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
Call for papers: Special Issue on digital work in healthcare
The issue will seek to understand what can be learnt from previous manifestations of digital healthcare work.
Round 2 Digit Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellowships announced
Digit has awarded five new Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellowships for 2023.
Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology cites Digit-funded research
Research into the remote e-working experiences of Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers, supported by Digit's Innovation Fund, has been cited in a new briefing from the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology.
Latest Blogs
Four ways digital technologies are changing strategy-making
Enabled by digital technologies, so-called ‘open strategy’ initiatives are showing greater transparency and inclusion.
Mapping protest in platform work: Introducing the new Leeds Index of Platform Worker Protest
The Leeds Index tracks where protests takes place, against which companies and over what grievances.
Which skills are the skills of the future? That might depend on you!
Fabian Stephany on why the value of learning a new skill is relative, as it depends on what we already know.
Latest Publications
Gender Inequalities in Digital India: A survey on digital literacy, access, and use
Islam, A. and Manchanda, P. (2023), Digit Working Paper No. 5
The US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism
Steven Rolf and Seth Schindler (2023), Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
China’s Regulations on Algorithms
Steven Rolf (2023), Friedrich Ebert Siftung Future of Work Policy Briefing
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time
Matthew Cole, Mark Stuart, Kate Hardy and David Spencer (2022), Work, Employment and Society
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