoe was invited to provide oral evidence to the House of Commons International Trade Committee inquiry in April.

5 successful awards of the Digit Innovation Fund

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The Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) is pleased to announce the outcome of the 1st round of the Digit Innovation Fund.

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Civil Service Mental Health Conference

8 October 2020 to 13 October 2020

ESRC Festival of Social Science

7 November 2020 to 15 November 2020

10th Marie Jahoda Winter School of Sociology: “Research and Activism”

25 January 2021 to 29 January 2021

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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