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What is relational technology?
What is relational technology?

What is relational technology? It’s about human needs and human relationships.

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Anna DentApril 14, 2025
Reform in reverse
Reform in reverse

Labour has gone into reverse on welfare reform. Some grumpy thoughts.

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Anna DentMarch 14, 2025
DWP AI: what do we know?
DWP AI: what do we know?

What do we know about DWP’s use of AI? Results from my freedom of information requests

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Anna DentFebruary 3, 2025
Replicating the digital welfare state
Replicating the digital welfare state

How and why is the digital welfare state being replicated globally?

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Anna DentJanuary 8, 2025
A year in review and a look ahead
A year in review and a look ahead

A brief look back at 2024 and into 2025

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Anna DentDecember 27, 2024
Relational digital futures
Relational digital futures

What principles should underpin government's approach to digital public services?

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Anna DentOctober 8, 2024
If we don't sort digital inclusion, forget about AI
If we don't sort digital inclusion, forget about AI

Digital exclusion needs systemic solutions before any benefits from AI are fully realisable

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Anna DentSeptember 24, 2024
Digital social security futures: disciplinary or relational?
Digital social security futures: disciplinary or relational?

Is the future of the digital welfare state focused on control and discipline or human relationships?

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Anna DentSeptember 10, 2024
Basic income as policy solution
Basic income as policy solution

Two presentations exploring basic income as a solution to digital surveillance and flaws in Universal Credit

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Anna DentSeptember 3, 2024
The future(s) of DWP
The future(s) of DWP

What’s on the cards for the future of DWP under the new Labour government, and are they being ambitious enough?

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Anna DentAugust 14, 2024
Automated welfare embraces generative AI
Automated welfare embraces generative AI

Benefits administration is the latest public service to embrace generative AI, but at what cost?

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Anna DentApril 12, 2024
Digital economic justice and worker-driven futures
Digital economic justice and worker-driven futures

Digitally-mediated work is a new space for old inequities

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Anna DentNovember 21, 2022
Automation: labour replacement or displacement?
Automation: labour replacement or displacement?

Does automation replace jobs or displace the labour elsewhere?

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Anna DentSeptember 7, 2022
We don't talk about benefits, no, no*
We don't talk about benefits, no, no*

The DWP are gaining new powers of surveillance, while suppressing research

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Anna DentAugust 19, 2022
UBI for Care Leavers: a discussion with Patricia Lucas
UBI for Care Leavers: a discussion with Patricia Lucas

I discuss the Welsh basic income for care leavers with Patricia Lucas

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Anna DentFebruary 22, 2022
The inevitability of UBI?
The inevitability of UBI?

Will technological change make UBI inevitable?

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Anna DentOctober 20, 2021
Has work changed forever: how to retrain
Has work changed forever: how to retrain

What helps people to retrain, and does our benefits system support them?

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Anna DentJune 24, 2021
Has work changed forever: low paid workers
Has work changed forever: low paid workers

Has public support translated into meaningful change for the low paid?

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Anna DentJune 18, 2021
Has work changed forever: accelerating trends
Has work changed forever: accelerating trends

Trends in employment practices and automation have speeded up through the pandemic

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Anna DentJune 11, 2021
Has work changed forever?
Has work changed forever?

The pandemic has changed how we work, but how much and for how long?

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Anna DentJune 4, 2021
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