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29 March 2023 |
Counter-hegemonic Neoliberalism? Making sense of EU platform regulationPhilipp Staab explores EU platform regulation and how it relates to the historical trajectory of the platform economy and established path dependencies within the EU. |
8 March 2023 |
Women in TechProfessor Heather Haveman discusses recent findings from her research on work-life balance and gender inequality in the tech sector. |
23 November 2022 |
Working from home after COVID-19Pawel Adrjan asks how increasing and declining pandemic severity has influenced advertised telework from 2019 to today? |
16 November 2022 |
Shaping the Future of Work: An Activist Research AgendaProfessor Thomas Kochan asks how researchers can take an activist role in studying how to best design and use technology for the common good. |
9 November 2022 |
Restarting the future: how to fix the intangible economyJonathan Haskel discusses how the vital institutions that underpin our economy remain geared to an outmoded way of doing business and presents new ideas to help us catch up with the intangible revolution. |
2 November 2022 |
Digital Levelling Up in SussexDr Becky Faith asks who is being left behind by the digital transformation and how can we imagine a more inclusive digital future for Sussex? |
12 October 2022 |
Can we talk about strategic Human Resource Management in the gig economy?Professor Fang Lee Cooke provides an overview of research on digitally enabled gig employment and the implications for human resource management research and practice. |
15 June 2022 |
Skills for the Planetary Labour Market – Indian Workers in the Platform EconomyHow can governmental, private and third-sector skills training approaches be adapted to meet the needs of Indian cloudworkers? |
8 June 2022 |
Automating job interviews: Experiences and implications for job seekersHow do asynchronous video interviews affect the behaviour of young job seekers during interviews, and their post-interview perceptions of self and work? |
25 May 2022 |
The covid pandemic and the resurgence of the shorter working weekEarly reflections on ongoing research investigating the rapidly-growing number of employer-led experiments with the ‘4 Day Week’, following the Covid pandemic. |
18 May 2022 |
Authoritarianism, oligarchy, localism or democracy? Alternative Futures for the Digital TransformationHow can four scenarios for the future trajectory of the digital transformation help us trace and understand the future trajectory of the digital transformation? |
4 May 2022 |
The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the SocialHow the ubiquitous language of ranking and scoring has changed profoundly our perception of value and status. |
30 March 2022 |
How fixing the digital divide will help the country level upWhat do you need to cross the divide as an individual and what would a digitally included nation really deliver us? |
16 March 2022 |
Is AI taking our jobs? Lessons from a survey of UK business leadersWhat can a survey of UK business leaders tell us about the impact of AI on jobs? |
9 March 2022 |
Threat or opportunity? (Social) media perspectives on AI and the future of workWhat can online discussions about AI and the future of work tell us about how the impacts and possible futures are understood? |
23 February 2022 |
Can HR adapt to artificial intelligence?How can the HR profession shape the future to put fairness and ethics at the heart of AI development and use? |
24 November 2021 |
Digit Debates: Do workers need a legal right to disconnect?Our Digit Debates Right to Disconnect panel, comprised of experts from law, academia, trade unionism and journalism, discuss whether workers should have the right to disconnect. |
17 November 2021 |
Digit Debates: Connectivity – OECD perspectives and policies to expand network coverage and qualityIn this Digit Debate, Verena Weber, Head of the Communication Infrastructures and Policy Unit at the OECD, discusses current state of communications infrastructures and the policies that can help expand network coverage and quality. |
10 November 2021 |
Digit Debates: Mind the gap: Digital platforms and the future of social and employment protectionsDigit’s Steve Rolf and Marc Meryon from Eversheds Sutherland present their Digit Debate on digital platforms and the future of social employment protections |
3 November 2021 |
Digit Debates: Diversity and Digital Exclusion: developing an inclusive agenda for digital futures at worktechUK’s Nimmi Patel presents her Digit Debate on developing an inclusive agenda for digital futures at work. |
20 October 2021 |
Digit Debates: The Gender Wage Gap in an Online Labour Market: The Cost of InterruptionsProfessor Abi Adams-Prassl presents her Digit Debate on the gender wage gap in an online labour market. |
14 September 2021 to 16 September 2021 |
Digit Summer School 2021The theme for Digit’s 2021 Summer School is digital transformations and Global Value Chains. |
25 August 2021 to 27 August 2021 |
Work, Employment and Society Conference 2021A number of Digit researchers will be presenting papers at the Work, Employment and Society Conference. |
16 June 2021 |
Digit Debates: How does labour market digitalization affect social mobility?Professor Vili Lehdonvirta discusses research examining whether labour market digitalization could be decoupling inherited occupation from job quality. |
9 June 2021 |
Digit Debates: Pandemic, Performance and the Pace of WorkProfessor Abigail Marks discusses findings from her Working@Home research project following the experiences of 80 ‘new’ homeworkers during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
26 May 2021 |
Digit Debates: Live from the farm: How Chinese video apps are changing the global development landscapeProfessor Xiaolan Fu explores how Thai durian growers and Rwandan coffee sellers are becoming microcelebrities in China and elsewhere using short form video apps. |
19 May 2021 |
Digit Debates: Automation and the End of Work?Dr Aaron Benanav considers the relationship between automation and demand for labour. |
12 May 2021 |
Digit Debates: Platform firms and the restructuring of workProfessor Anke Hassel discusses how platform firms are contributing to the restructuring of work. |
5 May 2021 |
Digit Debates: Technology & Transformations in US RetailProfessor Chris Tilly and Professor Chris Benner consider the broader workplace implications of the growth of e-commerce, particularly the recent grocery and meal e-commerce surge. |
17 March 2021 |
Digit Debates: Algorithmic workplace surveillanceAida Ponce Del Castillo discusses Algorithmic workplace surveillance. |
10 March 2021 |
Digit Debates: What to do? Almost everything about us, is happening without usDee Masters and Robin Allen QC discuss their recent work mapping the way current equality and employment laws apply to the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the workplace. |
3 March 2021 |
Digit Debates: Protecting workers in the digital ageJanine Berg argues that debates on the future of work have focused far too much attention on possible job losses, ignoring the deterioration in job quality experienced by many of the world’s workers. |
24 February 2021 |
Digit Debates: The geo-politics of artificial intelligenceAlexandra Mousavizadeh discusses Tortoise’s Global AI Index, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence. |
10 February 2021 |
Digit Debates: Why the world needs to worry about the ethics of AISimon Greenman discusses the risks and challenges of AI and argues that it can only live up to its potential benefits if people can trust in its use. |
3 February 2021 |
Digit Debates: Decoding employment statusSimon Deakin discusses the classification of work relations. |
25 January 2021 to 28 January 2021 |
10th Marie Jahoda Winter School of Sociology: “Research and Activism” – online eventThe Marie Jahoda Winter School 2021 “Research and Activism” will address the interrelationship between both scientific and political activism in the 21st century and under the conditions of the digital age. |
9 December 2020 |
Digit Debates: How can online employee reviews help firms to innovate?Nachiappan Subramanian discusses how online employee reviews can help firms innovate as part of the Digit Debates series. |
2 December 2020 |
Digit Debates: Perspectives on the future in the sociology of workProfessor Duncan Gallie considers what we can learn from past predictions about the future of work. |
25 November 2020 |
Digit Debates: A typlology of crowdwork platformsProfessor Debra Howcroft provides a timely review and classification of crowdwork. |
18 November 2020 |
Digit Debates: What do platforms do? Beyond the pro-con debate on gig labourProfessor Juliet Schor discusses new research on platforms in the post-covid period to ask—what do platforms do? |
13 November 2020 |
Young people and employment in a digital agePart of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2020. |
11 November 2020 |
Digit Debates: The digital lives of black women in Britain: Between creativity, community and commodificationDr Francesca Sobande explores the tensions between digital culture’s communal, counter-cultural, and commercial qualities, focusing on how these matters are shaped by intersecting anti-blackness, sexism, and other forms of entangled oppression. |
9 November 2020 |
Digital Brighton & Hove Employment Project: exploring connections and exclusion in employment and jobseekingPart of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2020. |
7 November 2020 to 15 November 2020 |
ESRC Festival of Social ScienceThe 2020 Festival of Social Science (FoSS 2020) will be a digital-first event, to be held from 07-15 November 2020. |
4 November 2020 |
Digit Debates: Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argumentProfessor David Hesmondhalgh considers the claim that that music streaming has made it harder than before for musicians to make a living from music. |
8 October 2020 to 13 October 2020 |
Civil Service Mental Health ConferenceDigit’s Dr Emma Russell has been asked to present a session on the ‘always-on’ culture at the Civil Service Mental Health Conference (open to all 445,000 civil servants). |
30 July 2020 |
A Brave New World: The Future of Work – a Sussex Alumni eventProfessor Jackie O’Reilly will be speaking at a Sussex Alumni event. |
18 July 2020 to 20 July 2020 |
SASE Conference 2020Amsterdam, Netherlands More details on SASE website. |
8 July 2020 to 10 July 2020 |
2020 ISS (International Schumpeter Society) ConferenceRome, Italy The biennial conference of the International Schumpeter Society will be held in 2020 in Rome, Italy and hosted in the campus of LUISS University for three days, July 8-10, 2020. The Schumpeter Prize dinner will be held on July 9th. |
2 July 2020 |
Sam Roscoe on the panel for a session by Delaware Consulting Group about Supply Chain Resilience during Covid 19Sam Roscoe has been invited to appear on a panel at the Delaware Supply Chain Support Forum, Episode #3 |
23 April 2020 |
Sam Roscoe from Digit has been invited to give evidence to the International Trade Select Committee |
22 April 2020 |
Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change seminarNew Technologies at Work: Situated Knowledge, Collaboration and Voice |
1 April 2020 to 3 April 2020 |
CANCELLED – Journal of Management Studies Conference 2020Birmingham, United Kingdom The Future of Work: conference sponsored by Journal of Management Studies & Society for Advancement of Management Studies. |
30 March 2020 to 3 April 2020 |
Eu-SPRI Early Career Research and PhD Training SchoolFalmer, United Kingdom Call for applications: EU SPRI Spring School 2020 Transformative Innovation for Sustainability and Post-industrial Industrial Policy http://euspri-forum.eu/eu-spri-early-career-research-and-phd-training-school-30-march-3-april-2020/
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5 February 2020 |
Prof Jackie O’Reilly gives lecture on ‘International comparisons of work in the digital age’Bristol, United Kingdom Public lecture organised by Digital Societies, The Digital Futures Research Group, University of Bristol |
30 January 2020 |
Digit launch meetingLondon, United Kingdom Details to follow. |
16 January 2020 to 17 January 2020 |
Disrupting technology: contextualising continuity and change in technology, work and employmentLeeds, United Kingdom Two-day conference hosted by the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC). |
27 November 2019 |
Working Identities report launchLondon, United Kingdom Working Identities offers a unique, cross-sector insight into the changing world of work and its wide-ranging impacts on individuals and wider society. It presents a series of practical, policy-focused recommendations for promoting progress towards more peaceful, open and inclusive societies. The launch will begin with reflections from Dr Selenko, followed by a short panel discussion to highlight and respond to its key themes and recommendations. Guest panellists are:
Full details on the Cumberland Lodge website |
19 November 2019 to 22 November 2019 |
WSI Autumn ForumBerlin, Germany Full details in WSI Herbstforum 2019 Programm (PDF, in German). |
19 November 2019 to 20 November 2019 |
Digit’s Professor Jackie O’Reilly presents at the WSI Herbstforum 2019Berlin, Germany This week Prof Jackie O’Reilly presented at the WSI Herbstforum 2019 which is organised by the Hans Böckler Foundation. |
2 November 2019 to 9 November 2019 |
ESRC Festival of Social ScienceVarious loctions, United Kingdom 450 events across the UK. |
23 October 2019 |
Nesta conference: ‘Working Better’London, United Kingdom Using data and design to create an inclusive, future-oriented system for jobs and skills. |