Lulu is a sociologist and her research spans technology, education, work and employment and organisations. She works on the project DomesticAI as a postdoctoral research fellow. In this project she focuses on the transformation of paid and unpaid work in the age of AI and robotics. With her team she designs a cross-national harmonised factorial survey experiment.
Lulu also leads a project funded by the British Academy, which investigates how educational technology (EdTech) transforms education. Specifically, the project studies the role of EdTech firms – who can be seen as the architects behind the technology – in shaping education by considering the socio-political contexts they are embedded in.
During her doctoral studies, she researched on the labour market, skills formation systems and organisation studies with a country comparative focus.
Digital sociology, sociology of education, work and employment
This programme supports research in the sphere of AI & Work.
AI technologies are increasingly being promoted to automate or augment work in the education sector. With the growth of these technologies, this project asks what tasks and skills are being affected by the adoption of AI in the education sector.
This project explores the introduction of AI technologies to unpaid domestic work and the potential benefits and vulnerabilities related to this.
With Dr Lulu P. Shi
Dr Lulu Shi presents her research on the the future of work automation.
22 February 2023
Four in ten hours currently devoted to unpaid housework and care of children and other family members could be automated within the decade, according to research from the University of Oxford and Ochanomizu University.
The Express, 23 February 2023
Adults now spend the equivalent of 43 percent of all their work and study time on domestic chores.
The Independent, 23 February 2023
These not-so-distant household automations could benefit working-age women significantly, experts suggest
The Times, 23 February 2023
Chorebots will cut time wasted on housework ‘by 40% within a decade’
