• Jan 05, 2024
• David James

Wrong-headed Western perceptions meet Asian realities

“Vietnam? Isn’t that where they grow rice and make all those rucksacks and bags for Western brands?” This is what a neighbour (let�

• Sep 04, 2023
• Phillip Brown

Tales of the Unexpected: reflections on the Digital Futures of Work Research Programme

When we began our studies in August 2019 there was a lot of media hype about robots taking jobs following studies claiming almost half of American wor

• May 16, 2023
• Millie Lee

From K-pop and K-drama to ‘K-learning cities’: lessons for the digital era

In recent years, South Korea has been gaining more and more attention in the global market in many areas: for example, K-pop, K-drama and K-food. This

• May 10, 2023
• Ewart Keep

Digitalisation’s impacts on occupations and skills – the challenge for English qualifications

Across the developed and developing world the adoption of digital technologies is having an impact on the structure of occupations and careers, and co

• Mar 21, 2023
• Ewart Keep

Digitalisation and English policy capacity

One of the key lessons to emerge from comparative research on national policy responses to digitalisation, automation and AI is that nations start in

• Mar 13, 2023
• Phillip Brown

Will generative AI lead to a degenerative workforce?

In the final year of our research programme, we’ve witnessed what’s widely believed to be a step-change in digital innovation, resulting from adva

• Dec 01, 2022
• Sahara Sadik

The ‘future worker’: the missing piece in the socio-technical imagery of the ‘future of work’

Perhaps, we have put too much attention on the ‘future of work’ that we lose sight of the ‘future worker’. I was reminded of this in a disc

• Dec 01, 2022
• Phillip Brown

If skills are the answer, we could be asking the wrong question

At the Global Lifelong Learning Summit in Singapore¹, I

• Nov 18, 2022
• Manuel Souto-Otero

What does the digital labour market mean for the competition for jobs?

Digital innovation is rapidly transforming how labour markets shape the competition for jobs. We now spend more time online and create more digital da

• Nov 14, 2022
• Hanne Shapiro

From paper and pulp to a digital front runner – Finland

Internationally, Finland is often referred to as a model country when it comes to digital transformation. In the EU Digital Economy and Society Index

• Jul 29, 2022
• Hellen Bound

Work Integrated Learning for future-oriented capabilities

There has been a shift in Singapore’s educational institutions towards an emphasis on industry placements as part of the preparation of learners for

• Jul 15, 2022
• Ewart Keep

Why the UK government is failing to address digital skill needs

What is the UK government doing to identify and address future digital skill needs? What follows explores what is being done and points to some of the

• Jun 30, 2022
• Caroline Lloyd

Digital skills in lower skilled jobs

Workers in lower-skilled jobs are often seen as particularly vulnerable to automation as well as more likely to struggle with new digital skill requir

• Jun 16, 2022
• Chia Ying

Skills-based hiring: More equal opportunities for all?

To what extent does skills-based hiring hold onto the promise of creating more equal opportunities for all in the labour market? And, if indeed so, do

• May 23, 2022
• Johnny Sung

The current state of play and future possibilities of using A.I. for labour market analysis

The advance in digital information and the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) have improved the quantity and quality of new labour market informati

• Apr 08, 2022
• David James

Lifelong learning and the fourth industrial revolution

It is still widely accepted that today’s technological advances require a strategic approach to lifelong learning, b

• Apr 01, 2022
• Manuel Souto-Otero & Johnny Sung

New methods to understand the labour market in the digital economy

As part of the Digital Futures of Work Programme, we brought together over 30 experts f

• Mar 23, 2022
• Ewart Keep

The curious absence of a coherent digital skills policy in the UK

The impacts of digitalisation on skills are, at best, muted in current UK policy debates. Given the importance of digi

• Mar 16, 2022
• Damien Yee

The future of no work?

At the very beginning of my journey, I was crowing with the flock that “disruption is here”. Your job is not safe. AI and automation will take awa

• Mar 11, 2022
• Manuel Souto-Otero & Phillip Brown

The emergence of the digital labour market and its perils

Rapid digital innovation is transforming how people look for jobs and how companies recruit. As a result, the competit

• Jan 20, 2022
• Hanne Shapiro

Living, learning and working in the digital archipelago

Work-life quality is serious business in Finland, they have taken it to whole new levels!

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• Oct 18, 2021
• Sahara Sadik

The future of work is distributed: the challenge of our time

The owner of a small business has difficulty hiring executives to support his firm’s pivot to digital. This is in Si

• Feb 04, 2021
• Manuel Souto-Otero

Looking for a Shelter Against Automation? Your Boss Might be Part of the Answer

There is a lot of discussion about robots taking our jobs. Much of it is speculative, us

• Feb 03, 2021
• Phillip Brown

There’s a lot at Stake in the Future of Work: A Reminder that Technology is Not Destiny

All industrial revolutions are characterised by changes in the nature of work. This is not just a change in the types