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To close the year, all four PhD candidates took part in an interdisciplinary workshop on platform work and the gig economy at Utrecht University. The event brought together PhD candidates and early-career researchers from the humanities, law, and social sciences,… Read More »Early Career Researchers (ECR) Workshop at Utrecht University (04 December 2025)
This time, from our home institute, Karthika, Özlem and Zixin presented their respective research projects at the annual IMR Academy & Doctoral School Research Day, held at the Nijmegen School of Management (NSM). Each of us had the opportunity to… Read More »Institute for Management Research (IMR) Day at Radboud University (21 November 2025)
Our team attended the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), hosted at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada. During the conference, each of us had the opportunity to present our research and engage… Read More »Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Montreal (9-12 July 2025)
Karthika presented her research at the Regulating Decent Work conference in Geneva, bringing together insights developed across earlier stages of the project, where she presented in Session 4.5: Beyond the Algorithm. Her work now shows how interacting forms of algorithmic… Read More »Regulating Decent Work (RDW) 9th Conference, International Labour Organization (2-4 July 2025)
Karthika recently presented her ongoing research at the workshop Tackling the Impersonality of Algorithmic Management at Tilburg University. The event brought together discussions on how workers experience and interpret platform-mediated work. Invited by Tim Christiaens (Assistant Professor at Tilburg University),… Read More »Tackling the Impersonality of Algorithmic Management Workshop, Tilburg University (18 June 2025)
Karthika presented early findings from her research on gig platform algorithmic management and worker experiences at the 3rd EIASM People Analytics and Algorithmic Management (PAAM) Workshop at the University of Twente. The workshop offered a space to test situating this… Read More »EIASM’s People Analytics and Algorithmic Management (PAAM) Workshop, University of Twente (12-13 June 2025)
The second day of the AI and Algorithms at the Workplace workshop at the European University Institute (EUI) shifted focus from individual research projects to broader debates and applications. In the morning, Andrea M. Herrmann (project’s PI) provided a synthesis… Read More »Seminar ‘AI and Algorithms at the Workplace’ at EUI Florence (06 May 2025)
On a rainy afternoon in early May, our team gathered for an academic exchange on the Platform Economy held at the European University Institute (EUI) and jointly organized by the ERC-project www.Work and the EUI’s Digital Public Sphere Working Group.… Read More »Academic Afternoon ‘AI and Algorithms at the Workplace’ at EUI Florence (05 May 2025)
Team member Karthika Nadarajah has published a new blog article titled “Reshaping Responsibility: Platforms, Clients, and the Online Gig Economy” in the latest issue of Futures of Work. Using principles from the German Supply Chain Act/LkSG (to be replaced by… Read More »New Blog Article by Karthika Nadarajah in Futures of Work (14 January 2025)
Last week Andrea M. Herrmann and Arnaud Lelièvre had the privilege to present their latest working paper on the drivers of online gig demand (co-authored with Julia Bartosch) at the RWTH Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) in Aachen,… Read More »Innovation Research Seminar in RWTH Aachen (06 January 2025)