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Disability, neurodivergence and remote working: what employers need to know…
Dr Christine Grant and colleagues outline four steps employers can take to develop truly inclusive remote working practices.
‘They all know how to use their phones at home!’ Normalising and undervaluing digital skills in complex social care work
Kendra Briken and colleagues on how the acquisition of new digital skills by social carers goes unrecognised, undervalued and unrewarded by managers.
Industry 4.0 and the role of human resource managers
This Innovation Fund project explores the extent to which HR managers pursue, support or enable ‘good work’ outcomes from the implementation of digital technologies in Industry 4.0.
The Digitalisation of Access Work: fiction to policy recommendations
This Innovation Fund project explores how access workers' expertise and practices are changing due to the digitalisation of work.
Crowdwork in the creative industry: the case of subscription crowdfunding
This Innovation Fund project investigates the employment opportunities that subscription crowdfunding provides to creators and how funds are generated and distributed.
Beyond organisational boundaries: Open source digital infrastructure in the delivery of products and services
How, when and why do different organisations use OS digital infrastructure to deliver product and services?
Four new projects supported in Digit’s third round of Innovation Funding
The projects will explore crowdfunded work in creative industries, the use of open source digital infrastructure, the digitalisation of access work and the role of HR managers in creating 'good work' through digitalisation.
“Will you give us a phone if we do this survey?” Surveying digital gaps through digital means
How should research methodologies be adapted to engage and reward participants with digital access restrictions?
Barriers to Employment Service digitalisation?
What factors are influencing the adoption of digital tools by employment services and do they overcome, or replicate, existing challenges for users?
Virtually the same thing as in-person internships? Mapping the virtual internship landscape and exploring intern and employer experience in the UK and Italy
Virtual (remote, online, or e-) internships have recently increased in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. This Innovation Fund project explores this growing but under- researched area through student intern and employer experience in two contrasting institutional contexts: the UK and Italy. In Italy, placements and internships are typically part [...]