The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work.

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🤖 Tired of seeing AI visualised as neon brains and creepy cyborgs? Us too. Alongside @aip_media and Jagged Edge AI, we've proposed a #SXSWEDU 2026 talk to rethink how AI is visualised. 🗳️ Talks are partly chosen by public vote: participate.sxsw.com/flow/sx… #AI #AIRepresentation
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ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) retweeted
Winners have been announced for @digitcentre’s competition ran with @ImagesofAI seeking better images of the ‘digital transformation at work’. Congratulations to the winner, Yutong Liu’s ‘Digital Nomads: Across Time’. Find out more: ow.ly/T5uy50Wt4Px"
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The authors write about how experience, often associated with older workers, is crucial to effectively using and critically evaluating Generative AI in the workplace, challenging the popular belief that younger, ‘born digital’ workers are best placed to lead its adoption.
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✍️ NEW BLOG! ‘Why Generative AI is (some) middle-agers’ best friend’ by Ödül Bozkurt, Dimitrinka Stoyanova Russell, and Christopher Russell. digit-research.org/blog/why-…
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You might notice that Digit looks a bit different. We've updated our website to help make it easier to find the research and insights you are looking for.
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As part of the updated website, our branding now reflects our (subtle) name change to become the ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work. You can still find us and all our research at the same website address: digit-research.org.
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A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the inaugural Margaret Boden Annual Lecture in Interdisciplinary AI earlier this week, held at @SussexUBusiness with a Q&A chaired by our Co-Director @jackieo99.
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We were delighted to welcome Peter Danenberg, Senior Software Engineer at @GoogleDeepMind, who delivered a thought-provoking talk on ‘Thinking Creatively and Critically in the Age of LLMs’.
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The event was co-organised by Digit, the University of Sussex Business School, and @SussexAI.
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📣 Call for papers: Second international symposium on ‘Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Work and Employment’ 🔗 Find out more and download the call for papers: digit-research.org/news_arti…
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The organising committee of the symposium is made up of Professor Fang Lee Cooke; Professor @jackieo99; Professor Rune Halvorsen; Dr @steve_rolf; Dr Wei Wei; and Professor Timothy Bartram.
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With digital at the heart of government public service reform, our Co-Director @jackieo99 will be speaking at the Think Digital Government conference (@thinkdigicon) on 20 May. thinkdigitalpartner.zohoback…
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She will highlight lessons from her research examining the digital transformation of countries across Europe. Find out more about the research and the lessons for the UK: digit-research.org/publicati…
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‘Digital Dialogues: Shaping the digital transformation of work’, a report which presents findings from Digital's initial five-year programme of research (2020 to 2024), will also serve as a source of discussion: digital-dialogues.co.uk/
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