By Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work.
This project seeks to apply the principles of AI for Fair Work, by using these as a benchmark for empirical on workers’ experiences of the implementation of AI systems in the workplace.
This project seeks to review the Indian government’s policies relating to AI and Work, to improve understanding of how they are/can be (re)configured to account for and address the informality that characterises Indian urban labour markets.
This project seeks to understand the gendered experiences of UK gig workers, to explore common safety risks associated with e-hailing and delivery work, along with examining risk-mitigation tactics employed by workers in response to platform design.
Cedefop’s CrowdLearn study is the first to examine skills development and skill matching practices in online platform work. It presents evidence from interviews with platform economy stakeholders, as well as crowdworkers themselves.
27 October 2023
The OII is leading the debate on Artificial Intelligence. Generative AI has been a key area of interest for faculty, researchers and students for many years. This article brings together some of this work to date and highlights forthcoming work.
24 October 2023
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and the Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen, find that the economic value of a skill is determined by how well it can be combined with other worker competencies.
23 October 2023
Should we all learn how to code to prepare for an uncertain future of work? In our recent article, we show that it pays to have skills centred around Artificial Intelligence (AI).
17 October 2023
New research shows start-up founders have distinct personality traits which are more important to the success of their companies than previously thought.
The Times, 01 December 2023
Researchers who take part in long-distance collaborations enabled by the internet make fewer breakthroughs than those who meet in person, according to a study which may help explain an apparent slump in scientific productivity.
Times Higher Education, 30 November 2023
Analysis of growing distance between researchers looks at puzzle of why digital connections have not led to upsurge in innovation.
The Telegraph, 30 November 2023
Remote working is making it harder for scientists to get “Eureka!” moments, an Oxford study has found.
