Related Projects

To supplement the initial ESRC investment in the £8 million centre researchers have also secured additional funding from a range of sources for related projects that are housed within the Digit centre. The aim of these related projects is to provide catalysts initiatives to encourage interdisciplinary, international and policy focused knowledge.

• • Humans in Digital Logistics (HuLog).
    This project examines the digitally-driven transformation of warehousing work in four European countries.
  • Delivering net-zero solutions on a global scale through innovative Distributed Ledger Technology enabled smart platform for remanufactured goods.
    This project explores the facilitation of trade growth to handle end of life products and the achievement of net-zero targets by reducing supply chain stress and costs.

• • Digital platforms’ role in re-skilling healthcare professionals for Covid-19 recovery
    The study explores whether and how digital platforms can be used as a rapid intervention to re-skill healthcare workers in emergencies.
  • Business models and working conditions of Chinese digital freight platforms
    This project examines innovations in the Chinese digital road freight platforms and their impact on the road freight market and drivers.
  • Where Automated Job Interviews Fall ShortThis project explores how HR departments and technology companies could improve on the interview experience when using automated interviews with job seekers.
  • agiLab
    Through collaboration between academics and practitioners, agiLab participates to develop more flexible ways of meeting the needs of workers, patients and society.
  • Leading an Agile Workforce in the NHS
    This project explores the move into agile-working for NHS staff and how to lead an increasingly agile NHS workforce.
  • Patterns of Digital Platform Employment and Regulatory Implications
    This project explores the plausibility of introducing a regulatory strategy for registering digital platforms by types. It also examined digital platform labour disputes in court and how to better protect the rights and interests of platform labour service providers.
  • Understanding problematic email use
    This project seeks to understand the drivers of problematic email behaviours.
  • Labour mobility in transition: a multi-actor study of the re-regulation of migrant work in ‘low-skilled’ sectors
    The research will look at how the actions of stakeholders (employers, employer representatives, unions, civil society groups, migrant support groups and migrant workers) and social dialogue shapes new patterns of labour mobility and changes in employment practices.
  • Music Creators’ Earnings in the Streaming Era
    This project seeks to provide objective evidence regarding the degree to which music streaming is providing fair payments to music creators of various kinds.
  • Digital Connections and Inclusion in Brighton and Hove: A response to the COVID pandemic
    The rapid digitization of services and activities across social and economic life during the COVID-19 pandemic (especially in its early months) provided us a snapshot of what a hyper-digital world might look at.
  • Skills Commission Inquiry: Career transitions and development in a challenging labour market
    This research project will contribute towards our understanding of the interplay between further education (FE) and higher education (HE), and how pathways between them may be strengthened to provide social mobility and economic benefits to local populations.
  • Poverty, vulnerability and crime: What does COVID-19 mean for Nigerian street vendors?
    This research project will explore the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on Nigerian street vendors, focusing on their socioeconomic experiences (e.g., loss of income and hunger), coping strategies and susceptibility to crime. The project will also explore street vendors’ perspective on what government and policymakers can do to assist them urgently.
  • COVID-19 and impact on employment in developing countries in Asia
    This project aims to understand the role of governments, employers and trade unions as key stakeholders in the field of employment in selected Asian developing countries in combating the impact of COVID-19 on employment to maintain economic development and social wellbeing of the workers and their family.
  • Welfare at a (Social) Distance
    Welfare at a (Social) Distance is a major national research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to COVID-19.
  • Connected Care Project: Co-creating Connected and Intelligent Care Homes for People with Dementia
    Connected Care aims to address three main challenges that care homes for people living with dementia currently face.
  • Bringing Environmental Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags to Market
    The Innovation Fellow will examine the employment consequences of the development, adoption and implementation of innovative environmentally friendly digital technologies; in this case RFID tags in the retail sector.
  • EUROSHIP: Closing gaps in social citizenship. New tools to foster social resilience in Europe
    EUROSHIP will provide a new, gender-sensitive, comparative knowledge about the effectiveness of changing social protection policies targeted at reducing poverty and social exclusion in Europe.
  • The impact of harassment reporting technology on organisational accountability and psychological safety in the workplace
    The project will contain an initial mapping of the relational complexity between the abuse of power, working environment, organisational culture and accessibility of harassment reporting technology.