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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
Work, Welfare, Technology and Power
Work, Welfare, Technology and Power

Debates around work, welfare and tech are really debates about power

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Anna DentApril 28, 2021
Passport to work?
Passport to work?

What risks and benefits could vaccine passports have for workers?

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Anna DentApril 15, 2021
Labouring for automation
Labouring for automation

Automation may wipe out many jobs, but what about the ones it’s creating?

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Anna DentFebruary 9, 2021
On being in the room
On being in the room

The pros and cons of being in the rooms where things happen

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Anna DentNovember 13, 2020
UBI = freedom from welfare surveillance?
UBI = freedom from welfare surveillance?

Could a universal basic income save us from increasing digital surveillance?

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Anna DentOctober 19, 2020
The uncertain future of good work
The uncertain future of good work

The future of good work is even more uncertain due to Covid-19

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Anna DentSeptember 15, 2020
For ethical AI, get a social scientist
For ethical AI, get a social scientist

AI researchers and designers need to work with social scientists if AI is to become more ethical

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Anna DentAugust 28, 2020
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