📣 How are SMEs using generative AI today? Can it help address labour and skill challenges? If you missed our second Autumn 2025 Digit Debates event, ‘Generative AI: A solution to the SME skills challenge?’, you can now watch a recording on our website: digit-research.org/events/gener...

📣 PhD opportunities! Digit is offering two PhD studentships with stipends and UK fees covered. The application deadline for both is 9 January 2026. These studentships are part of the Management Integrated PhD programme at the @sussexunibusiness.bsky.social. 🧵👇

📣 How are SMEs using generative AI today? Can it help address labour and skill challenges? In the second Digit Debates event of our Autumn 2025 series, Marguerita Lane (OECD), will present findings from a new @oecdsocial.bsky.social report, Generative AI and the SME Workforce: New Survey Evidence.

📣 How is AI affecting workers in the retail sector? And what should Unions be doing about it? If you missed the first Digit Debates event of our Autumn 2025 Series, ‘AI in Retail: What unions need to know’, you can now watch a recording on our website: digit-research.org/events/ai-in...

📣 How is AI affecting workers in the retail sector? And what should Unions be doing about it? Our first Digit Debates event of our Autumn 2025 Series will launch a new handbook on AI in retail work for unions operating in the sector. Register: digit-research.org/events/ai-in... More info 👇

We were thrilled to co-host the second annual DAISY symposium at the University of Sussex on 13 & 14 October. Find out more: digit-research.org/news/sussex-...

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026! This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system. UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...

📣 Don’t miss a fantastic line-up of speakers in the autumn 2025 #DigitDebates series! ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) is jointly led by the Business School and Leeds University Business School. Register now: https://digit-research.org/events/#DigitDebates

📣 Registration is live for our autumn 2025 #DigitDebates series Join us from Wednesday 22 October, for three excellent talks on how digital technologies are changing work. 🧵

Last Friday, we launched the first-ever Digit CoLab Forum, a new space for shaping inclusive research on the digital transformation of work. Industry, government, and civil society voices joined us to kick off this exciting journey.

Huge thanks to everyone from government, industry, charities, and trade unions who joined us today for the first #DigitCoLab. 🧵

In today’s digitalised #workplace, many workers are #hyperconnected, extending work time to all hours of the day & night. Emma Russell & Becky Faith @sussex.ac.uk discuss the consequences of this & present four principles for “decent work connectivity” @lsebr.bsky.social @digitcentre.bsky.social

Digit Project Co-Leads Emma Russell and Becky Faith have had a blog, ‘The always-on work culture and its consequences’, published by LSE Business Review.

Voting closes this Sunday!

📣 ‪‪NHS Employers‬ have published a report, ‘Work indifference: a sign of burnout for agile workers that reduces staff support and empathy’, authored by Dr Emma Russell, Dr Smadar Cohen-Chen and Deepali D’Mello, as part of @agilabsussex.bsky.social

🤖 Tired of seeing AI visualised as neon brains and creepy cyborgs? Us too. So, alongside Anything is Possible Media and Jagged Edge AI, we've proposed a #SXSWEDU 2026 talk to rethink how AI is visualised. 🗳️ Talks are partly chosen by public vote: participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

🎉 Congratulations to Charmaine Wellington (Digit PhD student), who won the Judges’ Award and the People’s Choice Award at the South & East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS) Three Minute Thesis Competition!

📣 👏 Congratulations to Digit Project Co-Lead Prof. Adrian Smith, whose new book is published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.‬ Find out more: digit-research.org/news/new-boo...

Researchers from Digit and the International Labour Organization (ILO) came together in Geneva for a joint workshop to share insights and explore opportunities for collaboration. 🧵

📣 Congratulations to the winners of our competition with @betterimagesofai.bsky.social seeking better images of the ‘digital transformation at work’! Grand Prize winner: Yutong Liu’s ‘Digital Nomads: Across Time’. Yutong Liu & Digit / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

✍️ NEW BLOG! ‘Why Generative AI is (some) middle-agers’ best friend’ by Ödül Bozkurt, Dimitrinka Stoyanova Russell, and Christopher Russell. digit-research.org/blog/why-gen...

You might notice that Digit looks a bit different. We've updated our website to help make it easier to find the research and insights you are looking for.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the inaugural Margaret Boden Annual Lecture in Interdisciplinary AI earlier this week, held at ‪@sussexunibusiness.bsky.social‬ and chaired by our Co-Director ‪@jackieo99.bsky.social‬.‬‬‬‬

What does digital inclusion really mean for disabled volunteers? The Digitvol research project, led by Digit Innovation Fund holder Daiga Kamerāde, created a short video on the digital inclusion of disabled volunteers. salford.figshare.com/articles/med...

📣 Registration is now open for the inaugural Margaret Boden Annual Lecture in Interdisciplinary AI, ‘Thinking Creatively and Critically in the Age of AI’, which will be delivered by Peter Danenberg (Senior Software Engineer, Google DeepMind). 🔗 Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

📣 Call for papers: Second international symposium on ‘Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Work and Employment’ 🔗 Find out more and download the call for papers: digit-research.org/news_article...

With digital at the heart of government public service reform, our Co-Director @jackieo99.bsky.social will be speaking at the Think Digital Government conference on 20 May.

✍️ NEW BLOG! ‘Recruiters for AI and green jobs prioritise skills over traditional degrees’ by Matthew Bone, Eugenia González Ehlinger and Fabian Stephany digit-research.org/blog_article...

📣 How are platform workers protected in law around the world? You can now watch the recording of Professor Simon Deakin presenting the newly created Cambridge Centre for Business Research Platform Work Index, developed as part of Digit. Link and more info in the thread 🧵👇

📣 Digit funded researcher designs toolkit to help organisations support disabled and/or neurodivergent staff to work from home

📣 Read the new Digit Data Commentary, ‘Labour rights in the digital economy: A first look at the CBR Platform Work Index’, by Louise Bishop, Christine Carter, Simon Deakin and Kamelia Pourkermani.

📣 Digit Debates: ‘Worker status? Comparing legal protections for platform workers around the world’ Register for next Tuesday’s event: digit-research.org/event/digit-...

Many thanks to everyone who came to the APPG event on 'skills for a thriving economy' this afternoon. Superb expert discussion with Lord Jim Knight, Lauren Edwards MP, Dan Howl (BCS), Donna Ford-Clarke (Pearson) and Lizzie Crowley from CIPD. Excellent input from the floor too.

📣 OPEN FOR ENTRIES: Art competition to create more realistic stock images of ‘digital transformation at work’ 🔔 Closes: 18/05/25 🏆 Monetary prizes 🌍 Global competition 🔗 Read the brief: blog.betterimagesofai.org/open-competi...

What is the relationship between work indifference and burnout? That was the question discussed at the latest agiLab NHS mini-conference last week, led by Dr Emma Russell.

🚀 Exciting news! agiLab, a research-practice collaboration led by Digit Co-Investigator Dr Emma Russell, has been named a 2025 ‘Innovation That Inspires’ honouree by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)!

📣 Digit Debates: ‘Worker status? Comparing legal protections for platform workers around the world’ Register: digit-research.org/event/digit-...

Our Digit Debates webinar series presents cutting-edge research from leading thinkers about how digital technologies are changing work. You can find the full catalogue since November 2020 on our website: digit-research.org/events/digit... This catalogue includes...

📝 Digit funded research cited in Senedd committee report on the disability employment gap ‘Anything’s Achievable with the Right Support: Tackling the Disability Employment Gap’: business.senedd.wales/documents/s1... #NeurodiversityWeek #NCW #ThisIsND

📢 Digit researchers meet with Minister for the Future Digital Economy We were honoured to meet with Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Minister for the Future Digital Economy and Online Safety, during her recent visit to @sussex.ac.uk. 🧵👇

Our Data Commentaries provide in-depth analysis of the latest data showing how digital technologies are changing work. Take a look in the thread below 👇 🧵

💡📝 Since late 2023, we've published six Policy Briefs highlighting key insights from our research. Take a look at the list in the thread below 👇🧵

🌐 Help us improve our website! We’re making changes to Digit’s website – and we’d love your input. Take our two-minute survey to tell us what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see. Complete the survey here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/XKK9S9B

📣 PhD opportunities! Digit is offering two PhD studentships with stipends and UK fees covered, both of which will begin this year. The application deadline is 17 March 2025. These studentships are part of the Management Integrated PhD programme at the University of Sussex Business School. 🧵👇

🏥 🛜 Social Science & Medicine Special Issue: ‘Resistance, tensions and consent to digital working in healthcare’ Read the Special Issue’s editorial: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📄 Looking for cutting-edge research on the future of work? Catch up with recent journal articles by some of our Digit researchers in this thread! 🧵

📣 New Digit Policy Brief! Daiga Kamerāde, Andrew Clark, Christine Goodall, Christine Parker, Cristina Vasilica, and John Yuen explore the digital exclusion of disabled adults from voluntary (and paid) work. Read the brief: digit-research.org/publication/...

🎉 It was fantastic to kick off 2025 with an event to mark both the culmination of five years of research and the start of our next phase, exploring the ongoing digital transformation of work.

📣 Call for papers! ✨DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 📅 Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025 📍 University of Leeds, UK ‼️ Abstract submission deadline: 7th March 2025 📧 Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email to: [email protected] www.linkedin.com/posts/esme-t...

Are you interested in how the use AI as a research tool is (and isn't) changing the practice of science? If the answer is "yes!" and you also happen to be an early career researcher, then the following fellowship opportunity might be for you. www.ukri.org/opportunity/...