Srujana’s doctoral research focusses on the lived experiences of work and labour organising in the Indian platform economy. As part of her doctoral project, she is conducting a collaborative ethnography in partnership with the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union, in the South Indian city of Hyderabad. Her DPhil is generously funded by the OII Shirley Tuition Scholarship, the OII-DSF doctoral award, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Engaged Research Grant.
Alongside her DPhil, Srujana also works as a researcher at the Fairwork Project. She also holds an MSc Social Science of the Internet and an MPhil Development Studies from the University of Oxford.
This programme supports research in the sphere of AI & Work.
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 research project investigates the working lives and aspirations of ride-hail workers in Hyderabad, in order to understand what worker-defined futures of ride-hail work might look like.
With Srujana Katta and Dr Chris King Chi Chan
The OII is delighted to present Professor Chris Chan and his latest research on the platform labour markets in Hong Kong. This event is hybrid and we encourage people to attend in person.
With Dr Funda Ustek Spilda and Srujana Katta
In this webinar, Funda Ustek-Spilda and Srujana Katta will talk about the Fairwork Project, an action-research project at the Oxford Internet Institute.
By Kelle Howson, Hannah Johnston, Nancy Salem, Robbie Warin, Fabian Ferrari, Yihan Zhu, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Daniel Arubayi, Srujana Katta, Shelly Steward, Matthew Cole, Adam Badger, and Mark Graham
What sort of working standards do gig economy remote workers face? This Fairwork report scores 17 platforms on the conditions they offer, and highlights the failure to offer basic standards of fairness across much of the cloudwork industry.
25 May 2021
Eleven of the UK’s most popular digital labour platforms have been rated according to how fairly they treat workers. In the first study of its kind in the UK, Oxford researchers score companies on standards such as pay, conditions and management.
17 March 2021
10 November 2020
28 October 2020
