Join us for a full day of discussion on fairness, privacy, and worker autonomy in the age of AI. 🗓️01 July 2026 ⏰9.30-16.30 📍University of Greenwich, SE109LS We bring together leading academics and industry practitioners - Kate Vredenburgh, Tom Parr, Flore Vromman, Thomas Ferretti, Chioma Nwankwo

The hidden career power of Employment Relations blogs.lse.ac.uk/management/2...

The @workersobservatory.org is happy to sign this joint statement calling for stronger protections in the proposed ILO Convention + Recommendation: privacyinternational.org/advocacy/569...

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Remarkable that California's fast-food minimum wage had no effect on jobs Given its relatively high "bite" and partial coverage (large chains only), employers and consumers could have shifted toward lower-wage alternatives, but it appears they didn't

Calling all Phd students and supervisors at DTA Future Societies Universities - apply for a free 1 day interactive workshop on the use of AI in doctoral research. Practical aspects, ethics and PGR/supervisors relationship. Travel reimburs. available for PGRs. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artificial...

You are warmly invited to the 16th annual Mary Douglas Seminar which will take place at the University of Greenwich. 📍28 May 2026, 12:30-5pm, Queen Anne 165, Greenwich Campus 💻29 May 2026, 12:45-5.30pm, Online Register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-dougl...

Calling all Phd students and supervisors at DTA Future Societies Universities - apply for a free 1 day interactive workshop on the use of AI in doctoral research. Practical aspects, ethics and PGR/supervisors relationship. Travel reimburs. available for PGRs. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artificial...

The reality for us teachers is that a student is not even willing to write Acknowledgements without completely delegating it to Generative AI.

Come to see this event on the beautiful Greenwich campus, or see you online! In any case, sign up here:

After brief AI-assisted sessions, participants performed significantly worse + were significantly more likely to give up on problems once the AI was removed, compared to participants who never had AI assistance. ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistanc...

"Locally, unfair app-based working conditions for people such as delivery riders and care staff are being tackled by an impressive Edinburgh project, The Workers Observatory..." www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🚨 The UK became less unequal because doctors became less well-paid (among lots and lots of other reasons) www.ft.com/content/8f27...

‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher | Film share.google/YCdzHcJtOSs7...

The problem with the growth mindset by @thomascurran.bsky.social youtu.be/ByAwcnuPUA8?...

See my fantastic colleagues' paper on night work and the impact on social reproductive time from the rail and postal sectors. 👇

CREW Hybrid Research Seminar: The Labour Market in 2026 ⏰14-17 Tue 5th May Speakers: David Freeman, Office for National Statistics Tim Butcher, Low Pay Commission Katherine Heffernan, Incomes Data Research Dr Thomas Ferretti, University of Greenwich Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crew-resea...

Parenthood marks a sharp divergence in academic careers: share.google/jNXNHZvpJnW0...

Great book - here's my review, hot off the @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social press!

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

Useful, practical.

ITALY: Arms factory workers say no to war newint.org/arms/2026/it...

Palantir poses a clear risk to privacy, democracy and human rights and shouldn't be let anywhere near the NHS. news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...

🚨Save Languages at the University of Essex 🚨 #langsky #linguistics UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter: tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...

⏳ One week to go! ✍️ The ETUI is looking for an Education Officer to lead its European Works Councils (#EWC) training within the Education Department. 👉 Apply now: etui.org/43J 🚨 Deadline: 20 March 2026

We should not dismiss these as the rambling words of an insane person, even if that's what they look. We need to remember that these people have huge power already, and we must resist any attempt to give them more.

“I now talk about AI with my students not under the framework of cheating or academic honesty but in terms that are frankly existential” www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Even if AI doesn’t hit jobs in a big way, unemployment is starting to re-emerge as a policy issue. So it’s good that @sarahoconnorft.ft.com reminds us how low our unemployment benefits are, and how this can lead to people taking jobs below their skill level www.ft.com/content/771a...

My colleague Ratnes Alahakone is looking for participants in her study on Sexual Wellness: A New Frontier in Employee Wellbeing at Work. You can sign up here: form.typeform.com/to/Vrfb7oXF

Can someone share this with Starmer?

‘We remain deeply concerned that universities will be unable to absorb the cost of the levy’s introduction. The loss of cross-subsidy for domestic teaching & research will harm universities’ ability to deliver their core functions’ Our response to the levy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

How to battle the normalisation of populist neo-fascism youtu.be/Z5J7J1mvYtc?...

"Managers may prefer to see people at desks, but for many who take jobs while carefully calculating rents, house prices, commuting costs and childcare complexities, flexibility is not a nice-to-have feature but the difference between taking and leaving a job." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Collateral damage' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself share.google/CjcdXejrMQyJ...

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This is good on where things are, but I’m not sure that in lots of cases higher ed has ever really been about the ‘transmission of knowledge’: how many humanities undergrads who go off into work really retain the subject-level knowledge? Thinking and writing have always been more important.

For women,these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded [...] a salutary insights into what a set of distinguished global figures think and say about women when they assume the women aren’t listening. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

ADVICE: If universities want their journals to be sustainable, and to serve scholarship well, three practical implications follow. First, treat journals as infrastructure. Second, invest in metadata as a public good. Third, recognise diversity as a feature, not a failure.

BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

🔶New issue of Futures of Work. This issue explores how borders shape workers’ lives, treating them not as neutral lines but as contested and ideological forces. The articles show how bordering practices structure labour mobility and inequality. futuresofwork.co.uk

We stand in solidarity with EU countries. Together, we are holding online platforms accountable. Online platforms bring many benefits, but they also pose risks: 🔴 Harmful content 🔴 Addictive features 🔴 Threats to children, consumers, democracies, and elections

Real wages declined 0.3% for low-wage workers in 2025, a stark departure from the unusually strong wage gains they had experienced over the previous five years. This reversal was not inevitable—it was caused by policy decisions that weakened the labor market. #EconSky @epi.org @joe-fast.bsky.social

Seminar on Organisational Misbehaviour Online and in person: ⏰Tue 17th Feb 10am - 1pm Prof Wim Vanderckhove, EDHEC Business School Dr Athol Williams, University of Oxford Dr Guodong Cheng, University of Greenwich Chair: Dr Sterling Rauseo Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/organisati...

🚨 Wide gaps in waiting times for a SEND diagnosis by socio-economic background 🚨 Our research shows how middle-class (ABC1) parents have shorter waiting times for formal SEND diagnoses than working-class (C2DE) parents.

Are you interested in pursuing a funded PhD at the ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work, at the University of Leeds, supervised by Mark Stuart & Charles Umney? You will contribute to a study titled, ‘Building employment inclusion within the West Yorkshire regional digital skills ecosystem.'

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245