Digital Futures at Work Research Centre
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sussex
Department Name: University of Sussex Business School
Abstract
The Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Dig.IT) will establish itself as an essential resource for those wanting to understand how new digital technologies are profoundly reshaping the world of work. Digitalisation is a topical feature of contemporary debate. For evangelists, technology offers new opportunities for those seeking work and increased flexibility and autonomy for those in work. More pessimistic visions, in contrast, see a future where jobs are either destroyed by robots or degraded through increasingly precarious contracts and computerised monitoring. Take Uber as an example: the company claims it is creating opportunities for self-employed entrepreneurs; while workers' groups increasingly challenge such claims through legal means to improve their rights at work.
While such positive and pessimistic scenarios abound of an increasingly fragmented, digitalised and flexible transformation of work across the globe, theoretical understanding of contemporary developments remains underdeveloped and systematic empirical analyses are lacking. We know, for example, that employers and governments are struggling to cope with and understand the pace and consequences of digital change, while individuals face new uncertainties over how to become and stay 'connected' in turbulent labour markets. Yet, we have no real understanding of what it means to be a 'connected worker' in an increasing 'connected' economy. Drawing resources from different academic fields of study, Dig.IT will provide an empirically innovative and international broad body of knowledge that will offer authoritative insights into the impact of digitalisation on the future of work.
The Dig.IT centre will be jointly led by the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, supported by leading experts from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Manchester and Monash Universities. Its core research programme will cover four broad-ranging research themes. Theme one will set the conceptual and quantitative base for the centre's activities. Theme two involves a large-scale survey of Employers' Digital Practices at Work. Theme three involves qualitative research on employers' and employees' experiences of digitalisation at work across 4 sectors (Creative industries, Business Services, Consumer Services, Public Services). Theme 4 examines how the disconnected attempt to reconnect, through Public Employment Services, the growth of new types of self-employment, platform work and workers' responses to building new forms of voice and representation in an international context. Specific projects include:
1. The Impact of Digitalisation on Work and Employment
-Conceptualising digital futures, historically, regionally and internationally
-Comparative regulation of digital employment
- Mapping regional and international trends of digital technology and work
2. Employers' Digital Practices at Work Survey
3. Employers' and employees' experiences of digital work across sectors
-Changing management processes and practices
-Workers' experiences of digital transformation
4. Reconnecting the disconnected: new channels of voice and representation
- displaced workers, job search and the public employment service
- self-employment, interest representation and voice
Dig.IT will establish a Data Observatory on digital futures at work to promote our findings through an interactive website, report on a series of methodological seminars and new experimental methods and deliver extensive outreach activities. It will act as a one-platform library of resources at the forefront of research on digital work and will establish itself as a focal point for decision-makers across the policy spectrum, connecting with industrial strategy, employment and welfare policy. It will also manage an Innovation Fund designed to fund novel research ideas, from across the academic community as they emerge over the life course of the centre.
While such positive and pessimistic scenarios abound of an increasingly fragmented, digitalised and flexible transformation of work across the globe, theoretical understanding of contemporary developments remains underdeveloped and systematic empirical analyses are lacking. We know, for example, that employers and governments are struggling to cope with and understand the pace and consequences of digital change, while individuals face new uncertainties over how to become and stay 'connected' in turbulent labour markets. Yet, we have no real understanding of what it means to be a 'connected worker' in an increasing 'connected' economy. Drawing resources from different academic fields of study, Dig.IT will provide an empirically innovative and international broad body of knowledge that will offer authoritative insights into the impact of digitalisation on the future of work.
The Dig.IT centre will be jointly led by the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, supported by leading experts from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Manchester and Monash Universities. Its core research programme will cover four broad-ranging research themes. Theme one will set the conceptual and quantitative base for the centre's activities. Theme two involves a large-scale survey of Employers' Digital Practices at Work. Theme three involves qualitative research on employers' and employees' experiences of digitalisation at work across 4 sectors (Creative industries, Business Services, Consumer Services, Public Services). Theme 4 examines how the disconnected attempt to reconnect, through Public Employment Services, the growth of new types of self-employment, platform work and workers' responses to building new forms of voice and representation in an international context. Specific projects include:
1. The Impact of Digitalisation on Work and Employment
-Conceptualising digital futures, historically, regionally and internationally
-Comparative regulation of digital employment
- Mapping regional and international trends of digital technology and work
2. Employers' Digital Practices at Work Survey
3. Employers' and employees' experiences of digital work across sectors
-Changing management processes and practices
-Workers' experiences of digital transformation
4. Reconnecting the disconnected: new channels of voice and representation
- displaced workers, job search and the public employment service
- self-employment, interest representation and voice
Dig.IT will establish a Data Observatory on digital futures at work to promote our findings through an interactive website, report on a series of methodological seminars and new experimental methods and deliver extensive outreach activities. It will act as a one-platform library of resources at the forefront of research on digital work and will establish itself as a focal point for decision-makers across the policy spectrum, connecting with industrial strategy, employment and welfare policy. It will also manage an Innovation Fund designed to fund novel research ideas, from across the academic community as they emerge over the life course of the centre.
Planned Impact
The impact objectives are to:
1. Generate new co-produced knowledge about digital technology at work to inform the government's Industrial Strategy and business practice.
2. Develop an analytical framework around the concept of the 'connected worker' and the 'connected economy'.
3. Provide a strong career development programme for mid and early career researchers.
4. Develop a Masters programme in HR Analytics.
The mechanisms employed to contribute to a shift in policy and practice will be achieved by building strong networks with relevant businesses, policy and civil society communities, through international visiting exchange fellowships, doctoral internships at government departments, with the Low Pay Commission and selected businesses. This impact strategy will enhance the long-term sustainability of the centre strengthening our capacity with a substantial body of mid- and early career researchers and embedding this knowledge in our teaching programme.
Policy makers, such as government departments (DWP, BEIS) and agencies (LPC, ACAS) and bodies such as the CIPD, will benefit from understanding the catalysts and barriers to business adoption of digital technologies at work and their consequences for productivity, job quality and employment effects. We will provide evidence for future policies. Businesses will benefit from understanding developments in their sectors, the facilitators and impediments, pitfalls and advantages of adopting digital technologies. This should lead to the consideration of which practices and government policies would be most beneficial.
Unions will benefit from monitoring trends and their consequences in different sectors. This will help to raise awareness among disparate unionised and non-unionised groups as to how policy could be developed to improve the quality of digital employment.
Community organisations will benefit from understanding the digital skills requirements for young people looking for work and for the self-employed. Our research and engagement will raise awareness amongst organisations of young people about the challenges they face and the skills they need.
International research organisations, such as Pew, Eurofound, ILO, will benefit from sharing knowledge on methods of how to measure and evaluate the consequences of the emerging digitalisation of work.
Immediate beneficiaries will be those who are participating on the advisory board who will be involved in the co-production of the research and interpreting the initial findings. Through their networks and involvement in dissemination, this will have a medium to longer-term impact on their broader communities, both within the UK and internationally. Advisory Board members have been closely consulted in the preparation of the bid and represent a selection of some of the leading businesses and public sector organisations affected by the digital transformation of work, alongside trade unions, key international research organisations and academic advisors. The board will advise on the design of the employer survey, facilitate access to organisations for the sector case studies and help with dissemination of the results. They will annually review and advise on the output from the centre.
The Impact and Communications Officer will facilitate communications about the centre from its inception. This work will be supported in year 2 onwards by a Media Fellow (professional journalist) who will write policy-focused summaries of our research findings in a widely accessible form. This will attract additional interest from a broader community in the medium to long-term who will be able to register for newsletters and access multi-media resources via the website and the Data Observatory.
1. Generate new co-produced knowledge about digital technology at work to inform the government's Industrial Strategy and business practice.
2. Develop an analytical framework around the concept of the 'connected worker' and the 'connected economy'.
3. Provide a strong career development programme for mid and early career researchers.
4. Develop a Masters programme in HR Analytics.
The mechanisms employed to contribute to a shift in policy and practice will be achieved by building strong networks with relevant businesses, policy and civil society communities, through international visiting exchange fellowships, doctoral internships at government departments, with the Low Pay Commission and selected businesses. This impact strategy will enhance the long-term sustainability of the centre strengthening our capacity with a substantial body of mid- and early career researchers and embedding this knowledge in our teaching programme.
Policy makers, such as government departments (DWP, BEIS) and agencies (LPC, ACAS) and bodies such as the CIPD, will benefit from understanding the catalysts and barriers to business adoption of digital technologies at work and their consequences for productivity, job quality and employment effects. We will provide evidence for future policies. Businesses will benefit from understanding developments in their sectors, the facilitators and impediments, pitfalls and advantages of adopting digital technologies. This should lead to the consideration of which practices and government policies would be most beneficial.
Unions will benefit from monitoring trends and their consequences in different sectors. This will help to raise awareness among disparate unionised and non-unionised groups as to how policy could be developed to improve the quality of digital employment.
Community organisations will benefit from understanding the digital skills requirements for young people looking for work and for the self-employed. Our research and engagement will raise awareness amongst organisations of young people about the challenges they face and the skills they need.
International research organisations, such as Pew, Eurofound, ILO, will benefit from sharing knowledge on methods of how to measure and evaluate the consequences of the emerging digitalisation of work.
Immediate beneficiaries will be those who are participating on the advisory board who will be involved in the co-production of the research and interpreting the initial findings. Through their networks and involvement in dissemination, this will have a medium to longer-term impact on their broader communities, both within the UK and internationally. Advisory Board members have been closely consulted in the preparation of the bid and represent a selection of some of the leading businesses and public sector organisations affected by the digital transformation of work, alongside trade unions, key international research organisations and academic advisors. The board will advise on the design of the employer survey, facilitate access to organisations for the sector case studies and help with dissemination of the results. They will annually review and advise on the output from the centre.
The Impact and Communications Officer will facilitate communications about the centre from its inception. This work will be supported in year 2 onwards by a Media Fellow (professional journalist) who will write policy-focused summaries of our research findings in a widely accessible form. This will attract additional interest from a broader community in the medium to long-term who will be able to register for newsletters and access multi-media resources via the website and the Data Observatory.
Organisations
- University of Sussex (Lead Research Organisation)
- World Commerce & Contracting (Collaboration)
- COVENTRY UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Grant Thornton (Collaboration)
- Youth Employment UK (Collaboration)
- WEST OF ENGLAND COMBINED AUTHORITY (Collaboration)
- COVENTRY CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- Boston College (Collaboration)
- Advanced Material Development (Collaboration)
- Goldsmiths University of London (Collaboration)
- Trades Union Congress (TUC) (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- International Labour Organization (ILO) (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (Collaboration)
- Eversheds Sutherland LLP (Collaboration)
- LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY (Collaboration)
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Collaboration)
- BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council (Collaboration)
- FDM Group (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Bristol City Council (Collaboration)
- Green Templeton College (Collaboration)
- British Academy of Management (BAM) (Collaboration)
- NESTA (Collaboration)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD (Collaboration)
- Vodafone (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- TechUK (Collaboration)
- University of Melbourne (Collaboration)
- Social Science Research Center Berlin (Collaboration)
- Walmart (Collaboration)
- Ernst and Young LLP (Collaboration)
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: (Collaboration)
- Monash University (Collaboration)
Publications
Aljabr N
(2021)
After-hours connectivity management strategies in academic work
in New Technology, Work and Employment
Azzellini D
(2021)
Why isn't there an Uber for live music? The digitalisation of intermediaries and the limits of the platform economy
in New Technology, Work and Employment
Azzellini D
(2022)
Why platform capitalism is not the future of work
in Work in the Global Economy
Balderson U
(2020)
An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work
in Time & Society
Bartram T
(2021)
Celebrating the 60 th anniversary of the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources : what has been achieved and what more can be done
in Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
Basahal A
(2021)
Labour market localisation policies and organizational responses: an analysis of the aims and effects of the Saudi Nitaqat reforms
in International Journal of Organizational Analysis
Baym N
(2021)
Making Sense of Metrics in the Music Industries
in International Journal of Communication
Berg J
(2023)
Risks to job quality from digital technologies: Are industrial relations in Europe ready for the challenge?
in European Journal of Industrial Relations
Bosworth G
(2023)
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside
in Journal of Rural Studies
| Description | *Significant new knowledge generated* Digit's "Employers' digital practices at work survey" is a major new survey of 2,000 managers that will provide evidence about how and why technologies are being implemented at work and their impacts. This research has been led by Danat Valizade, Felix Schulz, Mark Stuart, Manhal Ali (all Leeds), Brendan Burchell (Cambridge), and Richard Dickens (Sussex). Fieldwork has been completed and addresses: • How and why different technologies are, or are not, being implemented, at work; • How technological investment has changed; • The business rationale for digital investment; • The impact of such change on the key dimensions of work outlined above; and • Indicators of business performance. The initial results are being launched in a report (Spring 2023) and will have implications for UK and regional policy, and for stakeholders such as the CIPD, CBI, as well as individual businesses. The Leeds Index of Platform Worker Protest, involving Simon Joyce, Mark Stuart, Ioulia Bessa and Charles Umney, in collaboration with Digit Associate Fellow Vera Trappmann and Digit PhD student Denis Neumann (all Leeds), provides the first truly global data set on platform worker organisation and mobilisation, drawing on press reports around the world. The Leeds Index has attracted interest and commissions from the ETUI (European Trade Union Institute for Research), FES (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation) and the ILO (international Labour Organisation). The impact of the Leeds Index will be strengthened by expanding and automating the dataset, working in conjunction with external partners such as FES and the ILO. The associated publications and outputs are found on the Digit website: https://digit-research.org/research/research-projects/leeds-index-of-platform-labour-protest/ Key findings include: • In the period January 2017 to July 2020, 1,271 instances of worker protest in four platform sectors were identified: ride-hailing, food delivery, courier services and grocery delivery. • in this period, the single most important cause of platform worker protest was pay, with other protested issues including employment status, and health and safety. • In most global regions, strikes, log-offs and demonstrations predominated as a form of protest. • Platform worker protests showed a strong tendency to be driven from below by worker self-organization, although trade unions also had an important presence in some parts of the world. • From the four platform sectors examined, ride-hailing and food delivery accounted for most protest events. • Although the growth of platform worker organization is remarkable, formal collective bargaining is uncommon, as is formal employment, with ad hoc self-organized groups of workers dominating labour protest across the different sectors, particularly in the global South. A launch of the Index is taking place in London on 27 March 2023. There are also plans to make the Index visible using a commissioned online map. *New or improved research methods or skills developed* Due to the pandemic, many of our researchers have had to adopt new methods and learn new skills for data gathering. For example, our planned Walmart Internships were meant to be onside in Arkansas, USA in the summer of 2020. Due to travel restrictions related to Covid-19 pandemic, Walmart proposed that the interviews be moved online. At the time, this was a very novel method of data collection. Therefore, Research Fellow Wil Hunt (Sussex) and Innovation Fellow Nikki Stopford (Sussex) obtained Ethics approval from Sussex, and arranged and conducted in-depth semi-structured online interviews with a variety of staff at Walmart (14 people for Wil, 11 people for Nikki) and derived useful data, producing two Digit Working Papers and two Digit Blogs. Prof Simon Deakin and his Digit team in Cambridge, including Research Assistant Louise Bishop and Bhumika Billa and more recently Research Fellow Kamelia Pourkermani, have been working on the CBR leximetric database, designed to provide information to policy makers on the state of labour laws around the world. It uses an original coding template to generate data on the strength of worker protection across countries, thereby facilitating statistical analysis on the economic effects of labour laws. The coding method fills gaps in existing knowledge, given the limits of other indices or datasets, such as those of the World Bank Doing Business Report (discontinued in 2021 because of concerns over methodology) and the OECD (which covers a small number of countries and fewer years). Development under Digit has seen the CBR Labour Regulation Index updated to cover labour laws in 117 countries between 1970 and 2020 (previously it went up to 2013), which will be launched in 2023. *Particularly noteworthy new research networks/collaborations/partnerships, or combinations of these* Digit colleagues Jacqueline O'Reilly and Steve Rolf (both Sussex) co-produced research with Marc Meryon, Partner and Head of Industrial Relations at multinational law firm Eversheds Sutherland to generate new knowledge about social and employment protections in the platform economy, which resulted in a journal publication, webinar, blogs, and ongoing discussions via Eversheds Sutherland membership of the Digit Advisory Board. nowle nowle Digit was contracted as the UK partner in an international OECD study exploring the impacts of AI on the workplace in the financial services (Mark Stuart and Esme Terry - Leeds) and manufacturing sectors (Jacqueline O'Reilly, Wil Hunt & Steve Rolf - Sussex). There were several other international partners in this project from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan and the US. The report will be launched at the end of March 2023, and will inform OECD policy recommendations on the regulation of AI. Digit colleagues Brendan Burchell and David Frayne (both Cambridge) co-produced a report on the 4-day week trials with think tank & independent research organisation Autonomy, as well as academic partners in Cambridge, Boston College, UCD, Salford and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The collaboration released their report & related outputs (e.g. video) in early 2023, which results in extensive media coverage. One finding from the report, was that 'of the 61 companies that participated, 56 are continuing with the four-day week (90%), with 18 confirming the policy is a permanent change' (https://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/The-results-are-in-The-UKs-four-day-week-pilot.pdf). There are further plans for dissemination and collaboration, including within Digit, as several other researchers in the Digit community working on issues around the 4 day week, and 'working time' more generally, with a special issue due to be published soon, and other publications in planning. Digit has also partnered with other organisations to collaborate with summer schools and conferences to enable capacity building for our early career researchers and Digit Doctoral Network. In 2022, Digit partnered with the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) to deliver an Early Careers Workshop in Amsterdam in July 2022. From an applicant pool of over 60 researchers, 21 were selected and funded to attend. One of those participants then went on to apply for, and was successfully awarded, a Digit Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellowship. Dr Steve Rolf, a PDRA at Digit was also involved in presenting to this workshop, along with other Digit ECRs who were involved in the selection panel. This partnership and model was a success because it enabled a wider connection with the international community beyond the UK and promoted Digit activities to the wider SASE community including 10k members, 1.5K who attended in person at the conference. We have plans to partner with them again for the an ECR workshop in 2024 in Limerick, Ireland. In 2023, Digit is collaborating with the WZB Berlin Science Center to deliver a summer school for ECRs in May 2023. In June 2023, Digit will hold an international conference on Disrupting Technology in June 2023 to be held at the Monash Centre in Prato, Italy in collaboration with Monash Business School, Australia and the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds Business School. In September 2023 in association with the British Academy of Management (BAM) Digit researchers will deliver a Doctoral Symposium at the University of Sussex. *Increased research capability generated from training delivered in specialist skills* In October and November 2021, Prof Mark Reed of 'Fast Track Impact' delivered three impact training courses to Digit researchers online. This was attended by 26 people from Digit. Their feedback reported that it was 'very comprehensive', 'systematic' and 'very, very useful spot on in terms of language'. They also cited that the impact planning templates when starting new projects were extremely useful and they had used them several times for their own projects. These impact planning resources have been made widely available to all researchers within the Digit community. To support engagement with the newly established Digit Blog site that is part of the Data Observatory, in May 2022 Emma Russell, Chris Forde and Gemma Smith) ran a workshop for mid- and early career researchers on how to write academic blogs. This was in response to ECR feedback expressing a need for training on writing for public audiences. This event was run (and recorded) on Zoom, so participants from across the Digit network could participate. The event was linked to a 'blog writing competition' to encourage engagement and provide recognition in particular for ECRs. The winning blogs of the 2022 competition (available on the Digit Blog site) were: Hong Yu Liu, with 'There is a robot doing my job! Am I doomed?' (Sept 2022, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/there-is-a-robot-doing-my-job-am-i-doomed/), and the runner-up, Laura Jarvis-King, with: 'Digital Presenteeism: The Pressure to be seen in the Virtual Office'(Feb 2023, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/digital-presenteeism-the-pressure-to-be-seen-in-the-virtual-office/). |
| Exploitation Route | In addition to the Impact we've noted (see other section), and academic outputs, and current networks that we are a part of and/or building, our ongoing, project-specific stakeholder mapping is helping us identify key people and organisations with whom we will engage to take forward the outcomes. In the field of Digital/Communication/Information Technologies, there will be key findings about digital practices that employers, employees, unions and policymakers will find useful for policy and practical implementation. As mentioned, our flagship 'Employers' digital practices at work survey' will engage with international, national and regional stakeholders to promote the findings which are intended to help understand the current landscape of the implementation of digital practices at work in a more comprehensive way than has been understood to date. In Healthcare, Digit members are engaging with specific stakeholders, e.g. NHS South-East HR Directors Network (https://digit-research.org/research/related-proje cts/agilab/) and MedicineAfrica (https://digit-research.org/publication/the-role-of-digital-health-platforms-in-re-skilling-healthca re-professionals-in-developing-countries/), about how the use of digital technologies and agile working can benefit healthcare workers and how digital health platforms can develop professionalism of healthcare community, respectively. These activities can be scaled up to other networks e.g. within the NHS. Dimitra Petrakaki, Emma Russell (both Sussex), Andy Charlwood (Leeds) and Associate Fellow Petros Chamakiotis (ESCP) are also guest editors of an upcoming Special Issue on 'Resistance, tensions and consent to digital working in healthcare' in Social Science and Medicine. With regard to Retail, after the research conducted at Walmart, there are further plans to publish the results, and take forward the emerging ideas, perhaps with Walmart or with other retail stakeholders. In addition, the research conducted by our Innovation Fund recipient Ayomikun Idowu (https://digit-research.org/digital-entrepreneursh ip-on-retail-platforms/) has resulted in several invitations from key stakeholders (e.g. Chatham House), a publication with the International Organisation of Employers. In the area of Communities and Social Services/Policy communities, and building on the work highlighted in the Impact section on digital exclusion, evidence has just been submitted (7 March 2023) to the Communications and Digital Committee (UK House of Lords) inquiry on 'Digital exclusion and the cost of living'. This aims to inform government discussions with evidenced based research about the challenges to digital inclusion and the causes of digital poverty. It also identifies examples of best practice from a range of organisations including business and community organisations. This evidence was based on a synergy of projects including Dr Rachel Verdin's work on the EU funded Euroship project along with Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly. Additionally, the work of Jo Ingold and David Robertshaw, through their Digit Innovation Fund and other ESRC funding, around the digitalisation of job-seeking and unemployment support services has produced a number of lessons for policymakers and practitioners. Regarding Government, Democracy and Justice, Steve Rolf, with Jacqueline O'Reilly and Marc Meryon (Eversheds Sutherland) investigated the social protection of gig workers. They have disseminated their findings in a publication, a webinar, blogs, and they are exploring further networks to engage with stakeholders. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail |
| URL | https://digit-research.org |
| Description | *Supporting effective public policies on digital exclusion* Digital poverty and digital exclusion are increasingly a barrier to employment, affecting access to job-seeking opportunities, welfare services and work. In their work as part of Digit's Research Theme 4 (Reconnecting the Disconnected), Dr Becky Faith and Kevin Hernandez (both IDS), as well as Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly and Associate Fellows Dr Rachel Verdin and Dr Ann McDonnell (Euroship network), have worked closely with research beneficiaries to provide insights from their research into the nature and effects of digital exclusion. This began in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic when, working with partners including Citizens Online, Dr Faith and Kevin Hernandez investigated whether existing inequalities were amplified by the digitalisation of job seeking and access to benefits and the removal of existing offline support mechanisms. Since then, Dr Faith has advised on the development of Brighton and Hove City Council's Digital Inclusion Strategy as a member of their Steering Committee (forthcoming) and has provided informal support and input on issues around digital inequalities in service provision for NHS Sussex. Dr Faith has also advised Barking & Dagenham Council on how to develop a better understanding of digital exclusion in the borough and the Scottish Government's Connecting Scotland to help think through the evaluation of their digital exclusion and employability work. These exchanges of knowledge further informed the development of Digit's first Data Commentary (https://digit-research.org/data_commentaries/measuring-digital-exclusion/) exposing the limitations of current official measures of digital exclusion. In 2022, Dr Faith has continued to collaborate with Citizens Online, supported by the British Academy, to better understand how digital poverty is affecting lower income households and what might be done to address this issue, as part of the Academy's work on Understanding Digital Poverty and Inequality in the UK. Their report has been disseminated via a British Academy evidence portal for policymakers on digital poverty and practitioners in the field and an Institute for Development Studies (IDS) Policy Brief. As a member of the newly formed Digital Poverty Alliance's DPA Expert group on ending digital poverty, Dr Faith is also contributing to their evidence base as part of their efforts to improve understanding of the issue and influence change. Working with Digit colleagues Prof O'Reilly and Associate Fellow Dr Verdin, Dr Faith submitted evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee's inquiry on 'Digital exclusion and the cost of living' in March 2023, based on findings discussed above and the Euroship findings, challenging assumptions about digital exclusion and highlighting promising policy interventions. Dr Faith and Dr Verdin will continue to engage with policymakers over the next two years to highlight the challenges of digital poverty and exclusion against the backdrop of the current cost of living. * The four-day week and the role of technology in reducing working time* As digital technologies make possible new ways of working, increasing numbers of employers are implementing or trialing a 4-day working week. In collaboration with a major trial of the 4 day week in the UK, run by the 4 day week campaign and with Autonomy, Digit researchers Professor Brendan Burchell and Dr David Frayne (Cambridge) are investigating how such changes can be implemented practically and equitably-and by a broader range of industries. Their research will offer an important evidence base for policymakers and practitioners. In particular, they aim to offer new insights into why companies are motivated to reduce working time; the role of technology; how it is implemented in practice; and the impacts of such changes for businesses and staff, including for productivity and staff wellbeing. In February 2023, the report of the findings from the trial was published in partnership with think tank Autonomy and widely disseminated to their policy and practitioner networks. They launched the report in the House of Commons, and will also do the same in the Wales Senedd, in addition to meeting with key politicians and organisations (e.g. TUC Wales). They have (and will) present findings at events and conferences, and have had significant media coverage. They also plan to produce a best-practice guide for businesses. Their work has also been supported by an additional grant from Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE). Their research is contributing to an understanding of the success of the trial, and a reshaping of public debate and thinking about how work-time reduction can play a role in improving work-life balance. *Evidenced-based policy options around digital work & skills for the EU Parliament* Digit researchers produced a report for the European Parliament's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) that argues for a new 'Digital Social Contract' to address the rapid technological progress underway in modern capitalist economies. The study, 'Digital Automation and the Future of Work', was written by David Spencer, Simon Joyce, Xanthe Whittaker and Mark Stuart (all Leeds) and Matt Cole (Sussex). It was produced at the request of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA), managed by the Scientific Foresight Unit, within the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS) of the Secretariat of the European Parliament. The report has now been published on the Parliament's website and aims to inform the Panel's discussions about future policies. The report reviews relevant literature to establish the nature, scope and possible effects of digital automation. It identifies both threats to job quality and an unequal distribution of the risks and benefits associated with digital automation. The Report (found here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/docume nt/EPRS_STU(2021)656311) has gone on to form the background of a public hearing at European Parliament (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/aida -empl-public-hearing-on-ai-and-the-l/product-detai ls/20210414CHE08703). *Providing an evidence base to inform policy deliberations on earnings from music streaming* Music streaming on digital platforms is changing the nature of work carried out by musicians and others working in the music industries. This has led to new questions about appropriate renumeration for musicians when their work is played on streaming platforms and about the impact and transparency of algorithmically driven recommendation systems on musicians' livelihoods. As part of Digit's research focused on the creative and cultural industries, Professor David Hesmondhalgh (Leeds) has investigated the implications of these changes for musicians and rights-holders, working directly with policy-makers to provide a robust evidence base to inform the consideration of changes to policy and regulation. As a result, his work is already informing Government thinking about policy in this area and is contributing to a more nuanced public understanding of the issues through coverage in national media. In 2021, his co-authored report for the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on music creators' earnings in the streaming era, informed the Government's response to the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee's Report into the "Economics of Music Streaming". The Government response described the report as "the most comprehensive study of music creators' earnings ever completed in the UK" which "provided invaluable insights into the streaming environment" and highlighted the need for further evidence. The report has also informed the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) review of fair competition in music streaming and was cited 17 times in their "Music and streaming: Final Report" (November 2022). The UK government's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) also commissioned Professor Hesmondhalgh and colleagues to produce, "The impact of algorithmically driven recommendation systems on music consumption and production - a literature review" (Feb 2023). Knowledge exchange has been an integral part of this work to understand the challenges facing different stakeholders in the music industry and musicians themselves, both through ongoing dialogue informing the research and through wide dissemination of the findings. The initial report is the IPO's most downloaded report of all time. Supported in part by a major new grant from the European Research Council, Professor Hesmondhalgh's work on this will continue through 2026 as public and policy debate in this area continues. *Supporting the transition to agile working in the NHS* In March 2021, Dr Emma Russell (Sussex) set up 'agiLab' with the NHS South-East Regional Social Partnership Forum (SPF) and the NHS South-East HR Directors Network, which is funded by NHS Employers. agiLab's aims are to promote and facilitate an evidence-based approach to best practice and research in agile working through academic and practitioner collaboration and knowledge exchange. This directly addresses an NHS strategic objective to develop more flexible and pioneering ways of meeting the diverse needs of workers, patients and society. agiLab runs tri-annual half-day conferences on best practice in agile working, attended by NHS workforce managers. It also shares resources through the dedicated website (https://www.agilab.org.uk/), regular meetings, and social media (https://twitter.com/agiLab_Sussex, https://www.linkedin.com/agiLab). As a result of the collaboration, three funded projects have also been developed: 1) 'Leading an agile workforce in the NHS' (https://digit-research.org/research/related-proje cts/leading-an-agile-workforce-in-the-nhs/), 2) 'Attending to the agile working needs of NHS Staff with lower socio-economic status' (accepted and funded by NHS Employers), and 3) 'Reducing interpersonal tensions between clinical and non-clinical staff in the NHS' (funded by NHS England). Further, agiLab has had two successful years of operation, and has garnered interest and plaudits across the NHS. In October 2021, Dr Russell was invited to present at the NHS Strategic Workforce Forum as an example of a successful collaboration, with benefits including: •Knowledge exchange (Academics learn what are the key issues on the ground for the NHS; Practitioners hear about the latest academic research as it is happening; Trusts share insights on agile working through Best Practice Exemplars), •Co-production of research and making connections across regions, • Staff development - steering committee and live, regular engagement and feedback in attending conferences, • Making great use of existing resources and being creative. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | 4 day working week trial launch |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The trial was a resounding success. Of the 61 companies that participated, 56 are continuing with the four-day week (92%), with 18 confirming the policy is a permanent change. Some of the most extensive benefits of shorter working hours were found in employees' well-being. 'Before and after' data shows that 39% of employees were less stressed, and 71% had reduced levels of burnout at the end of the trial. Likewise, levels of anxiety, fatigue and sleep issues decreased, while mental and physical health both improved. Measures of work-life balance also improved across the trial period. Employees also found it easier to balance their work with both family and social commitments - for 54%, it was easier to balance work with household jobs - and employees were also more satisfied with their household finances, relationships and how their time was being managed. 60% of employees found an increased ability to combine paid work with care responsibilities, and 62% reported it easier to combine work with social life. However, other key business metrics also showed signs of positive effects from shorter working hours. Companies' revenue, for instance, stayed broadly the same over the trial period, rising by 1.4% on average, weighted by company size, across respondent organisations. When compared to a similar period from previous years, organisations reported revenue increases of 35% on average - which indicates healthy growth during this period of working time reduction. The number of staff leaving participating companies decreased significantly, dropping by 57% over the trial period. For many, the positive effects of a four-day week were worth more than their weight in money. 15% of employees said that no amount of money would induce them to accept a five-day schedule over the four-day week to which they were now accustomed. |
| Description | Andrew Pakes gave oral evidence to APPG for Future of Work inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.futureworkappg.org.uk/events/appg-for-the-future-of-work-inquiry-into-artificial-intelli... |
| Description | Briefing on flexibility by default, Jill Rubery |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Chris Tilly (MJVF) |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | David Hesmondhalgh's evidence to the UK DCMS Select Committee on the economics of music streaming |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/15321/html/ |
| Description | David Spencer, Mark Stuart et al report for the European Parliament's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021/656311/EPRS_STU(2021)656311_EN.pdf |
| Description | Digit Visiting Fellow speaks to Irish government about Digit-funded research |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Emma Russell organised & produced AgiLab |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.agilab.org.uk/post/news-agilab-s-first-session |
| Description | Evidence submitted on Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/113895/pdf/ |
| Description | Jill Rubery advised and gave evidence to BEIS consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Jill Rubery presented to APPG Women & Work on levelling up |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://connectpa.co.uk/the-women-and-work-all-party-parliamentary-group/ |
| Description | Jo Ingold's evidence to the UK House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/1141/pdf/ |
| Description | Odul Bozkurt & Harry Pitts (June 2020) - written evidence to BEIS consultation on impact of coronavirus |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5698/pdf/ |
| Description | POSTNote on Invisible Disabilities in Education and Employment |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0689/ |
| Description | Rachel Verdin & Jacqueline O'Reilly submitted written evidence to UK HoL Public Services Cttee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Sam Roscoe developed a training plan for UK DIT |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Description | Sam Roscoe evidence to UK International Trade Committee (May 2020) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/305/html/ |
| Description | Steve Rolf presentation to European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Workers' Voice group |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=294509689001935 |
| Description | Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) - CASS Joint Action Program |
| Amount | $7,000 (AUD) |
| Organisation | Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Australia |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Alfried Krupp Junior Research Fellowship |
| Amount | € 20,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | An exploration of voice and power in contemporary online retail UK warehouse work |
| Amount | £588,249 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/W009684/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | Bringing Environmental Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags to Market |
| Amount | £138,880 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/V002414/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Building a policy and sector-relevant evidence base of the relationships between care home staffing and quality: developing insights and using novel methodological approaches |
| Amount | $149,852 (USD) |
| Funding ID | NIHR201429 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Digital Connections and Inclusion in Brighton and Hove: A response to the COVID pandemic |
| Amount | £24,950 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | ESRC IAA and HEIF: Working Well from Home |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sussex |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Engagement Facilitation Fund, University of Sussex Business School |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sussex |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Labour mobility in transition: a multi-actor study of the re-regulation of migrant work in 'low-skilled' sectors |
| Amount | £820,016 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/V016490/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Leading an Agile Workforce in the NHS |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Health Service |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Music Creators' Earnings in the Streaming Era |
| Amount | £1 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Intellectual Property Office (IPO) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| Description | Musicians' Earnings in the Digital Age |
| Amount | £24,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Rapid Response to Coronavirus Pandemic: COVID-19 and impact on employment in developing countries in Asia |
| Amount | $9,700 (AUD) |
| Organisation | Monash University |
| Department | Monash Business School |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Australia |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Research England: Evaluating the longer-term impact of workforce furloughing as part of the UK economic and labour market recovery post-Covid-19 |
| Amount | £34,740 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Responding to the COVID-19 jobs crisis and beyond: building an evidence base for public policy |
| Amount | £38,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | SurgiCare NetZero - Delivering a Net Zero NHS |
| Amount | £798,923 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Ref no. SBRIH18P2017 |
| Organisation | SBRI Healthcare |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | The British Academy: Digital poverty in the UK |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | The impacts of artificial intelligence on the workplace |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | UKRI-HEIF: Artificial Intelligence (AI) led interviews impact on young job seekers' social mobility |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 08/2021 |
| Description | UKRI-HEIF: Digital platforms' role in re-skilling healthcare professionals for Covid-19 recovery |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Understanding Gender (in)equality in the post-pandemic future of work: a comparative study |
| Amount | $280,000 (AUD) |
| Organisation | Australian Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Australia |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Welfare at a (Social) Distance: Accessing social security and employment support during the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath |
| Amount | £528,630 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/V003879/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Zero Waste Manufacturing |
| Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Digital Catapult |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | agiLab |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | NHS Employers |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | 4 day work week pilot |
| Organisation | Boston College |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | David Frayne (Digit Research Fellow, Cambridge) and Brendan Burchell (Digit Co-I) were part of the team involved in the research - with Boston College, Autonomy, the 4 Day Week Global, as well as the 4 Day Week Campaign - on a trial involving 61 organisations that implemented a 4 day work week between June and December 2022. Frayne & Burchell led the qualitative research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Boston College led the quantitative research. The 4 Day Week Campaign brought their experience of accrediting more than 115 UK companies and organisations as four-day week employers. The 4 Day Week Global is a not-for-profit community who has conducted trials in several other countries, in addition to participation in this trial. |
| Impact | The report (accessible here: https://autonomy.work/portfolio/uk4dwpilotresults/) and associated outputs (videos, see https://autonomy.work/portfolio/uk4dwpilotresults/ and press releases, see https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fourdayweek) were launched in February 2023. There has been extensive engagement with UK policymakers, trade unions, and the trial was picked up by many media outlets (e.g. Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/feb/21/four-day-week-uk-trial-success-pattern, BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64669987, FT https://www.ft.com/content/c8fba26c-326d-4053-9b3c-59e06f0b31fb, Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/major-breakthrough-most-firms-say-theyll-stick-with-a-four-day-working-week-after-successful-trial-12816198 and Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-testing-four-day-week-companies-say-they-dont-want-to-stop-a06089cc. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | AI in the workplace (OECD) |
| Organisation | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Digit researchers were commissioned by the OECD to conduct research on AI in the workplace in the UK, focusing on two sectors: finance & manufacturing. Research is completed and publications are planned for end of March 2023. Mark Stuart (Digit Co-Director) and Esme Terry (Digit Research Fellow) conducted interviews with case study organisations in the finance sector. Wil Hunt and Steve Rolf, with support from Jackie O'Reilly (Digit Co-Director), conducted interviews with case study organisation in the manufacturing sector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | OECD led the the research programme, of which the UK was a partner. Other partner countries included, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan and the US. |
| Impact | The report of the findings of all the contributing countries is being launched at a conference in Brussels at the end of March 2023. Further publications and other leads following on this initial engagement are ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | AMD |
| Organisation | Advanced Material Development |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly (Sussex) was successful in achieving a UKRI ESRC and the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) Innovation Fellow award, in collaboration with other partners including AMD. This project will examine the employment consequences of the development, adoption and implementation of innovative environmentally friendly digital technologies such as RFID tags and nanobarcodes in the retail sector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | AMD are dedicating time and knowledge and match-funding to this award. |
| Impact | Reports are pending. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Bristol City Council (for a Digit Innovation Fund awardee) |
| Organisation | Bristol City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Innovation Fund |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bristol City Council wrote a letter of support for the Digit Innovation Fund application, and agreed to provide in-kind staff support to the project including: Participation in workshops, competitions, pilot projects and other activities; Sharing specific types of data. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the research of the Digit Innovation Fund project, which resulted in presentations at 2 academic conferences, a Digit Blog and video (https://digit-research.org/blog_article/coworking_in_the_city_after_covid/), 2 other non-Digit blogs, as well as - as part of a parallel group - a submission of written evidence to a UK BEIS BEIS Committee call on: The impact of Coronavirus on businesses and workers (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5698/pdf/). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Ernst and Young LLP |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Eversheds Sutherland LLP |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | FDM Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Grant Thornton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Green Templeton College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Nesta |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Trades Union Congress (TUC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Nuffield College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | World Commerce & Contracting |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Youth Employment UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digit Advisory Board |
| Organisation | techUK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Co-Directors directly liaise with the members of the Digit Advisory Board (AB). There have been 5 meetings with the Advisory Board thus far. The Digit Co-Directors keep the AB informed of latest research of the Centre. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the advisory board is to provide advice and feedback to the Digit Centre to support the development and implementation of strategy, research and activities, acting as a critical friend. They have also served to evaluate objectives. |
| Impact | The Digit Advisory Board has met five times since Digit was established, and has offered strategic guidance and feedback to the development of the centre. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digital inclusion project |
| Organisation | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Digit colleagues Becky Faith and Kevin Hernandez have been working on digital inclusion and digital poverty projects with a variety of partners, including Barking & Dagenham Council, Community Resources (Dagenham) and Citizens Online, as well as Digital Brighton and Hove (entered separately), which is a part of Citizens Online. These relationships, particularly with Citizens Online, has led to a successful funding application to the British Academy. Faith has also advised on the development of Brighton and Hove City Council's Digital Inclusion Strategy as a member of their Steering Committee. As a member of the newly formed Digital Poverty Alliance's DPA Expert group on ending digital poverty, she is also contributing to their evidence base as part of their efforts to improve understanding of the issue and influence change |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are including Becky on conversations, offering insight, and inviting her to steering groups and expert groups. |
| Impact | Successful funding application to British Academy (£15,000) Digital Inclusion Strategy of Brighton & Hove City Council is forthcoming, but anticipated to contain advice from Faith. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Digital inclusion project |
| Organisation | London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Digit colleagues Becky Faith and Kevin Hernandez have been working on digital inclusion and digital poverty projects with a variety of partners, including Barking & Dagenham Council, Community Resources (Dagenham) and Citizens Online, as well as Digital Brighton and Hove (entered separately), which is a part of Citizens Online. These relationships, particularly with Citizens Online, has led to a successful funding application to the British Academy. Faith has also advised on the development of Brighton and Hove City Council's Digital Inclusion Strategy as a member of their Steering Committee. As a member of the newly formed Digital Poverty Alliance's DPA Expert group on ending digital poverty, she is also contributing to their evidence base as part of their efforts to improve understanding of the issue and influence change |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are including Becky on conversations, offering insight, and inviting her to steering groups and expert groups. |
| Impact | Successful funding application to British Academy (£15,000) Digital Inclusion Strategy of Brighton & Hove City Council is forthcoming, but anticipated to contain advice from Faith. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Disability, neurodiversity, and remote e- working |
| Organisation | Coventry City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Christine Grant (Coventry University) was funded by a Digit Innovation Fund grant (Round 2) and conducted research that aims to fill a gap in understanding the impact of remote e-working for Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers (DNW)*. This group of workers, 20% of the working population, might be overlooked by employers, therefore becoming invisible and unable to work in a way that best supports their needs and capabilities. Through interviews with Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers, employers and other stakeholders this project begins to fill a gap in the academic understanding of the experiences facing disabled and neurodivergent people at work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engaged throughout the Innovation Fund project, offering extra support with analysis and presentation of data. They brought expertise and knowledge, via constructive conversations, and advised on e.g. most appropriate terminology, which informed their research and helped better bridge the gap between theory and practice. |
| Impact | The outputs of this short-term Digit funded research include: Publication (Open Access Government): Promoting the creation of an inclusive workplace, https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/promoting-the-creation-of-an-inclusive-workplace-remote-working/139070/ Press releases, e.g. from Coventry University https://www.coventry.ac.uk/news/2021/remote4all/ and Vodafone https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/news/researchers-to-investigate-impact-of-working-from-home/ Citation in a Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, POST Note: https://digit-research.org/news_article/parliamentary-office-for-science-technology-cites-digit-funded-research/ Video resource: https://digit-research.org/research/innovation-fund/disability-neurodiversity-and-remote-eworking/ Blogs: Disability, neurodivergence and remote working: what employers need to know, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/disability-neurodivergence-and-remote-working-what-employers-need-to-know/ Remote for All: Time to Include People with Disability and/or Neurodiversity in the Remote Working Discussion, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/remote-for-all-disability-neurodiversity-remote-working-discussion/ Presentations at multiple conferences They will now seek further funding to expand the project. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Disability, neurodiversity, and remote e- working |
| Organisation | Coventry University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Christine Grant (Coventry University) was funded by a Digit Innovation Fund grant (Round 2) and conducted research that aims to fill a gap in understanding the impact of remote e-working for Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers (DNW)*. This group of workers, 20% of the working population, might be overlooked by employers, therefore becoming invisible and unable to work in a way that best supports their needs and capabilities. Through interviews with Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers, employers and other stakeholders this project begins to fill a gap in the academic understanding of the experiences facing disabled and neurodivergent people at work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engaged throughout the Innovation Fund project, offering extra support with analysis and presentation of data. They brought expertise and knowledge, via constructive conversations, and advised on e.g. most appropriate terminology, which informed their research and helped better bridge the gap between theory and practice. |
| Impact | The outputs of this short-term Digit funded research include: Publication (Open Access Government): Promoting the creation of an inclusive workplace, https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/promoting-the-creation-of-an-inclusive-workplace-remote-working/139070/ Press releases, e.g. from Coventry University https://www.coventry.ac.uk/news/2021/remote4all/ and Vodafone https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/news/researchers-to-investigate-impact-of-working-from-home/ Citation in a Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, POST Note: https://digit-research.org/news_article/parliamentary-office-for-science-technology-cites-digit-funded-research/ Video resource: https://digit-research.org/research/innovation-fund/disability-neurodiversity-and-remote-eworking/ Blogs: Disability, neurodivergence and remote working: what employers need to know, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/disability-neurodivergence-and-remote-working-what-employers-need-to-know/ Remote for All: Time to Include People with Disability and/or Neurodiversity in the Remote Working Discussion, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/remote-for-all-disability-neurodiversity-remote-working-discussion/ Presentations at multiple conferences They will now seek further funding to expand the project. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Disability, neurodiversity, and remote e- working |
| Organisation | Leonard Cheshire Disability |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Christine Grant (Coventry University) was funded by a Digit Innovation Fund grant (Round 2) and conducted research that aims to fill a gap in understanding the impact of remote e-working for Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers (DNW)*. This group of workers, 20% of the working population, might be overlooked by employers, therefore becoming invisible and unable to work in a way that best supports their needs and capabilities. Through interviews with Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers, employers and other stakeholders this project begins to fill a gap in the academic understanding of the experiences facing disabled and neurodivergent people at work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engaged throughout the Innovation Fund project, offering extra support with analysis and presentation of data. They brought expertise and knowledge, via constructive conversations, and advised on e.g. most appropriate terminology, which informed their research and helped better bridge the gap between theory and practice. |
| Impact | The outputs of this short-term Digit funded research include: Publication (Open Access Government): Promoting the creation of an inclusive workplace, https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/promoting-the-creation-of-an-inclusive-workplace-remote-working/139070/ Press releases, e.g. from Coventry University https://www.coventry.ac.uk/news/2021/remote4all/ and Vodafone https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/news/researchers-to-investigate-impact-of-working-from-home/ Citation in a Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, POST Note: https://digit-research.org/news_article/parliamentary-office-for-science-technology-cites-digit-funded-research/ Video resource: https://digit-research.org/research/innovation-fund/disability-neurodiversity-and-remote-eworking/ Blogs: Disability, neurodivergence and remote working: what employers need to know, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/disability-neurodivergence-and-remote-working-what-employers-need-to-know/ Remote for All: Time to Include People with Disability and/or Neurodiversity in the Remote Working Discussion, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/remote-for-all-disability-neurodiversity-remote-working-discussion/ Presentations at multiple conferences They will now seek further funding to expand the project. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Disability, neurodiversity, and remote e- working |
| Organisation | Vodafone |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Christine Grant (Coventry University) was funded by a Digit Innovation Fund grant (Round 2) and conducted research that aims to fill a gap in understanding the impact of remote e-working for Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers (DNW)*. This group of workers, 20% of the working population, might be overlooked by employers, therefore becoming invisible and unable to work in a way that best supports their needs and capabilities. Through interviews with Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers, employers and other stakeholders this project begins to fill a gap in the academic understanding of the experiences facing disabled and neurodivergent people at work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engaged throughout the Innovation Fund project, offering extra support with analysis and presentation of data. They brought expertise and knowledge, via constructive conversations, and advised on e.g. most appropriate terminology, which informed their research and helped better bridge the gap between theory and practice. |
| Impact | The outputs of this short-term Digit funded research include: Publication (Open Access Government): Promoting the creation of an inclusive workplace, https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/promoting-the-creation-of-an-inclusive-workplace-remote-working/139070/ Press releases, e.g. from Coventry University https://www.coventry.ac.uk/news/2021/remote4all/ and Vodafone https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/news/researchers-to-investigate-impact-of-working-from-home/ Citation in a Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, POST Note: https://digit-research.org/news_article/parliamentary-office-for-science-technology-cites-digit-funded-research/ Video resource: https://digit-research.org/research/innovation-fund/disability-neurodiversity-and-remote-eworking/ Blogs: Disability, neurodivergence and remote working: what employers need to know, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/disability-neurodivergence-and-remote-working-what-employers-need-to-know/ Remote for All: Time to Include People with Disability and/or Neurodiversity in the Remote Working Discussion, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/remote-for-all-disability-neurodiversity-remote-working-discussion/ Presentations at multiple conferences They will now seek further funding to expand the project. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Disrupting technologies conference (2023) |
| Organisation | Monash University |
| Department | Monash Business School |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds Business School and Monash Business School have announced a call for papers for an international conference on Disrupting Technology. The international conference on Disrupting Technology will be held on 11-13 June 2023, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy. The conference is organised by a team from the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (University of Leeds), with the ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Leeds and Sussex) and the Human Resources and Industrial Relations Research Interest Group and the International Consortium for Research on Employment and Work (iCREW), Monash Business School, Monash University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | Ongoing - conference is in June 2023. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Disrupting technologies conference (2023) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | School of Business |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds Business School and Monash Business School have announced a call for papers for an international conference on Disrupting Technology. The international conference on Disrupting Technology will be held on 11-13 June 2023, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy. The conference is organised by a team from the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (University of Leeds), with the ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Leeds and Sussex) and the Human Resources and Industrial Relations Research Interest Group and the International Consortium for Research on Employment and Work (iCREW), Monash Business School, Monash University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | Ongoing - conference is in June 2023. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Eversheds Sutherland |
| Organisation | Eversheds Sutherland LLP |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Steve Rolf (Sussex) was lead on a co-produced project with law firm Eversheds Sutherland to examine the challenges of social protection for 'gig economy' workers. This involves three sets of external partners: Hermes, Eversheds Sutherland, and the GMB Union. The research looks at the role of the GMB union in developing a collective bargaining agreement with the delivery firm Hermes, alongside a new contract including sick pay, minimum wage and other benefits (typically associated with a traditional contract of employment) for self-employed couriers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A senior partner at Eversheds Sutherland contributed time, expertise and knowledge throughout this research project with Dr Steve Rolf, with co-authorship of resulting articles. |
| Impact | Publication: Towards privatized social and employment protections in the platform economy? Evidence from the UK courier sector, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104492 Blogs: Levelling up or levelling down gig work? Three reasons why platforms are offering privatised social and employment protections, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/three-reasons-why-platforms-are-offering-privatised-social-and-employment-protections/ Evri, Uber, Deliveroo: Does collective bargaining guarantee a baseline of 'good work' for platform workers?, https://www.ifow.org/news-articles/evri-uber-deliveroo-collective-bargaining Webinar: Digit Debates: Mind the gap: Digital platforms and the future of social and employment protections, https://digit-research.org/event/digit-debates-mind-the-gap-digital-platforms-and-the-future-of-social-and-employment-protections/ Multi-disciplinary (Marc - law; Jackie - economic sociology; Steve - economic geographer) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Goldsmiths University (for Digit Innovation Fund awardee) |
| Organisation | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Innovation Fund awardee worked collaboratively with the person from Goldsmiths University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The role of the collaborator (who was Co-I on the grant) included identifying respondents, conducting some interviews, providing guidance for RA, data analysis and co-authoring of the final report. |
| Impact | The Digit Innovation Fund awardee has 2 academic journal papers that are forthcoming and have been co-written with the person from Goldsmiths University. They also have a forthcoming Digit Blog and will be presenting at a conference in 2022. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Inclusive digital tech in Scotland's social care |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde) was the recipient of a Digit Innovation Fund to conduct this research on developing inclusive digital technologies for Scotland's post-pandemic social care. This study addressed the research question: what lessons can be drawn from the COVID-19 pandemic about the introduction of digital technology for the social care workforce? Kendra and her team provided information to the partners. They are advising the Care Inspectorate on their Tech Good Practice guidance for Care Inspectors and social care providers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have offered knowledge and expertise, as well as organising and participating in events, and disseminating findings. |
| Impact | Participation in the Digifest Conference, "Digital and the Social Care Workforce" session, co-organised by Scottish Government and Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland, on "Increasing the workforce voice in digitization"; November 2021 Discussion with "Digital Health Technologies Community of Practice", May 2022 "Engage with Strathclyde" event May 2022, presentation and discussion with Scottish Government representatives and voluntary sector social care practitioners of the HR Forum for the Voluntary Sector Presentation and discussion with participants in the "Glasgow Council for Voluntary Organisations", September 2022 Digit blog - 'They all know how to use their phones at home!' Normalising and undervaluing digital skills in complex social care work" October 2022, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/they-all-know-how-to-use-phones-at-home-normalising-and-undervaluing-digital-skills-in-complex-social-care/ The researchers intend to continue engaging with the key practitioners and are seeking international collaboration and funding. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Inclusive digital tech in Scotland's social care |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde) was the recipient of a Digit Innovation Fund to conduct this research on developing inclusive digital technologies for Scotland's post-pandemic social care. This study addressed the research question: what lessons can be drawn from the COVID-19 pandemic about the introduction of digital technology for the social care workforce? Kendra and her team provided information to the partners. They are advising the Care Inspectorate on their Tech Good Practice guidance for Care Inspectors and social care providers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have offered knowledge and expertise, as well as organising and participating in events, and disseminating findings. |
| Impact | Participation in the Digifest Conference, "Digital and the Social Care Workforce" session, co-organised by Scottish Government and Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland, on "Increasing the workforce voice in digitization"; November 2021 Discussion with "Digital Health Technologies Community of Practice", May 2022 "Engage with Strathclyde" event May 2022, presentation and discussion with Scottish Government representatives and voluntary sector social care practitioners of the HR Forum for the Voluntary Sector Presentation and discussion with participants in the "Glasgow Council for Voluntary Organisations", September 2022 Digit blog - 'They all know how to use their phones at home!' Normalising and undervaluing digital skills in complex social care work" October 2022, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/they-all-know-how-to-use-phones-at-home-normalising-and-undervaluing-digital-skills-in-complex-social-care/ The researchers intend to continue engaging with the key practitioners and are seeking international collaboration and funding. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest |
| Organisation | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Digit colleagues at Leeds have created the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest which catalogues reported instances of protest by platform workers across the world. Partner and funders, in addition to Digit, include Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Foundation and The International Labour Organization. The database is a unique resource for the macro-level study of platform worker protest on a global scale. The Leeds Index therefore aims to understand regional patterns of protest and to situate lessons of these disputes in a wider global picture. An interactive map makes the findings searchable and visualises the spread of platform labour protest across time and space. This tool will enable unions and other activists to share, on a previously unattainable scale, information on what other activists are doing around the world and in different sectors. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have provided funding as well as networks and expertise. |
| Impact | Publications: * Policy brief (ETUI): A global struggle: worker protest in the platform economy, https://www.etui.org/publications/policy-briefs/european-economic-employment-and-social-policy/a-global-struggle-worker-protest-in-the-platform-economy * Report (FES): GLOBAL LABOUR UNREST ON PLATFORMS LABOUR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: The case of food delivery workers, https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/16880.pdf * Book chapter: Digitalised management, control and resistance in platform work: a labour process analysis, https://www.elgaronline.com/display/edcoll/9781802205121/9781802205121.xml * Blog (Digit): Mapping protest in platform work: Introducing the new Leeds Index of Platform Worker Protest, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/mapping-protest-in-platform-work-introducing-the-new-leeds-index-of-platform-worker-protest/ It's also resulted in the Gigpedia collaboration (entered separately): https://digit-research.org/news_article/digit-team-collaborate-on-launch-of-gigpedia/ * Working Paper (ILO): A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms, https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---inst/documents/publication/wcms_849215.pdf * Journal Article: Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12252 A formal launch is being held in London, UK on 27 March 2023. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest |
| Organisation | International Labour Organization (ILO) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Digit colleagues at Leeds have created the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest which catalogues reported instances of protest by platform workers across the world. Partner and funders, in addition to Digit, include Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Foundation and The International Labour Organization. The database is a unique resource for the macro-level study of platform worker protest on a global scale. The Leeds Index therefore aims to understand regional patterns of protest and to situate lessons of these disputes in a wider global picture. An interactive map makes the findings searchable and visualises the spread of platform labour protest across time and space. This tool will enable unions and other activists to share, on a previously unattainable scale, information on what other activists are doing around the world and in different sectors. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have provided funding as well as networks and expertise. |
| Impact | Publications: * Policy brief (ETUI): A global struggle: worker protest in the platform economy, https://www.etui.org/publications/policy-briefs/european-economic-employment-and-social-policy/a-global-struggle-worker-protest-in-the-platform-economy * Report (FES): GLOBAL LABOUR UNREST ON PLATFORMS LABOUR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: The case of food delivery workers, https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/16880.pdf * Book chapter: Digitalised management, control and resistance in platform work: a labour process analysis, https://www.elgaronline.com/display/edcoll/9781802205121/9781802205121.xml * Blog (Digit): Mapping protest in platform work: Introducing the new Leeds Index of Platform Worker Protest, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/mapping-protest-in-platform-work-introducing-the-new-leeds-index-of-platform-worker-protest/ It's also resulted in the Gigpedia collaboration (entered separately): https://digit-research.org/news_article/digit-team-collaborate-on-launch-of-gigpedia/ * Working Paper (ILO): A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms, https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---inst/documents/publication/wcms_849215.pdf * Journal Article: Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12252 A formal launch is being held in London, UK on 27 March 2023. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Summer school 2023 (BAM) |
| Organisation | British Academy of Management (BAM) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) is delighted to be collaborating with the British Academy of Management and the University of Sussex Business School to host the British Academy of Management (BAM) 2023 Doctoral Symposium, which will take place on Monday 4th September at the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK). The BAM 2023 Doctoral Symposium runs alongside the wider BAM 2023 Conference, "Towards Disruptive Sustainability: New Business Opportunities and Challenges" which takes place on 1st and 5-6th September at the University of Sussex. You can find out more here. The BAM 2023 Doctoral Symposium will welcome all business and management doctoral researchers to attend in-person workshops, plenaries, paper presentations and 1-on-1 research conversations - and will offer researchers the opportunity to receive impartial expert advice in sessions led by senior academics from within the BAM community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | Ongoing - Summer School is in September 2023 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Summer school 2023 (WZB) |
| Organisation | WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre have issued a call for papers for a Summer School in Berlin on 18th and 19th May 2023. The Summer School will focus on 'Digital Transformation: Technical progress and its impact on workers' and is open to PhD students and early career researchers from the Digit and the Digit Doctoral Network, Leeds University Business School, WZB or the Weizenbaum Institute. The school is being organised by Prof. Martin Krzywdzinski, Jonas Ferdinand, Daniel Schneiß (WZB), Prof. Vera Trappmann, Digit Co-Director Prof. Mark Stuart, Denis Neumann and Carlos Montano Garcia (LUBS). Technological change and multiple crises The simultaneity of rapid technological change and multiple crises pose an enormous challenge to the working classes worldwide. It has significant effects on the world of work, employment relations, and the global economy. Research on industrial relations is of utmost importance in evaluating this change. The summer school will be organised around three themes. Participants submitting an abstract should indicate which session their paper fits into: In search of new methods? Digital sociology and labour The boundaries of the concept of the employment relationship in (dispersed) digitalised workplaces Worker agency and organisational (mis-)behaviour: How to conceptualise workers' agency in digitalised workplaces? |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Melbourne (for Digit Innovation Fund awardee) |
| Organisation | University of Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | University of Melbourne academics were collaborators on this Digit Innovation Fund project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Melbourne academics were collaborators on this Digit Innovation Fund project. |
| Impact | The collaboration with University of Melbourne and other partners, in parallel with joint project, resulted in a Digit Blog, 2 non-academic conference presentations and 4 academic conference presentations, and oral evidence (4 Nov 202) given to the UK Department for Work and Pensions Committee on DWP's Preparations for Changes in the World of Work. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Walmart Research Internships |
| Organisation | Walmart |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Wil Hunt (Digit Research Fellow) and Nikki Stopford (Innovation Fellow, funded with additional ESRC/NPIF funding, https://digit-research.org/research/related-projects/bringing-environmental-radio-frequency-identification-rfid-tags-to-market/), undertook 'Research Internships' as part of Walmart's formal programme. Hunt investigated rapid recruitment practices in retail during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Stopford (Innovation Fellow) investigated the adoption of environmentally friendly digital technology. Each conducted interviews with Walmart employees, and liaised with Walmart on findings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This is part of Walmart's 'Research Internship' programme. Each intern was hosted by an employee of Walmart (virtually) and interviews were undertaken with Walmart employees. |
| Impact | Digit Working Paper Series articles: Innovation Work Chains in US Retail: Automation, Tracking and AI Adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, https://digit-research.org/publication/innovation-work-chains-in-us-retail/ Rapid recruitment in retail: Leveraging AI in the hiring of hourly paid frontline associates during the Covid-19 Pandemic, https://digit-research.org/publication/rapid-recruitment-in-retail/ Blogs: 'Walsmart': when AI hits the shop floor, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/walsmart-when-ai-hits-the-shop-floor/ Retail employment and automation: good or bad for jobs?, https://digit-research.org/blog_article/retail-employment-and-automation-good-bad-jobs/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | West of England Combined Authority (as part of Digit Innovation Fund award) |
| Organisation | West of England Combined Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Digit Innovation Fund awardees collaborated with the West of England Combined Authority. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The West of England Combined Authority wrote a letter of support for the Digit Innovation Fund application, and was an anchor institution partnering. |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the research of the Digit Innovation Fund project, which resulted in presentations at 2 academic conferences, a Digit Blog and video (https://digit-research.org/blog_article/coworking_in_the_city_after_covid/), 2 other non-Digit blogs, as well as - as part of a parallel group - a submission of written evidence to a UK BEIS BEIS Committee call on: The impact of Coronavirus on businesses and workers (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5698/pdf/). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | "Disrupting Technology" Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Leeds team of Digit held the "Disrupting Technology" Conference at Leeds University Business School in January 2020. This conference explored how employment relations are being shaped by digitalisation and attracted 100 attendees from all over the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-ceric/events/event/448/a-two-day-conference-disrupting-technol... |
| Description | 10th Marie Jahoda Winter School of Sociology: "Research and Activism" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | For the 10th anniversary, the series of events of the Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology was dedicated to Marie Jahoda and, accordingly, to the topic of "Research and Activism". Originally planned for September 2020 as a face-to-face event, the anniversary edition could now be implemented as an online event from 25 to 28 January 2021 in cooperation with the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (University of Sussex & University of Leeds) and the Chamber of Labour Vienna. The objectives of the winter school were: to reflect and exchange insights on the link between academic research and political or societal activism for PhD students who are activists themselves to discuss how they reconcile the roles of researcher and activist to discuss the PhD projects with distinguished international scholars in the field to exchange with other doctoral students and early-career scholars who work on similar topics to establish networks within the community 19 very committed participants from all over the world (Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, India, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, UK) presented their PhD projects and discussed a wide range of topics: work, digital age, migration, gender, climate change, housing and urban area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/events/marie-jahoda-school/winter-school-2021/ |
| Description | 2nd Crowdworking Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A paper by Denis Neumann, Mark Stuart, Vera Trappmann was presented at the 2nd Crowdworking Symposium (virtually) on 9 October 2020. The talk was titled "Employment relations of on-demand platforms: workers' resistance in new and old institutional arrangements - the example of food-delivery in Germany". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://pace.uni-paderborn.de/pace-phd-programs/digital-future/tagung-2020/program |
| Description | 4-day work week trial results launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the launch of the report (see Publications) of the 4 day work week trials, and the policy engagement (see Influence on policy, etc.), there was significant media coverage of the report findings. Print coverage based on the Autonomy press release included coverage by: BBC Business (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64669987) Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/feb/21/four-day-week-uk-trial-success-pattern), FT https://www.ft.com/content/c8fba26c-326d-4053-9b3c-59e06f0b31fb Sky https://news.sky.com/story/major-breakthrough-most-firms-say-theyll-stick-with-a-four-day-working-week-after-successful-trial-12816198 Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-testing-four-day-week-companies-say-they-dont-want-to-stop-a06089cc The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3-300-people-tried-the-four-day-week-what-on-earth-happened-c8bjq7h6j The Mirror https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nearly-firms-continue-four-day-29265068 Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/four-day-working-week-trial-b2286184.html New Statesman (https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2023/02/four-day-week-never-been-stronger) Print coverage drawing on Cambridge press release / with Cambridge focus Story on Cambridge site here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fourdayweek US: TIME magazine: https://time.com/6256741/four-day-work-week-benefits/ Fortune magazine: https://fortune.com/well/2023/02/20/4-day-work-week-less-burnout-fewer-sick-days/ UK: The Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/four-day-working-week-good-staff-productivity-f0khlmnsc Daily Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/21/four-day-week-makes-companies-profitable-study-claims/ The Scotsman: https://www.scotsman.com/read-this/4-day-working-week-trial-hailed-a-success-4034820 Germany: (the Deutsche Presse-Agentur ran copy, so 155 articles ran in some of Germany's biggest outlets, some examples) SZ: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/arbeit-positives-fazit-fuer-vier-tage-woche-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-230221-99-677484 FAZ: https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen/dpa/positives-fazit-fuer-vier-tage-woche-18694665.html?printPagedArticle=true Stern: https://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/job/vier-tage-woche--begeisterung-nach-pilotprojekt-in-grossbritannien-33216184.html Handelsblatt: https://www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/pilotprojekt-in-grossbritannien-positives-fazit-fuer-vier-tage-woche/28993878.html Die Zeit: https://www.zeit.de/arbeit/2023-02/vier-tage-woche-produktivitaet-pilotprojekt Austria: ORF (national broadcaster): https://science.orf.at/stories/3217777/ Wiener Zietung: https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wissen/mensch/2178990-Vier-Tage-Woche-steigert-Wohlbefinden.html Spain: RTVE (national broadcaster): https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20230221/trabajar-cuatro-dias-semana-mejora-productividad-bienestar-segun-ensayo-6-meses-reino-unido/2426594.shtml GQ: https://www.revistagq.com/cuidados/articulo/trabajar-4-dias-semana-beneficios-salud-estudio Portugal: Publico: https://www.publico.pt/2023/02/21/economia/noticia/reino-unido-semana-quatro-dias-trabalho-reduziu-stress-manteve-produtividade-2039679 Correio da Manha: https://www.cmjornal.pt/sociedade/detalhe/semana-de-quatro-dias-de-trabalho-reduz-o-stresse-e-mantem-a-produtividade Denmark: Berlingske: https://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/ni-ud-af-ti-chefer-holder-fast-i-kortere-arbejdsuge-efter-forsoeg Politiken: https://politiken.dk/udland/art9222416/9-ud-af-10-chefer-holder-fast-i-kortere-arbejdsuge-efter-fors%C3%B8g Greece: Kathimerini: https://www.kathimerini.gr/life/health/562289392/ereyna-ta-prota-entyposiaka-apotelesmata-tis-tetraimeris-ergasias/ Also - David Frayne was highlighted as a speaker for the Cambridge Festival here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/david-frayne |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Adele Whelan presented at Blockchain Skills Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Associate Fellow Adele Whelan spoke about her Digit-funded research on Blockchain Skills in Ireland and the UK at the virtual event: Blockchain Skills Conference on 1 June 2022. The event welcomed expert contributions from sector representatives, education and training providers, and researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.esri.ie/events/virtual-conference-blockchain-skills-conference |
| Description | Andrew Pakes at Cog-X Series (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Pakes, Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellow at Digit, presented on Big brother and big boss: Is surveillance in the workplace the new normal? at Cog-X, Institute of the Future of Work series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Andrew Pakes quoted in article on CNBC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Pakes is a Digit Marie-Jahoda Visiting Fellow. Andrew was quoted in article on CNBC on: Bosses putting a 'digital leash' on remote workers could be crossing a privacy line on 27 May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/27/office-surveillance-digital-leash-on-workers-could-be-crossing-a-lin... |
| Description | Andy Charlwood made a video tutorial for researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Prof. Andy Charlwood released a video resource on Youtube on Using Understanding Society for employment research on the UKHLS Understanding Society channel (85 views) on 4 April 2022. The video can be used for research into employment, where shares his top tips for using the dataset. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_You9U0rKU |
| Description | Articles in Phenomenal World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Steve Rolf (Digit Research Fellow) and Wei Wei (Digit Associate Fellow) and another colleague wrote 2 articles for Phenomenal World which drew on some research they had done on 'Working conditions in China's digital freight platforms'. The first article was 'Leapfrog Logistics: Digital platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China' (10 June 2022, https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/leapfrog-logistics/) and a commentary on a book, 'Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance' in their own article titled, 'Cyborg trucking: An interview with Karen Levy on surveillance and automation in the trucking industry' (2 Nov 2022, https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/karen-levy/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/leapfrog-logistics/ |
| Description | Astrid Krenz - Selection Committee at Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Former Digit Researcher (and Current Associate Fellow) Astrid Krenz was part of the Selection Committee at SASE Early Career Workshop/Digit Summer School ( 8July 2022). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://sase.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SASE-Amsterdam-Program-2022.pdf |
| Description | Astrid Krenz blog post (April 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Astrid Krenz is a Digit research fellow. Astrid wrote a blog post for the Royal Economic Society on: REGIONAL ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE AND LOCATION CHOICES OF PLANTS: Evidence from Germany on 14 April 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/regional-road-infrastructure-and-location-choices-of-plants-ev... |
| Description | Ayomikun Idowu presented at Business Day (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Ayomikun Idowu, associate fellow at Digit, presented at Business Day in South Africa in a panel on 'Igniting conversations for Youth Entrepreneurs in the Digital Transformation era', on the 30 September 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1eqLgChXD4 |
| Description | Ayomikun Idowu presented at University of Lagos (July 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ayomikun Idowu, Digit associate fellow, presented at University of Lagos on: Are platforms failing young entrepreneurs? on 14 July 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Becky Faith & Kevin Hernandez - Data Commentary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-Is Becky Faith & Kevin Hernandez wrote the first Digit Data Commentary as part of the Digit Data Observatory on "Measuring digital exclusion: Why what is counted is also what counts". This data commentary published on 29 March 2022 offers a critical review of the evidence currently available to understand the nature of digital exclusion in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/data_commentaries/measuring-digital-exclusion/ |
| Description | Becky Faith & Kevin Hernandez blog on IDS website (Dec 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Becky Faith & Kevin Hernandez wrote a blog on IDS website (Dec 2020) titled "The crisis of digital exclusion in hyper connected times" based on research that received further funding to expand Digit-related research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/the-crisis-of-digital-exclusion-in-hyper-connected-times/ |
| Description | Becky Faith interview with BBC on digital poverty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | After publication of a report on Digital Poverty, Becky Faith gave an interview to BBC's Look East (West) - which covers Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Milton Keynes and Northants - on 11 August 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Becky Faith interviewed at BBC Radio London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Becky Faith was interviewed at BBC Radio London about her research report "Digital poverty in the UK" on 4 August 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Becky Faith interviewed at UCB radio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Becky Faith was interviewed about her research report on Digital poverty in the UK by UCB radio on the 4 August 2022. It was also tweeted by UCB news here: https://twitter.com/UCBNewsTeam/status/1555095615461363712 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Becky Faith research highlighted - BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The research report of Digit Co-I Becky Faith on "Digital poverty in the UK" was highlighted on BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat on 4 August 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/IDS_UK/status/1555199335960289282?s=20&t=cVW8VlJQnweYz7eoihatgg |
| Description | Becky Faith spoke at Brighton and Hove Digital Network Meeting (February 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Becky Faith spoke at Brighton and Hove Digital Network Meeting on employability to an audience of local CBOs and local authority on the 2nd February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/DigitalBrightonAndHove/photos/a.283911525284494/1642948376047462/?type=3&ei... |
| Description | Brendan Burchell - Research highlighted in The Economist (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Brendan Burchell, co-I at Digit. His research was highlighted in an article of The Economist: "Why the bullshit-jobs thesis may be, well, bullshit" on 5 June 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.economist.com/business/2021/06/05/why-the-bullshit-jobs-thesis-may-be-well-bullshit |
| Description | Brendan Burchell - employment dosage (media engagement) (2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Brendan Burchell (Cambridge) is a Co-I of Digit. His research project, 'The Employment Dosage: How much work is needed for health and wellbeing?' found that 'people working reduced working hours or being furloughed do not have poorer mental health' (Economist), and that working 1 day a week is enough to maintain good wellbeing. The outputs of this project have been covered in several places including: The Times (21 March 2021) Study finds the key to happiness: working one day a week, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/study-finds-the-key-to-happiness-working-one-day-a-week-0vmp8l3zb, The Guardian (22 March 2021) Make mine a micro-job! Why working one day a week is the secret of happiness https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2021/mar/22/make-mine-a-micro-job-why-working-one-day-a-week-is-the-secret-of-happiness, The Daily Mail (22 March 2021) Is working just one or two days a week the road to happiness? Decreased hours could be the secret to contentment, study suggests https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9387389/Working-just-one-two-days-week-secret-happiness-study-suggests.html, The Economist (31 March 2021) The benefits of part-time work https://www.economist.com/business/2021/04/03/the-benefits-of-part-time-work The Intelligence Podcast of the Economist https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/04/07/this-takes-us-back-to-rates-last-seen-in-1998-which-is-an-extraordinary-reversal-murder-in-america BRINK - Conversations and Insights on Global Business (brinknews.com) (19 August 2020) Even a Few Hours of Paid Work a Week Can Greatly Improve Mental Health, https://www.brinknews.com/even-a-few-hours-of-paid-work-a-week-can-greatly-improve-mental-health-coronavirus-covid/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/research/research-projects/completed-projects/the-employment-dosage-how-mu... |
| Description | Brendan Burchell and the 4 day week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brendan Burchell (Cambridge) and David Frayne (Cambridge) are members of Digit and are part of a group leading a study on trialling a 4 day work week (https://www.4dayweek.com/). This article in the Business Insider (30 January 2022) is titled 'Inside the 4-day week pilot that's backed by Oxford and Cambridge universities and has received interest from hundreds of companies'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.businessinsider.com/4-day-work-week-pilot-oxford-cambridge-universities-2022-1 |
| Description | Brendan Burchell article (April 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Brendan Burchell wrote the article WHY WORK IS GOOD - IN SMALL DOSES for the Idler. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.idler.co.uk/article/who-work-is-good-in-small-doses/ |
| Description | Brendan Burchell opinion piece (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brendan Burchell wrote an opinion piece on the Cambridge website titled: "Employers should cut hours not people during the pandemic (Cut hours not people)" in May 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/opinion-employers-should-cut-hours-not-people-during-the-pandemi... |
| Description | Brendan Burchell quoted in The Metro (January 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Brendan Burchell is a Digit co-I. His research was quoted in an article on: Four-day working week pilot launched in UK in The Metro on the 17 January 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/17/four-day-working-week-pilot-launched-in-uk-15929727/ |
| Description | Brendan Burchell quoted in The Times (August 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Brendan Burchell is a co-I at Digit. His research was quoted in an article in the Times on: Four-day week could be Covid's greatest gift published on the 25th August 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/four-day-week-could-be-covids-greatest-gift-05q0vt3k9 |
| Description | Brendan Burchell webinar (June 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brendan Burchell presented at this ETUI webinar: The Covid crisis and working time reduction - avoiding unemployment, boosting (mental) health and wellbeing and contributing to a more sustainable economy. His talk was titled: "Measuring well-being: WHO5". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.etui.org/events/etui-webinar-the-covid-crisis-and-working-time-reduction-avoiding-unempl... |
| Description | CIPD Applied Research Conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Ioulia Bessa presented a talk titled, "Cut hours, not people: no work, furlough, short hours and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK" in Stream 2: Employee wellbeing during Covid-19 of the CIPD Applied Research Conference on 21 January 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://events.cipd.co.uk/events/blog/session/stream-2-employee-wellbeing-during-covid-19/ |
| Description | Caroline Murphy & Jacqueline O'Reilly - SASE Salons webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Associate Fellow Caroline Murphy and co-director Jacqueline O'Reilly organised and spoke at a webinar on "Fragmented work boundaries and digital (dis)connections" at SASE Salons - Pre-Conference 2022 Events on the 9 July 2022. The webinar series presents cutting-edge research from leading thinkers in anticipation of the 2022 annual SASE conference at the University of Amsterdam, "Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control" - 9-11 July 2022. The session included a panel debate with academic researchers, policy and trade union experts around digital transformations to the world of work. It covered remote working challenges, policy and regulation debates around digitalisation and artificial intelligence at work, rights to disconnect from technological surveillance and control. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://sase.org/event/2022-amsterdam/#sase-salons---pre-conference-events |
| Description | Chidi Obgonnaya blog (April 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chidi Ogbonnaya wrote a blog for the LSE blog in April 2020 titled, "Remote working is good for mental health but for whom & at what cost?" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/04/24/remote-working-is-good-for-mental-health-but-for-w... |
| Description | Chris Forde and Ioulia Bessa - blog on CERIC website (January 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Forde is Deputy Director of Digit and Co-Lead of Data Observatory. Ioulia Bessa is co-lead of Research Theme 1at Digit. Chris and Ioulia wrote blog post on: From a health crisis to a labour crisis: Omicron, Brexit and Labour Shortages published on the CERIC (Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change) website on the 13 January 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cericleeds.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Chris Forde and Mark Stuart - podcast LUBS (November 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Forde is Co-Director of the Data Observatory at Digit and Mark Stuart is Co-Director of Digit. Their podcast episode on: Furlough and the Coronavirus job Retention Scheme was recorded remotely in October 2021 and published on 1 November 2021 as part of the Research and Innovation series of Leeds University Business School podcasts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/6t3LbFTxWE597mftlGllpA?si=52f182c653004e39&nd=1 |
| Description | Chris Forde blog on archival research for LUBS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Chris Forde (Digit Co-I) wrote a blog for the Leeds University Business School blogspot titled, 'Four ways that archival research can help you understand the past, present and future of work' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-blog/2087/four-ways-that-archival-research-can-help... |
| Description | Chris Forde interviewed in a podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Chris Forde was interviewed in the podcast 'Future of Work' from the University of Leeds business School to talk about 'Academic Perspectives' and discuss the key debates around hybrid working on 11 July 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://the-future-of-work.captivate.fm/episode/academic-perspectives |
| Description | Chris Forde quoted on Amazon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Chris Forde was quoted in an article titled, "Amazon's empty pledge leaves agency workers without shifts and pay" in an article in the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism on 18 February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-02-18/amazons-empty-pledge-leaves-agency-workers-... |
| Description | Chris Forde quoted on Amazon (Yorkshire Post) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Chris Forde was quoted in an article titled "Amazon warehouse agency workers being treated 'as a commodity' says GMB union amid claims of zero hours contracts" in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 19 February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business/amazon-warehouse-agency-workers-being-treated-as-a-c... |
| Description | Chris Forde, Vera Trappmann & Charles Umney - Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | in this podcast episode on Presenting at the International Labour Process Conference 2022 released on 21 June 2022, Digit Co-I Chris Forde interviewed Jonathan Winterton on his work exploring overseas Filipino workers in Malaysia. Digit Associate Fellow Vera Trappmann and Digit Research Fellow Charles Umney also discussed their paper at ILPC, 'How personal histories impact our expectations of working life. Finally, Charles Umney also discussed 'Why the music industry won't be "Uberized" with a colleague. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/leedsunibschool/sets/presenting-at-the |
| Description | Chris Grant (IF awardee) spoke at agiLab event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Grant, Associate Fellow at Digit, presented her Digit-funded research to an agiLab event (https://www.agilab.org.uk/) to discuss disability, neurodiversity and remote e-working (https://digit-research.org/research/innovation-fund/disability-neurodiversity-and-remote-eworking/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Christine Grant - video resource |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Associate Fellow Christine Grant produced a Digit research-informed video resource on "Remote E-working for Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers" visible on YouTube (215 views). This animation describes findings from a research project exploring the experiences of remote e-working for Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers and identifies key lessons for employers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhmeMeZkIPc |
| Description | Christine Grant and Emma Russell - Vodafone Press release (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Christine Grant is an associate fellow and Emma Russell is a co-I at Digit. Their research was highlighted in a press release on the Vodafone website: Researchers to investigate impact of working from home on the 10 December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://newscentre.vodafone.co.uk/news/researchers-to-investigate-impact-of-working-from-home/ |
| Description | Christine Grant presented at Royal Society of Biology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Associate fellow Christine Grant presented her research to the Royal Society of Biology as part of the Equality Diversity and Inclusion panel on the 8 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Christine Grant presented at Vodaphone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Digit Associate Fellow Christine Grant (alongside Digit Co-I Emma Russell) presented her research findings from the Remote4all Digit-funded project (Innovation Fund) to Vodafone's VodABILITY group on the 29 November 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Claire Wallace interviewed at NorthSound Radio (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Claire Wallace, Digit co-I was interviewed by NorthSound Radio on how COVID has changed the idea of working at home for COPS 26 event on the 1 November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Claire Wallace interviewed by BBC Scotland (May 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Claire Wallace is a co-Lead for the Research Theme 1: The Impact of Digitalisation on Work and Employment at Digit. Claire was interviewed on Friday 21st May 2021 by BBC Scotland about using digital walking apps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Cog-X 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly was invited to a panel titled 'IFOW The big acceleration: technology through COVID-19' as part of CogX 2020 (9 June 2020). Other panellsts included Our panelists Anna Thomas, Sir Christopher Pissarides and Daniel Susskind. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WC_tbNgDK4 |
| Description | David Frayne - quoted in Business Insider South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The research work of Digit Research Fellow David Frayne was quoted in an article on "3,500 workers at 70 firms to trial 4 day work week - here's how it will work" in Business Insider South Africa on 1 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.businessinsider.co.za/4-day-work-week-pilot-oxford-cambridge-universities-2022-1 |
| Description | David Frayne quoted in Vice (December 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | David Frayne, research fellow at Digit was quoted in Vice in an article on: Inside the Online Movement to End Work on the 22 December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vwjw/inside-the-online-movement-to-end-work-antiwork-sub-reddit |
| Description | David Frayne quoted in national media about 4 day working week (2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | David Frayne (Cambridge) is a Research Fellow with Digit. He was quoted about the 4 day week trial in an article in Business Insider titled 'Inside the 4-day week pilot that's backed by Oxford and Cambridge universities and has received interest from hundreds of companies' on 30 January 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.businessinsider.com/4-day-work-week-pilot-oxford-cambridge-universities-2022-1 |
| Description | David Frayne was credited contributor in video by Reuters (January 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | David Frayne, Digit Research Fellow, is a credited contributor in the video Antiwork & The Great Resignation: Why workers are quitting their jobs by the Thomson Reuters Foundation on 21 January 2022. It has more than 56 000 views on Youtube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ht9zWy_xVQ |
| Description | David Hesmondhalgh coverage in the media of his IPO report (1) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | David Hesmondhalgh (Leeds) is a Co-I of Digit. He co-authored a report (entered in 'Publications' in ResearchFish, and discussed in 'Narrative Impact') titled 'Music creators' earnings in the digital era' commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). This report was covered on our website here: Music Creators' Earnings in the Streaming Era, https://digit-research.org/research/related-projects/music-creators-earnings-in-the-streaming-era/ And in the media: Musically: UK research on music creators' digital earnings is out today September 23, 2021 https://musically.com/2021/09/23/uk-research-on-music-creators-digital-earnings-out-today/ It was also covered here: The Times: Top 1% of artists account for 80% of music streaming 23 September 2021 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/top-artists-account-for-80-per-cent-of-music-streams-report-reveals-zv2w7rxrf The Guardian: 'Odds are against you': the problem with the music streaming boom 2 October 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/02/odds-are-against-you-the-problem-with-the-music-streaming-boom |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/research/related-projects/music-creators-earnings-in-the-streaming-era/ |
| Description | David Spencer - research highlighted in European Parliament Research Service blog (February 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | David Spencer is a co-I at Digit. His research on: Work in the era of AI: Time for a Digital Social Contract was highlighted in the European Parliament Research Service blog on the 10 February 2021. This blog is related to the report (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021/656311/EPRS_STU(2021)656311_EN.pdf) and related briefing (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021/656311/EPRS_STU(2021)656311(ANN1)_EN.pdf) from David Spencer, Matt Cole, Simon Joyce, Xanthe Whittaker and Mark Stuart (co-director of Digit). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://epthinktank.eu/2021/02/10/work-in-the-era-of-ai-time-for-a-digital-social-contract/ |
| Description | David Spencer blog post (May 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | David Spencer is a co-I at Digit. With Gary Slater, David wrote a blog post for OUP (Oxford University Press) on The robots are coming! But could they-and should they-take your job? on 29 May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://blog.oup.com/2021/05/the-robots-are-coming-but-could-they-and-should-they-take-your-job/ |
| Description | David Spencer research highlighted re: STOA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog highlights the report 'Digital automation and the future of work: Securing a digital future that works for all', in the European Parliamentary Research Service. It's titled, 'Work In The Era Of AI: Time For A Digital Social Contract' and was published on 10 February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://epthinktank.eu/2021/02/10/work-in-the-era-of-ai-time-for-a-digital-social-contract/ |
| Description | David Spencer spoke in a podcast (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | David Spencer is a Digit co-I. He recorded a podcast episode (The Sound of Economics, by Bruegel, a think-tank) on: Technology: a product of unequal power? on 24 November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://audioboom.com/posts/7985457-technology-a-product-of-unequal-power |
| Description | Debra Howcroft blog (April 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Debra Howcroft and her PhD student Abbie Winton wrote "What COVID-19 tells us about the value of human labour" on the University of Manchester blog in April 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2020/04/what-covid-19-tells-us-about-the-value-of-human-la... |
| Description | Debra Howcroft coverage of report on Working from Home (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-Investigator, Professor Debra Howcroft (Manchester), co-authored a report on working from home (WFH) for the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), which is entered under 'Publications' in ResearchFish. They found that while a majority of workers wanted to spend two days or less in the workplace there was also compelling evidence that WFH is not desirable for a significant minority. There was media coverage in: London Evening Standard Most employees want to continue working from home some of the time, study finds. 22 March 2021 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/research-phil-taylor-university-of-manchester-glasgow-wfh-b925537.html Glasgow Herald Working from home - Most workers want to keep going https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19178641.working-home--workers-want-keep-going/ Morning Star Over a third say that working from home has negatively affected their health https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/over-third-say-working-home-has-negatively-affected-their-health-scottish-survey Microsoft News - Most employees want to continue working from home some of the time, study finds https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/careersandeducation/most-employees-want-to-continue-working-from-home-some-of-the-time-study-finds/ar-BB1ePXGN BBC Radio Scotland - Good Morning Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000tdjc. From 46.28 to 52.33. As well as the Daily Record (Scotland) Half of home workers say bosses spy on them as firm branded 'repugnant' https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/half-staff-working-home-being-23901469 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/news_article/digit-researcher-co-authors-report-on-working-from-home/ |
| Description | Digit Debates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Digit Debates series of online talks aims to engage a broad audience of both academics and non-academics in order to help establish Digit as a key hub for cutting-edge scholarship and debate about the impact of digital technologies on work--helping to build an engaged network for our research outputs. The first nine talks have attracted more than 650 attendees including senior academics, policymakers (from Europe to Latin America), business leaders from large international corporations, other practitioners and graduate students. The speakers to date have been mostly non-Digit and come from a variety of disciplines as well. Alongside opportunities to build direct connections and relationships with key stakeholders, the talks are also playing a key role in building Digit's capacity to engage a broad audience with its future research by building a database of contacts (this has increased from 280 prior to the series to almost 1,000 today) and helping to increase traffic to our website. As of 2022, we have had 5 series of Digit Debates, each with between 4-6 webinars, and with plans for Summer 2022 already underway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/events/digit-events |
| Description | Digit Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Digital Futures at Work Research Centre established a website for disseminating research, engaging with stakeholders and hosting resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/ |
| Description | Digit blogs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Digit Blog series contain views and analysis from the Digit community on how digital technologies are changing work. As of March 2023, there were 40 blogs produced: 001 - Do we really need another blog about digital futures at work? 22/11/2021 002 - From learning walks to online drop-ins: technology and performance management of teachers during the pandemic 22/11/2021 003 - Coworking in the city after covid 29/11/2021 004 - Coworking in the country: sign of a healthy rural economy 06/12/2021 005 - Can digital retail platforms provide a stable income for young people? 14/12/2021 006 - Social media platforms for digital retail in Africa: an alternative to online retail platforms for young people 16/12/2021 007 - Walsmart: When AI hits the shop floor 11/01/2022 008 - Moving beyond lip service on work life balance: Are UK workers being left behind on the right to disconnect? 17/01/2022 009 - Is the right to disconnect a red herring? 24/01/2022 010 - "We organise in under ten minutes" Rise of Germany's wildcat strikers 01/02/2022 011 - Three unanswered questions about the EU directive on gig work 08/02/2022 012 - Rise of worker surveillance software 08/03/2022 013 - Barriers to Employment Service digitalisation? 16/03/2022 014 - Retail employment and automation: good or bad for jobs? 11/04/2022 015 - "Will you give us a phone if we do this survey?" Surveying digital gaps through digital means 20/04/2022 016 - Guiding principles for leaders of newly formed virtual teams 27/04/2022 017 - Long-term care in the gig economy 04/05/2022 018 - Levelling up or levelling down gig work? Three reasons why platforms are offering privatised social and employment protections 10/05/2022 019 - Five questions about the future of work in blockchain 30/05/2022 020 - Researching AI video interviews from a human perspective 07/06/2022 021 - Lighter work for all 14/06/2022 022 - Remote for All: Time to Include People with Disability and/or Neurodiversity in the Remote Working Discussion 21/06/2022 023 - Does AI chatbot make a good colleague at work? 28/06/2022 024 - Feeling At Home at Work? Inequalities, Inclusiveness, and Changing Work Environments 05/07/2022 025 - New business models mean worse outcomes for Chinese online ride-hailing drivers 12/07/2022 026 - Contested delivery platforms in Argentina: what do platform workers want? 20/07/2022 027 - There is a robot doing my job! Am I doomed? 15/09/2022 028 - Research in progress - Reflections at Digit's halfway point 05/10/2022 029 - 'They all know how to use their phones at home!' Normalising and undervaluing digital skills in complex social care work 19/10/2022 030 - Employers' responses to the end of free movement: the rhetoric and realities of automation 08/11/2022 031 - Disability, neurodivergence and remote working: what employers need to know 21/11/2022 032 - Digital levelling up: starting early to tackle digital poverty 28/11/2022 033 - The platform economy discussion at the ILO: first a failure, now a future? 29/11/2022 034 - From farm, to factory, to fork: how do we ensure good food and good work through technology? 08-Dec-22 035 - Which skills are the skills of the future? That might depend on you! 12-Jan-23 036 - Mapping protest in platform work: Introducing the new Leeds Index of Platform Worker Protest 19-Jan-23 037 - Four ways digital technologies are changing strategy-making 02-Feb-23 038 - Digital Presenteeism: The Pressure to be seen in the Virtual Office 21-Feb-23 039 -What does the 4-day week do to your brain? 02-Mar-23 040 - Mapping our digital ecosystem can help policymakers drive digital transformation 06-Mar-23 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/blog/ |
| Description | Digit blogs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Digit Blog series contain views and analysis from the Digit community on how digital technologies are changing work. As of March 2022, there were 13 blogs produced: *Barriers to Employment Service digitalisation? 16 March 2022 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/barriers-to-employment-service-digitalisation/ *Rise of worker surveillance software - 8 March 202 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/rise-of-worker-surveillance-software/ *Three unanswered questions about the EU Directive on gig work - 8 February 2022 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/three-unanswered-questions-about-eu-directive-on-gig-work/ *"We organise in under ten minutes": Rise of Germany's wildcat strikers - 1 February 2022 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/we-organise-in-under-ten-minutes-rise-germanys-wildcat-strikers/ *Is the 'right to disconnect' a red herring? 24 January 2022 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/is-the-right-to-disconnect-a-red-herring/ *Moving beyond lip service on work life balance: are UK workers being left behind on the right to disconnect? 17 January 2022 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/are-uk-workers-being-left-behind-on-right-to-disconnect/ *'Walsmart': when AI hits the shop floor - 11 January 2022 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/walsmart-when-ai-hits-the-shop-floor/ *Social media platforms for digital retail in Africa: an alternative to online retail platforms for young people - 16 December 2021 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/social-media-platforms-digital-retail-africa/ *Can digital resale clothing platforms provide a stable income for young people in the UK? 14 December 2021 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/can-digital-retail-platforms-provide-stable-incomes-for-young-people-uk/ *Coworking in the country: sign of a healthy rural economy? 6 December 2021 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/coworking-in-the-country-sign-of-a-healthy-rural-economy/ *Coworking in the City after Covid-19: Community versus Competition? 29 November 2021 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/coworking_in_the_city_after_covid/ *From learning walks to online drop-ins: technology and performance management of teachers during the pandemic - 22 November 2021 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/technology_performance_management_teachers/ *Do we really need another blog about digital futures at work? 22 November 2021 https://digit-research.org/blog_article/another_blog_digital_futures_at_work/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/blog |
| Description | Digit social media presence - Twitter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Digit Twitter account (@digitcentre) has over 1,360 followers, as of early March 2022. This is a key dissemination and communication tool for engaging with stakeholders and inviting stakeholders to e.g. Digit Debates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/digitcentre?lang=en |
| Description | Digit social media presence on LinkedIn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit recently set up a LinkedIn site and currently (as of early March 2022) has 273 followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-futures-at-work-research-centre/ |
| Description | Dimitra Petrakaki & Zahira Jaser - Article in Harvard Business Review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Dimitra Petrakaki and Digit Associate Fellow Zahira Jaser wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review called Are You Prepared to Be Interviewed by an AI? on the 7 February 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hbr.org/2023/02/are-you-prepared-to-be-interviewed-by-an-ai |
| Description | Dimitra Petrakaki - research highlighted in People Management (January 20222) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dimitra Petrakaki is a co-I at Digit. Dimitra's research was highlighted in an article on: What type of person would a robot hire? in People Management on the 27 January 20222. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/long-reads/articles/what-type-person-robot-hire#gref |
| Description | Dimitra Petrakaki and Petros Chamakiotis - Policy brief (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dimitra Petrakaki, co-I at Digit and Petros Chamakiotis, associate fellow at Digit wrote a Policy brief on: The role of digital health platforms in re-skilling healthcare professionals in developing countries: The case of MedicineAfrica. This blog post was published in Policy@Sussex (https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/policy-engagement/ - University of Sussex) blog series on 1 June 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/policy-engagement/files/2021/06/The-role-of-digital-health-platforms-in-r... |
| Description | Dimitra Petrakaki article in Science Media Centre (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dimitra Petrakaki was quoted for this article titled "Expert reaction to the news that the NHS contact tracing app is to be piloted on the Isle of Wight" on 4 May 2020. This interview was then picked up by Yahoo UK (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-covid19-app-contact-tracing-privacy-160040003.html) and the Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8289061/Experts-warn-theres-stop-people-lying-NHSs-coronavirus-tracking-app.html). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-the-news-that-the-nhs-contact-tracing-app-is-t... |
| Description | Dimitra Petrakaki workshop Bristol (March 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dimitra Petrakaki presented a talk titled "Curating Patient Experience: Moderation Work in a Digital Health Platform" at the Bristol Health Partners workshop - Digital Health Platforms and the Future of Healthcare Workshop - on the 3rd of March 2020. The audience included academia, industry, not-for-profit and public sector organisations, health service users and innovators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/events/view/2020/03/03/digital-health-platforms-and-the-fut... |
| Description | Diplomatic Academy of Peru webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly was invited to present a paper on 28 September 2020, titled "International comparisons of Work in the Digital Age" at The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Peru´s Foreign Policy. The webinar was designed to consider the multidimensional changes generated by the fourth industrial revolution (FIR) in the economic, social, political, and other, spheres. It aimed to provoke a more in-depth discussion about the impact and policy challenges that those transformations pose to developing countries like Peru and the importance of assessing those challenges, in particular in respect of its public and foreign policy. The event allowed participants to reflect on the opportunities that might be created for developing countries and how to take advantage of them, so as to continue developing in a sustainable manner, creating benefits for all. The webinar addressed primarily Peruvian diplomats around the world and the students of the Diplomatic Academy. The event was live streamed through the Diplomatic Academy of Peru's Facebook account for the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ETUI Policy Brief (Feb 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) policy brief, titled: "A global struggle: worker protest in the platform economy" was written by members of Digit, including Simon Joyce, Denis Neumann, Vera Trappmann and Charles Umney. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.etui.org/publications/policy-briefs/european-economic-employment-and-social-policy/a-glo... |
| Description | Emma Russel quoted on CNBC (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell is a co-I at Digit. Emma's work was quoted in an article on CNBC on: The right to disconnect could become the norm in Europe on 22 June 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/22/right-to-disconnect-could-become-the-norm-in-europe.html |
| Description | Emma Russell & Chidi Ogbonnaya in FT (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell & Chidi Ogbonnaya were quoted in the article titled "We must harness the power of home working tech, not be slave to it" on 21 May 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/0087e432-9085-11ea-bc44-dbf6756c871a |
| Description | Emma Russell & Chris Grant spoke at NHS Employers Strategic Workforce Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell, Director of agiLab, was invited to talk at the NHS Employers Strategic Workforce Forum on 10th October 2022 with Dr Chris Grant (Coventry) and Bronwyn Francis (Vodafone) about the Digit-funded Innovation Fund project "Remote4All: supporting agile workers with neurodivergent and disabled conditions". This was attended by NHS Employers CEO Danny Mortimer along with NHS HR directors, workforce managers and union reps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Emma Russell & Deepali Dmello chaired third agiLab conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Emma Russell alongside Digit Doctoral Network member Deepali Dmello chaired the third agiLab half-day virtual conference, held on 28 April 2022. AgiLab is a collaboration between members of Digit (lead by Dr Emma Russell) and NHS (SE) workforce directors, networks and colleagues (including unions), who are interested in understanding the impact of agile working in the NHS. This was a very well attended session (N=69). Guest speakers included Professor Brendan Burchell (Digit Co-I - Cambridge), discussing intensification and long hours working, and Dr Francesca Sobande (Digit Associate Fellow - Cardiff), chairing a session on how we signal inclusion in virtual work environments. Engagement was very high, with lots of discussion and thought-provoking debate around the issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.agilab.org.uk/post/event-aprils-agilab-session |
| Description | Emma Russell & Marc Fullman article (April 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Emma Russell and her PhD student Marc Fullman wrote an article titled "Just checking in: how managers can keep remote teams together in a lockdown" for TechRadar, which has a very wide readership. This article was picked up from the Digit article here: https://digit-research.org/2020/03/how-managers-can-keep-remote-teams-together-in-the-coronavirus-crisis/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.techradar.com/news/just-checking-in-how-managers-can-keep-remote-teams-together-in-a-loc... |
| Description | Emma Russell & colleagues - Research highlighted |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An article in TechMonitor on 7 June 2022 on UK companies are trialling a four-day week, will it boost productivity? highlights the HBR article (https://hbr.org/2022/05/what-leaders-need-to-know-before-trying-a-4-day-work-week) written by Digit Co-I Emma Russell, Digit Associate Fellow Caroline Murphy and Digit Research Fellow Esmee Terry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://techmonitor.ai/new-world-of-work/four-day-week-uk-trial |
| Description | Emma Russell - article in European Business Review (December 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell (Digit co-I) and Marc Fullman (Doctoral researcher at University of Sussex) wrote an article about their research on: These tips could help you better manage your work email in the European Business Review on the 14 December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.europeanbusinessreview.eu/page.asp?pid=5630 |
| Description | Emma Russell - book release coverage in Coventry Observer (February 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell (Digit co-I) and Christine Grant (Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellow at Digit) wrote a book called: Agile Working and Well-Being in the Digital Age. The book release was covered by the Coventry Observer on 5 February 2021 in this article; New book looking at WFH in Covid pandemic co-written by Coventry University academic. The book launch was also covered in My Science UK and Family Friend Working (https://www.familyfriendlyworking.co.uk/2021/03/08/changing-how-you-work-for-now-and-the-future/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://coventryobserver.co.uk/news/new-book-on-wfh-in-covid-pandemic-co-written-by-coventry-univers... |
| Description | Emma Russell - video resource for the Charity for Civil Servants (July 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell, co_I at Digit, produced an information resource (including an animation video) for the Charity for Civil Servants' website on 1 July 2021 about problematic emails. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://foryoubyyou.org.uk/info-and-resources/mental-health/smarter-working-your-wellbeing-hub/digit... |
| Description | Emma Russell and problematic emails (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | ADD INFORMATION HERE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Emma Russell engagement on problematic emails |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell (Sussex) is a co-I at Digit. In 2021, her research on email habits was highlighted in several articles, and she authored some articles directly as well, including: * Why are people so rude over work-email? And what can we do about it? in International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 9.5, 21/07/2021, http://www.ifip95wg.org/blogpost/why-are-people-so-rude-over-work-email-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/ * Problematic emails video, YouTube, 200 views March 2022, released 06/09/2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF_o1Xxs8wM *Ping, read, reply, repeat: how to break bad email habits at work, in The Conversation, 07/12/2021, https://theconversation.com/ping-read-reply-repeat-how-to-break-bad-email-habits-at-work-173349 *Bad email habits and how to break them, in The Independent (newspaper), 12/12/2021 https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bad-email-habits-break-them-b1972095.html *Getting on top of unhelpful email habits can take up to a years' hard graft, in Business Leader Magazine, 10/08/2021 https://www.businessleader.co.uk/getting-on-top-of-unhelpful-email-habits-can-take-up-to-a-years-hard-graft/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Emma Russell in OneZero article (July 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell was quoted in this article on OneZero titled "Remote Work Can Actually Flip the Power Dynamic With Your Boss" on 22 July 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://onezero.medium.com/remote-work-can-actually-flip-the-power-dynamic-with-your-boss-c6d232fbcb... |
| Description | Emma Russell on right to disconnect (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell (Sussex) is a Co-I of Digit. In April 2021, she had an article in Reuters titled 'ANALYSIS-Right to disconnect gains ground as pandemic brings work home' which argued for XXX. This was also covered in Further Asia and Mail Online. Further, a Digit Blog addressed this topic: 'Is the 'right to disconnect' a red herring', 24 January 2022: https://digit-research.org/blog_article/is-the-right-to-disconnect-a-red-herring/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.reuters.com/article/global-tech-workers-idUSL8N2ML638 |
| Description | Emma Russell quoted in the Wall Street Journal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Emma Russell's research was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in an article on "How to Care Less About Your Email" on 23 May 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-care-less-about-your-email-11653174123 |
| Description | Emma Russell spoke at Ministry of Justice (May 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell is a Digit co-I. Emma spoke at the Ministry of Justice about 'Digital Work and the Always-on Culture' on 27 May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Emma Russell spoke at ProPad (May 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Emma Russell (Sussex) is a Co-I at Digit. Emma spoke at ProdPad (https://www.prodpad.com/about-us/) on 26 May 2021 about managing digital interruptions. This was a private event and was not recorded. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Esme Terry in NPR podcast about working time |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Esme Terry, Digit Research Fellow, was interviewed as part of a podcast, 'Test driving a four-day work week,' by NPR Planet Money Podcast about the 4 day working week trials in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1138651732 |
| Description | Esmee Terry presented at Industrial Relations Research Unit's speaker series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Research Fellow Esmee Terry presented at Industrial Relations Research Unit's speaker series at Warwick Business School on 09 November 2022. The presentation was on Digital connectivity at work: a thematic review and future research agenda (working paper). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irru-202223-speaker-series-with-esme-terry-tickets-449348773277 |
| Description | Expert consultations / roundtables, Adele Whelan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | As part of her Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellowship, Adele Whelan conducted four expert consultations (virtual roundtables) with industry experts in Ireland and the UK (August 2021), including organisations with developed blockchain components, industry senior executives and managers; blockchain architects and developers; start-ups and new industries; education providers, academics, researchers, and policymakers; and recruitment specialists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/researcher/adele-whelan/ |
| Description | Fang Lee Cooke blog (Nov 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Fang Lee Cooke (Monash University, Australia) wrote this policy brief titled, "COVID-19 and Impact on Employment in Developing Countries in Asia" and published on the University of Monash website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2388818/PB2020n05_v1.pdf |
| Description | Fang Lee Cooke presented a seminar at University of Sussex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Prof. Fang Lee Cooke presented a seminar on Publishing in Top Human Resource Management Journals at the University of Sussex Business School on 19 October 2022. This seminar outlines key issues to be aware of in making a successful submission and publication in top human resource management (HRM) journals. It also indicates key developments in the HRM field, including thematic interests, contemporary tensions and challenges being addressed in the top HRM journals, and the key controversies currently animating the field. Prof. Cooke drew on personal experience as an author, reviewer and editor of various journals and shared lessons learned to help participants increase their chances of publishing in the top HRM journals. Participants had opportunities to share their views and experience, as well as ask questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing-in-top-human-resource-management-journals-fang-lee-cooke-t... |
| Description | Fang Lee Cooke spoke at Annual Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Prof. Fang Lee Cooke delivered the Work and Employment Institute 2022 Annual Lecture at University of Manchester on 10 May 2022. The title of the talk was "Can workers be organised if the state isn't? Digitalisation, work and employment in emerging and developing economies ". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-workers-be-organised-if-the-state-isnt-tickets-319655547347?gator... |
| Description | Gary Bosworth - Video resource |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Digit Associate Fellow Gary Bosworth (alongside Digit Co-I Emma Russell) produced a Video resource called 'Rural Coworking Toolkit' on the 31 October 2022. It has 125 views on YouTube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://nicre.co.uk/case-studies/rural-coworking-toolkit/ |
| Description | Gary Bosworth - article in Regions e-zine (October 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gary Bosworth is an associate fellow at Digit. Alongside Jason Whalley, Anita Füzi and Ian Merrell, Gary wrote an article on: Rural coworking: "It's becoming contagious" for the Regional Studies Association in their magazine Regions e-zine on the 1 October 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/article/rural-coworking/ |
| Description | Gary Bosworth - online workshop (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gary Bosworth, associate fellow at Digit, organise and spoke at an online workshop on: Rural co-working spaces. The workshop was hosted by Northumbria University, gathered 50 coworking operators and took place in June 2021.https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/news/new-trends-in-rural-co-working/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/news_article/rural-co-working-spaces-workshop/ |
| Description | Gary Bosworth further engagement after IF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gary Bosworth (Digit Associate Fellow) is continuing to do local work on promoting rural coworking, following his Digit Innovation Fund research, and is part of a small project working with the University of Lincoln about coworking in pubs (funded by NICRE) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://nicre.co.uk/research-and-evidence/co-working-in-rural-pubs/ |
| Description | Harry Pitts Coworking spaces after Covid 19 (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Harry Pitts (Bristol), an Associate Fellow of Digit who was awarded a Digit Innovation Fund, produced a video of his Innovation Fund project on Covid-19 and Coworking Spaces in urban areas (Manchester, Bristol and Brighton). As of March 2022, YouTube indicates that it has had over 560 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/blog_article/coworking_in_the_city_after_covid/ |
| Description | Harry Pitts wrote a blog in Futures of Work (June 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Harry Pitts is a Digit associate fellow. Alongside others from the Co-working Research Collective (including Odul Bozkurt who is Digit co-lead for Research Theme 3), Harry wrote a blog post on: Alone, Together: Co-Working Spaces and the Covid-19 Crisis published in Futures of Work on 5 June 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://futuresofwork.co.uk/2020/06/05/alone-together-co-working-spaces-and-the-covid-19-crisis/ |
| Description | Jackie O'Reilly FEPS expert group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly was invited as part of the FEPS expert group on the Future of Europe Brainstorming meeting in January 2021. Her talk was on "Updating the European Economic & Social Model in Face of the Ecological & Digital Transformations" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Jackie O'Reilly at EHRC (March 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly spoke at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) seminar on Algorithms and AI on 4 March 2020. This led to further conversations with EHRC, and eventually David Perfect from EHRC joining the Digit Advisory Board as Chair. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Jackie O'Reilly at Sussex 'Brave New World' event (July 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly sat on a panel organised by the University of Sussex Alumni network on 30 July 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8soUuBd8RU |
| Description | Jackie O'Reilly in Soldo (April 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly was interviewed for this article in Soldo magazine. The title of the article was "More Trust, Less Fuss: An Interview with Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly's Team at DIGIT on Remote Working". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.soldo.com/gb/blog/more-trust-less-fuss-an-interview-with-digit-on-remote-working/ |
| Description | Jackie O'Reilly invited to industry engagement event (techUK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit co-Director Jackie O'Reilly participated in a panel for an event on The rise of the gig economy on 1 November 2022. The event was part of techUK's Exploring the Future of Work Series and was organised by Digit Advisory Board member Nimmi Patel. The panel explored the rise of the gig economy and its implications for the future workforce, how gig economy employers are supporting workers, and what steps the UK can take to drive standards across the gig economy and foster innovation. Professor O'Reilly discussed recent research on how employers were involved in negotiations and initiatives with unions like GMB on re-regulating this type of employment. She also highlighted Digit research on diversity of employment on platforms, especially for young people in the UK and Africa. Professor O'Reilly's co-edited book, Work in the Digital Age documents examples of best practice in the Nordic countries and in Canada. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/news_article/digit-co-director-presents-at-techuks-exploring-the-future-o... |
| Description | Jackie O'Reilly public lecture Bristol (Feb 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly gave a Public Lecture: International comparisons of work in the digital age on 5 February 2020. This was part of the Digital Societies, University of Bristol, and jointly organized with the Perspectives on Work Faculty Research Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.digitalsocieties.co.uk/events/public-lecture |
| Description | Jacqueline O'Reilly presented at University Advisory Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Digit Director Jacqueline O'Reilly presented Digit research to the University of Sussex Business School Advisory Board (members available here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/about/advisory-board) on the 25 January 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Jacqueline O'Reilly quoted in the Guardian (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jacqueline O'Reilly, co-director of Digit was quoted by the Guardian in an article on: How online meetings are levelling the office playing field, on 21 October 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/oct/22/how-online-meetings-are-levelling-the-office-playing-f... |
| Description | Jill Rubery at CIPD Festival of Work (June 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jill Rubery gave a talk titled "The Future after Furlough: what will happen to jobs & recruitment now?" at this CIPD Festival of Work webinar conference on 10 June 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cipd.co.uk/learn/events-networks/festival-of-work#gref |
| Description | Jill Rubery podcast (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jill Rubery was interviewed as part of this Original Thinking Podcast. The title of the podcast was "COVID-19 - Avoiding an employment cliff-edge". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://play.acast.com/s/original-thinkers-podcast/5af64579-c0ee-49ac-b58d-0f51324b0463 |
| Description | Jo Ingold - quoted and research highlighted in TechNews (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Jo Ingold is an associate fellow at Digit. She was quoted and her research was highlighted in TechNews inn an article on New job matching AI to revolutionise Australians' job prospects on the 9 December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/new-job-matching-ai-to-revolutionise-australians-job-prospe... |
| Description | Jo Ingold and David Robertshaw presented to Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was part of an additional funding project 'Welfare at a (Social) Distance', https://digit-research.org/research/related-projects/welfare-at-a-social-distance/. The Digit Innovation Fund that David Robertshaw was awarded (https://digit-research.org/research/related-projects/welfare-at-a-social-distance/ augmented this work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFznSvKzAls |
| Description | Jo Ingold and David Robertshaw presented to Institute of Employability Professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jo Ingold (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia) is Associate Fellow of Digit, and David Robertshaw (Leeds) is an Associate Fellow of Digit who was awarded a Digit Innovation Fund, presented at a Employability practitioner conference focused on technology of the Institute of Employability Professionals. Their talk was titled 'UK vs Australia: What are the lesson for digital employment services?' This was not a public event, so there is no URL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Jo Ingold and David Robertshaw spoke at NESA Conference (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jo Ingold (associate fellow at Digit) and David Robertshaw spoke at the National Employment Services Association (NESA) Conference 2021 in Canberra. They presented on Digitalisation of Employment Services on the 9 June 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/news_article/initial-research-findings-presented-at-the-national-employme... |
| Description | Mariana Fernandez Massi in online video (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mariana Fernandez Massi is a Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellow at Digit. Mariana talked about her research in an online video on Economía de plataformas: precarizadxs ya! (Platform economy: precarious now!) from Meta Crisis on the Low. Fi Youtube channel (in Spanish) on 12 June 2021. The video has generated 93 comments from the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47v6zJcXI9Y |
| Description | Mark Stuart &Jacqueline O'Reilly presented Digit research to Norwegian union |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Digit co-directors Mark Stuart and Jacqueline O'Reilly presented Digit research on AI in a retail setting and initial findings from the Digit employers' survey to HK Norge (The Union of Employees in Commerce and Offices, Norway) on the 9th December 2022 in London (hosted at the European Commission). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Mark Stuart (Soldo magazine) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In an interview with Soldo magazine titled "Rewriting the Social Contract: An Interview with Prof Mark Stuart", Mark discusses how remote working is no longer a nice-to-have: it's a part of modern business strategy and culture. Published April 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.soldo.com/gb/blog/rewriting-the-social-contract-fair-remote-working/ |
| Description | Mark Stuart in SME: Guidance for Business Growth (June 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mark Stuart was quoted in this article titled "The future of work - what the academics say", as was Petros Chamakiotis (Associate Researcher at Digit). Published 8 June 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.smeweb.com/2020/06/08/the-future-of-work-what-the-academics-say/?cli_action=1594367626.1... |
| Description | Mark Stuart quoted in article on BBC Worklife (March 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Mark Stuart (Leeds) is Co-Director of Digit. Mark was quoted on 25 March 2021 in an article titled 'The bosses who want us back in the office' in BBC Worklife. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210323-the-bosses-who-want-us-back-in-the-office |
| Description | Media coverage of Digital poverty in the UK report (Faith & Hernandez) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This is a press release by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), about the research of Becky Faith (Digit Co-I) and Kevin Hernandez (Digit Researcher) in their report, 'Digital Poverty in the UK'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ids.ac.uk/news/new-ids-research-shows-poorest-households-trapped-in-digital-poverty-cycl... |
| Description | Media coverage of HBR article (Emma Russell, Caroline Murphy, Esme Terry) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Emma Russell (Digit Co-I), Dr Caroline Murphy (Digit Associate Fellow) and Esme Terry (Digit Research Fellow), wrote an article for HBR on the 4 day work week, and this was highlighted in this article for Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The article was titled, 'What Employers Should Know Before Trying a 4-Day Workweek' on 5 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-relations/pages/what-employers-should-know... |
| Description | Odul Bozkurt invited to speak at CIPD event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ödül Bozkurt (Digit Co-I) presented, 'The New Essentials: Future of Work after the Great Experiment,' to the CIPD Sussex Branch AGM on 8 June 2022. This included discussing: Equity and perceived fairness in the workplace vs those who can work remotely and those who can't. When remote working doesn't work - who suffers and why? How can remote working benefit the wider society and local communities? How can remote working impact on the ability of leaders and managers when - > measuring the performance of their workers? > developing their emotional intelligence? > creating psychologically safe environments? As Dr Ödül Bozkurt pointed out, there is a wealth of knowledge in the room ranging from highly skilled HRM, L&D, Mentors, Coaching and Training practitioners and they are the right people to come together to provide the solutions and support the 'new normal' requires. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6940978570156503040/ |
| Description | Petros & Dimitra blog (The hidden mechanisms for online community growth) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Petros Chamakiotis and Dimitra Petrakaki (and another colleague) wrote a blog for the LSE Business Review titled "The hidden mechanisms for online community growth" and published 17 December 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/12/17/the-hidden-mechanism-for-online-community-growth/ |
| Description | Petros Chamakiotis and Dimitra Petrakaki on Research Outreach (April 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Petros Chamakiotis (Digit associate fellow) and Dimitra Petrakaki (Digit co-lead for research them 3) wrote an article in Research Outreach on: Creating social value in online communities through digital activism on 13 April 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://researchoutreach.org/articles/creating-social-value-online-communities-digital-activism/ |
| Description | Petros blog on LSE (April 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Associate Research Petros Chamakiotis wrote "How to 'go virtual' as efficiently and painlessly as possible" on the LSE blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/04/16/how-to-go-virtual-as-efficiently-and-painlessly-as... |
| Description | Podcast (Chris Forde & Mark Stuart, Feb 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professors Chris Forde and Mark Stuart give an overview of the impact of digital technologies and how they might replace jobs, create new types of jobs, and change the nature of the way we work. This podcast is part of the Leeds University Business School podcast series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/leedsunibschool/technologies-in-the-workplace |
| Description | Podcast with Astrid Krenz (TwentyTwenty, Dec 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This episode of TwentyTwenty explores the prospects of an increasingly automated world that has grown even more so in the wake of COVID-19 induced supply chain breakdowns. Now more than ever before, we must ask ourselves "what is the value of work?". This week's interviewees: Dr. Astrid Krenz, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre at the University of Sussex. Maya Markovich, Chief Growth Officer for Nextlaw Labs, the legal technology catalyst for global law firm Dentons Published December 2020. Full transcript is found here: https://foreignbrief.com/twentytwenty-podcast/twentytwenty-episode-vi-automation-acceleration/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://anchor.fm/foreign-brief/episodes/Automation-Acceleration-enpmmr |
| Description | Research highlighted in EDOS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article "Norway is last in building AI competence" in EDOS weekly newsletter on research on digitalization - week 26 highlighted research of Jackie O'Reilly, Astrid Krenz and Richard Dickens. Authoritarian leadership is actually hard to do well; Norway is an AI laggard; pragmatic social innovation of public services + the nature of problems, psychological safety in your own home (office) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://enedos.substack.com/p/edos-2022-week-26 |
| Description | SASE 2020 (Ioulia Bessa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ioulia Bessa presented a paper titled, "Trends in Collective Action, Organising and Mobilisations in the Platform Economy" on 20 July 2020 at the SASE 2020 conference (virtual). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/15890 |
| Description | SASE 2020 (Jackie O'Reilly - Future of Work Roundtable) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly was a discussant on a panel titled 'Roundtable: Future of Work', on 21 July 2020 (virtually) along with Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven - Centre for Sociological Research Employment (Industrial) and Labour Market Studies), Rita Samiolo (King's College), Christopher Land-Kazlauskas (International Labour Office) and Moderator Chiara Benassi (LSE). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/4772 |
| Description | SASE 2020 (Jackie O'Reilly - Women & Gender Forum) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jacqueline O'Reilly presented at the Women and Gender Forum meeting within the SASE 2020 conference (virtually) on 19 July 2020. This led to a joint event as part of Digit Debates (and ESRC Festival of Social Science) titled "The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain" and presented by Francesca Sobande on 11 November 2020 (https://digit-research.org/events/digit-events-1/the-digital-lives-of-black-women-in-britain/). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/4935 |
| Description | SASE 2020 (Steve Rolf) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Steve Rolf gave a talk at SASE 2020 titled 'Corralling Globalisation: China's Uneven and Combined Development and Geopolitical Economy' on 21 July 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/15235 |
| Description | SASE 2020 (Wil Hunt) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr William Hunt gave a presentation on 19 July 2020 at SASE 2020 titled 'The Impact of AI and Automation on Work and Jobs at a Firm Level: Evidence from a Survey of UK Business Leaders'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/15718 |
| Description | STOA report blog (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | David Spencer (Leeds) is a Co-I at Digit. This blog was based on the report to the European Parliament, 'Digital automation and the future of work'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-aire/dir-record/research-blog/1856/robots-are-not-coming-to-st... |
| Description | Sam Roscoe Business Reporter article (March 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe wrote this article for the Business Reporter, titled "How Coronavirus is disrupting key supply chains when we need them the most" in March 2020. Sam had several other articles and interviews in a similar time period, including giving evidence in UK Parliament. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.business-reporter.co.uk/2020/03/25/how-coronavirus-is-disrupting-key-supply-chains-when-... |
| Description | Sam Roscoe European Pharmaceutical Review article (April 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe wrote this article, titled "Limiting shortages: steps for the UK to strengthen drug supply" and published on 8 April 2020. Sam had several other articles and interviews in a similar time period, including giving evidence in UK Parliament. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/article/116439/limiting-shortages-steps-for-the-uk-to-s... |
| Description | Sam Roscoe LSE Business Review blog (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe wrote this blog, titled "The future of UK supply chains in a disrupted world: Brexit and Covid-19", for the LSE Business Review which was published on 19 May 2020. Sam had several other articles and interviews in a similar time period, including giving evidence in UK Parliament. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/05/19/the-future-of-uk-supply-chains-in-a-disrupted-worl... |
| Description | Sam Roscoe UKTPO Blog (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe wrote this blog for the UK Trade Policy Observatory titled, "Building Supply Chain Resilience: a reflection on 'Project Defend' and the reshoring of manufacturing". Sam had several other articles and interviews in a similar time period, including giving evidence in UK Parliament. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/2020/05/28/building-supply-chain-resilience-a-reflection-on-project... |
| Description | Sam Roscoe interviewed on CNBC (October 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe (Summer Schools and International Exchanges Coordinator at Digit) was interviewed and discussed the affect of labour shortage on UK supply chains for an article on CNBC (Gas crisis, labor shortages and supply chain chaos: Post-Brexit Britain faces a difficult winter) on 18 October 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/gas-crisis-labor-shortages-and-supply-chain-chaos-post-brexit-britai... |
| Description | Sam Roscoe interviewed on TechMonitor (October 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe is Summer Schools and International Exchanges Coordinator at Digit. Sam was interviewed and discussed role of digital technologies in global supply chains for an article (Can digital technology prevent supply chain disruptions?) on TechMonitor on the 6 October in 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://techmonitor.ai/leadership/strategy/can-digital-technology-prevent-supply-chain-disruptions |
| Description | Sam Roscoe podcast (Dec 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe was one of 2 guests on this half hour podcast for Business Class: Money Minutes. The podcast was titled "Futureproofing Your Supply Chain Against Costly Disruption" and published on 17 December 2020. Sam had several other articles and interviews in a similar time period, including giving evidence in UK Parliament. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://omny.fm/shows/business-class-money-minutes/futureproofing-your-supply-chain-against-costly-d... |
| Description | Sam Roscoe quoted in Observer (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sam Roscoe was quoted in this article in the Observer newspaper. The article was titled "Drug manufacturing must be brought to UK, NHS bosses and charities tell MPs" and was published on 10 May 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/10/bring-drug-manufacturing-to-uk-nhs-mps?CMP=Share_iO... |
| Description | Several events for Kendra Briken on her IF research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kendra Briken was awarded a Digit Innovation Fund award (Round 2) on a project titled, 'The Care Necessities - Developing Inclusive Digital Technologies for Scotland's Post Pandemic Social Care'. She & her Co-Is had several events and engagements as part of this, including: * Participation in the Digifest Conference, "Digital and the Social Care Workforce" session, co-organised by Scottish Government and Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland, on "Increasing the workforce voice in digitization"; November 2021 (64 participants, including social care and NHS practitioners, social care employer representatives, and Scottish Government representatives in Technology Enabled Care. Presentation is here at 42 mins in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPYzpiGlN4&list=PLeWBvqBEAvRDFeSkX8_YbZg6o1sUIZUtX?dex=23 * Discussion with "Digital Health Technologies Community of Practice", May 2022 (IT professionals from voluntary sector care organisations, local authorities, heath and social care partnerships) * Presentation and discussion with Scottish Government representatives and voluntary sector social care practitioners of the HR Forum for the Voluntary Sector, "Engage with Strathclyde" * Presentation and discussion with participants in the "Glasgow Council for Voluntary Organisations", September 2022 (19 participants, including representatives of care providers, Social Work Scotland, Care Inspectorate, SSSC), https://www.gcvs.org.uk/whats-on/digital-technologies-in-voluntary-sector-social-care-organisations/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPYzpiGlN4&list=PLeWBvqBEAvRDFeSkX8_YbZg6o1sUIZUtX&index=23 |
| Description | Simon Deakin blog for Association Française de Droit du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Simon Deakin wrote a blog for Association Française de Droit du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale titled "Pourquoi le Covid-19 pourrait etre un tournant pour le droit du travail" in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.afdt-asso.fr/regards-12 |
| Description | Soldo article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jackie O'Reilly, Mark Stuart, Emma Russell and Petros Chamakiotis were all interviewed for an article in Soldo magazine in an article titled "From Emergency to Empowerment" which was published in April 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.soldo.com/gb/guides/special-report-our-remote-working-future-revealed/ |
| Description | Steven Rolf - Blog for IFOW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Research Fellow Steven Rolf wrote a blog post for the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW) on Evri, Uber, Deliveroo: Does collective bargaining guarantee a baseline of 'good work' for platform workers? on the 12 August 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ifow.org/news-articles/evri-uber-deliveroo-collective-bargaining |
| Description | Steven Rolf at the Roundtable podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Digit Research Fellow Steven Rolf talked about his research on State Platform Capitalism in a podcast called The Roundtable on 11 January 2023. The research in question is based on paper: The US-China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X221146545). The Roundtable by Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler explores the histories and grounded realities of geopolitical rivalry from the Cold War to the present. We host conversations about how competition affects places, people, and politics around the world to foster more nuanced and open debate on geopolitical rivalry. The Roundtable is part of the Second Cold War Observatory, a global collective of scholars committed to understanding how great power rivalry will influence societies, economies, and ecologies worldwide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.buzzsprout.com/2073475/12026425-2-steve-rolf-on-state-platform-capitalism |
| Description | Talk at 72nd Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) conference (June 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Simon Joyce presented at the 72nd Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) conference (June 2020) a paper titled, "Global Struggle: Worker Organising and Protest in Platform Work". The paper was co-written with other Digit colleagues (Mark Stuart, Dennis Neumann, Vera Trappmann, Charles Umney, Ioulia Bessa, Denis Neumann). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Vera Trappmann - webinar at Freie Univerität (January 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vera Trappmann (Digit associate fellow, University of Leeds) and Dennis Neumann (Digit Doctoral Researcher, University of Leeds) delivered a webinar on: Social Protest and Social Protection of Platform Work in Eastern Europe at Freie Univerität on the 26 January 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Wil Hunt - research highlighted in University of Sussex Research News (2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wil Hunt is a research fellow at Digit. Carried out alongside Sudipa Sarkar and Chris Warhurst (Warwick Institute for Employment Research), Wil's research on on: Under a quarter of firms report that introducing AI has led to a loss of jobs was highlighted in University of Sussex Research News on 21 December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/research/news?id=57001#list |
| Description | Wil Hunt blog for SRHE (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wil Hunt wrote this blog titled "Paid, unpaid and hidden internships: still a barrier to social mobility" and published on 14 May 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://srheblog.com/2020/05/14/paid-unpaid-and-hidden-internships/ |
| Description | Wil Hunt, Steven Rolf, Rachel Verdin presented at Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Digit Research Fellows Wil Hunt and Steven Rolf alongside EUROSHIP Research Fellow Rachel Verdin presented their research on "Back to the dark ages? Rapid delivery in retail - notes from a study in progress" to the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee - Commerce Sector Social Dialogue Meeting hosted at the European Commission on the 1 December 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | William Hunt & colleagues presented Digit research at Impact Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Digit and Euroship Research Fellows (William Hunt, Rachel Verdin, Steve Rolf, Astrid Krenz, Ann McDonnell) presented their work at a stand during the 'Research Staff Showcase' at the Research with Impact Day at the University of Sussex on the 7 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/research/rqi/rqi_information_and_support/rqi_events/researchwithimpact... |
| Description | Zahira Jaser & Dimitra Petrakaki coverage on AI in job interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Zahira Jaser (Sussex) is an Associate Fellow of Digit, and Dimitra Petrakaki (Sussex) is a Co-I of Digit. Artificial Intelligence in the job interview process - Zahira & Dimitra, with other colleagues, produced research that "has revealed a complex and opaque picture of the use of AI in hiring processes and highlights a lack of transparency about the processes involved in AI interviews and a lack of understanding about how young jobseekers are affected." Coverage is found here: Where Automated Job Interviews Fall Short, Digit website: https://digit-research.org/research/related-projects/where-automated-job-interviews-fall-short/ Artificial Intelligence in the job interview process, 2021, University of Sussex Business School [https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/research/centres-projects/aijobinterviews] Interview on BBC News, 30/11/2021, BBC [Accessed from here: https://twitter.com/SussexUniPress/status/1466082787073658892] AI is making applying for jobs even more miserable, 30 November 2021, FT [https://www.ft.com/content/a81245ee-9916-47e2-81b9-846e9403be00] Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the job interview process: Toolkit for employers, careers advisors and hiring platforms, 1 November 2021, Institute of Employment Studies [https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/artificial-intelligence-ai-job-interview-process] AI fails at its job interview, 5 February 2022, The Week [https://theweek.com/business/1009771/ai-fails-its-job-interview] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/research/related-projects/where-automated-job-interviews-fall-short/ |
| Description | Ödül Bozkurt & Harry Pitts organised a workshop on Co-working |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digit Co-I Ödül Bozkurt and Digit Associate Fellow Harry Pitts co-organised the Coworking and the Future of Work - Extending the Debate , Research and Stakeholder Workshop. This workshop took place in person in Brighton on 21 & 22 October 2022 and was supported by The Coworking Research Collective (CORECOL). It aimed to discuss ongoing and recent research projects about coworking and the future of work, broadly conceived, and to engage with practitioners from the coworking sector to understand the current developments 'on the ground'. We shared ideas, compared notes, offered interventions and collectively contributed to the consolidation and expansion of a research agenda around coworking as an empirically and theoretically significant phenomenon under contemporary capitalism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digit-research.org/news_article/coworking-and-the-future-of-work-workshop/ |