Digit, a leading international centre of excellence jointly led by the University of Sussex and the University of Leeds, has been awarded a further £8.3million by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to study the UK’s evolving digital work ecosystem.
As new digital technologies and AI are more widely adopted, the ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) will study the economic and social impacts on people’s working lives. The Centre will begin its new programme of research from January 2025, concluding in December 2029.
Digit has been funded by the ESRC since 2020. The Centre will continue to be jointly led by the University of Sussex and the University of Leeds, with partners at the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, and Monash University in Australia, together with the Institute for the Future of Work, FutureDotNow, and the Institute of Development Studies.
Digit will provide new insights into the vital partnerships between government, businesses, trade unions, and civil society communities necessary to ensure that productivity gains are widely shared, and that technology is effectively regulated in the emerging digital work ecosystem. The Centre will generate new evidence about how to support healthy working lives, improve digital skills, literacy and pay, and examine the consequences of digitalisation for job location and the environment.
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