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
5 successful awards of the Digit Innovation Fund
The Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) is pleased to announce the outcome of the 1st round of the Digit Innovation Fund.
Remote Work Can Actually Flip the Power Dynamic With Your Boss
Dr. Emma Russell contributes to this article about how video can break down hierarchies by bringing people into each other’s worlds more fully.
From Emergency to Empowerment – special Soldo report featuring Digit researchers
A new Special Report from Soldo discussing the future of hybrid-remote working
Forthcoming events
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
Work, Employment and Society Conference 2020 - postponed until early September 2021
1 September 2021
Cardiff, Wales
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