🎉 Meet Prof Damian Grimshaw supported by the Marie Jahoda Innovation Fund 2026! His project examines platform-based data labelling in India, Kenya, the UK & USA, revealing how caste, class, gender & race shape microwork at the heart of AI value chains.

Part two of our Student Series. Phreesha Udani, Keya Chag & Jamie Trentham on always-on culture, performative wellbeing, and AI-driven employee grievances landing on HR's desk. 🔗 digit-research.org/blog/why-can...

🎉 Meet Dr Zahira Jaser, supported by the Marie Jahoda Innovation Fund 2026! Her project asks: who gets excluded by AI-powered hiring? It examines how Automated Video Interview platforms are designed, and what that means for fairness in recruitment. digit-research.org/projects/whe...

New Digit blog: Is AI at work a "resource" or a demand in disguise? Our new blog argues that AI isn't reducing workload, it's shifting and stacking it, and the heaviest adopters may be burning out fastest. 🔗https://digit-research.org/blog/is-ai-at-work-a-demand-disguised-as-a-resource/

🎉 Meet @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social supported by the Marie Jahoda Innovation Fund 2026! His project compares "green" data centre development in China, South Africa & the UK, testing whether promises of jobs and growth for peripheral regions hold up in reality. 🔗 digit-research.org/marie-jahoda...

📌 ICYMI: inside one of the world's most digitally advanced factories, the managers who made transformation actually work weren't chasing speed, they were practising patience. Learn more: digit-research.org/blog/practic...

👏 Meet one of our Marie Jahoda Innovation Fund supported projects ‘From Ghost Work to Expert Work’, led by Wei Wei, from the University of Sussex Business School! Her research explores data workers in China's AI value chain! Learn more: digit-research.org/marie-jahoda...

Wage theft is a structural feature of capitalism, and it's accelerating in the digital age. A new Digit blog argues we need to rethink wage theft as a question of justice: What is the right or just amount to pay workers for the work that they do? Learn more: digit-research.org/blog/wage-th...

The challenges of the digital transformation in the food manufacturing sector are about a management skills gap. Managers face unique challenges: Careful technology selection, production and skills redesign, and the development of new capabilities. 🔗 digit-research.org/blog/managem...

Today's workplace hazards aren't physical, they're digital. A new Digit blog argues that we need legislated digital health and safety standards fit for the hyper-connected workplace: digit-research.org/blog/is-indi...

🏥 How is the NHS approaching flexible working? Flexible working thrives when work design is agile and digital, and when it meets both people’s and organisational needs. Success hinges on managers who embrace customisation and learning as they go. 🔗 digit-research.org/blog/lets-th...

Digit-funded research features in a new report on disability at work, showing remote/hybrid working can be essential for disabled & neurodivergent employees to enter and stay in work. Learn more: digit-research.org/news/digit-r...

ICYM New Digit research maps the financial exposure of semiconductor firms, charting how ownership structures, debt, and foreign-currency liabilities shape vulnerability across the ecosystem. 🔗 digit-research.org/insights/sem...

💡How can the UK close its digital skills gap? At the IPT House of Commons breakfast, Digit’s Co-Director Jacqueline O’Reilly shared research on workforce upskilling challenges and solutions. More: digit-research.org/news/jacquel...

Jacqueline O'Reilly addresses Industry and Parliament Trust breakfast on digital skills

Digit Co-Director Professor Jacqueline O'Reilly spoke at an IPT House of Commons event on bridging the UK’s digital skills gap, discussing Digit research and strategies for upskilling the workforce fo...

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AI and algorithmic management are reshaping work across Europe, and workers are bearing the cost. A Digit blog argues that the EU's Quality Jobs Act must be backed by binding AI legislation, stronger union rights, and a serious industrial policy. 🔗 Learn more: digit-research.org/blog/how-big...

Digit is offering a fully funded PhD studentship at Leeds University Business School. This studentship will explore how employee voice can be developed in workplace digital transformation, with a focus on AI. Deadline: Friday 3 July 2026. Apply now: digit-research.org/news/new-ful...

What does it really take to guide people through digital transformation in manufacturing? Our research at one of the world’s most advanced factories found its organisational patience. When leaders practise active patience, efficiency improves. Learn more: digit-research.org/blog/practic...

🚀 New Digit research introduces a new way to measure financial vulnerability in supply chains. By combining financial and corporate data, researchers developed a risk score, offering a clear metric for reliance on foreign capital. 🔗 digit-research.org/insights/sem...

Can local government do more to address the quality of local jobs in the face of rapid technological change? At our next Digit Debates event we'll be discussing evidence from research into the Yorkshire warehousing industry. 📆Tues 31 March ⏰12-13.30 Register: digit-research.org/events/how-c...

How can local government shape the future of work in deindustrialised regions?

This event presents findings from a study exploring work in the Yorkshire warehousing industry.

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What does the digital transformation of work look like from your perspective? In our first Digit CoLab Insights briefing, we report on the key insights from our first CoLab, bringing together voices from business, policy, trade unions and civil society. digit-research.org/insights/eme...

Last day today of our Early Bird Registration for the International Labour Process Conference here in Leeds (22-24 April). Standard tickets will continue to be available until 15 March. store.leeds.ac.uk/conferences-...

Our Marie Jahoda Innovation Fund is open to applications! We are looking for 🔎innovative research projects, up to a year in length 👩‍💻aligned with our research programme on the digitalisation of work 🤝keen to see applications including stakeholder engagement Apply: digit-research.org/marie-jahoda...

Don't miss our next Digit Debates event. 🧐Will the Employment Rights Act make work pay? 📆25 Feb ⏰12.30-2pm GMT 🎙️Prof Simon Deakin, @christinecarter900.bsky.social, Kamelia Pourkermani, @timsharp.bsky.social ➡️Register: digit-research.org/events/will-...

A new report, commissioned by the Department for Business and Trade, and co-authored by a team of Digit researchers, benchmarks the protection afforded by new UK rights against those across the OECD. www.gov.uk/government/p...

📖 🎉 Congratulations to Digit Research Fellow Steve Rolf who has co-authored a new book with Seth Schindler, ‘State Platform Capitalism: The United States, China, and the Global Battle for Digital Supremacy’. It is available open access and is free to read: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

❓ How might using AI-enabled technologies at work affect workers' pay? Earlier today, Prof. @vdanat.bsky.social joined the latest session of the APPG on the Future of Work, ‘Good jobs and regional growth: Building inclusive innovation systems’.

📣 How can AI reshape work – and what does this mean for gender equality? Digit Research Fellow Rachel Verdin joined the Women and Work APPG session on AI and the gender gap, convened by Lauren Sullivan MP on 25 Nov. 🧵

We are offering another PhD studentship, this one being part of the Economics PhD programme at the University of Sussex Business School: 💻 The Impact of Digital Transformation on Skills, Wages, and Career Trajectories in the United Kingdom 🔗 www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

If you missed our final Digit Debates event of the Autumn 2025 series, ‘Beyond the AI Act. Implementation challenges in EU AI regulation’ with @flogsell.bsky.social you can now watch a recording on our website: digit-research.org/events/beyon...

✍️ NEW BLOG! ‘Five key demands for a worker-friendly rollout of AI in retail’ @steverolf.bsky.social, Rachel Verdin, and Wil Hunt on how trade unions can negotiate for better outcomes for retail workers. Read the blog: digit-research.org/blog/five-ke...