Xanthe Whittaker
@xanthewhittaker.bsky.social
Lecturer in Work & Employment Relations | Future of work | AI & data tech at work | Inequalities at work | Care work | Dancer | Skater 🛼
London/Leeds
London/Leeds
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Opinion: Limiting industrial action to defensive branch battles on redundancy is not enough. We need to politically challenge the HE funding model in the UK: my piece for the @timeshighered.bsky.social
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Only a nationwide strike can stem the carnage in UK higher education
Limiting industrial action to defensive branch battles on redundancy is not enough. We need to politically challenge the HE funding model, says Rhiannon Lockley
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February 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Opinion: Limiting industrial action to defensive branch battles on redundancy is not enough. We need to politically challenge the HE funding model in the UK: my piece for the @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/only...
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🌟 Disrupting Technology Conference 2025, 16 & 17 June, Leeds
📣 Fantastic keynote speakers:
🔹 Prof Mark Graham, Fairwork & Oxford Internet Institute
🔹 Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO
‼️ Abstract deadline 7 March
➡️ Join us! Check out the call for papers: business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...
📣 Fantastic keynote speakers:
🔹 Prof Mark Graham, Fairwork & Oxford Internet Institute
🔹 Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO
‼️ Abstract deadline 7 March
➡️ Join us! Check out the call for papers: business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...
February 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🌟 Disrupting Technology Conference 2025, 16 & 17 June, Leeds
📣 Fantastic keynote speakers:
🔹 Prof Mark Graham, Fairwork & Oxford Internet Institute
🔹 Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO
‼️ Abstract deadline 7 March
➡️ Join us! Check out the call for papers: business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...
📣 Fantastic keynote speakers:
🔹 Prof Mark Graham, Fairwork & Oxford Internet Institute
🔹 Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO
‼️ Abstract deadline 7 March
➡️ Join us! Check out the call for papers: business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
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February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
The awful and tragic loss of Michael Burawoy has caused me to pause and reflect on the many ways his work has influenced my development as an early career scholar in sociology of work -.
The International Sociological Association (ISA) deeply mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy, a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and the 17th President of ISA. Michael was fatally struck in a hit-and-run accident on February 3rd. His loss is immeasurable.
February 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The awful and tragic loss of Michael Burawoy has caused me to pause and reflect on the many ways his work has influenced my development as an early career scholar in sociology of work -.
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📣 Call for papers!
✨DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
📅 Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025
📍 University of Leeds, UK
‼️ Abstract submission deadline: 7th March 2025
📧 Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email to: ceric@leeds.ac.uk
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✨DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
📅 Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025
📍 University of Leeds, UK
‼️ Abstract submission deadline: 7th March 2025
📧 Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email to: ceric@leeds.ac.uk
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Esme Terry on LinkedIn: CfP: Disrupting Technology Conference 2025, Leeds
📣🌟 Call for Papers! Disrupting Technology Conference 2025 🌟 📣
📅 When? Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025
📍 Where? University of Leeds, UK
‼️…
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January 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📣 Call for papers!
✨DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
📅 Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025
📍 University of Leeds, UK
‼️ Abstract submission deadline: 7th March 2025
📧 Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email to: ceric@leeds.ac.uk
www.linkedin.com/posts/esme-t...
✨DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
📅 Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025
📍 University of Leeds, UK
‼️ Abstract submission deadline: 7th March 2025
📧 Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email to: ceric@leeds.ac.uk
www.linkedin.com/posts/esme-t...
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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
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Tomorrow is the final CERIC Seminar of the semester! Akram Al Ariss will be joining us online at 1pm to discuss Employment of International Migrants: What we know and what we still need to know. Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/akram-al-a...
Akram Al Ariss: Employment of International Migrants
What we know and what we still need to know. Part of the CERIC Seminar series.
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December 2, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Tomorrow is the final CERIC Seminar of the semester! Akram Al Ariss will be joining us online at 1pm to discuss Employment of International Migrants: What we know and what we still need to know. Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/akram-al-a...
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New limited series starts tomorrow.
BHOPAL: stories of an Ecocide.
Where @lucyburke Explores the history and impacts of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Listen to the trailer below.
Only on GND Media, where ever you get your podcasts.
BHOPAL: stories of an Ecocide.
Where @lucyburke Explores the history and impacts of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Listen to the trailer below.
Only on GND Media, where ever you get your podcasts.
December 1, 2024 at 10:27 AM
New limited series starts tomorrow.
BHOPAL: stories of an Ecocide.
Where @lucyburke Explores the history and impacts of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Listen to the trailer below.
Only on GND Media, where ever you get your podcasts.
BHOPAL: stories of an Ecocide.
Where @lucyburke Explores the history and impacts of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Listen to the trailer below.
Only on GND Media, where ever you get your podcasts.
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Absolutely grim list, which now includes roughly half of UK universities.
One of the most important takeaways from all of this should be that a lot of these cuts are pre-emptive, and/or in response to shortfalls rather than responses to actual deficits.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
One of the most important takeaways from all of this should be that a lot of these cuts are pre-emptive, and/or in response to shortfalls rather than responses to actual deficits.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 28, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Absolutely grim list, which now includes roughly half of UK universities.
One of the most important takeaways from all of this should be that a lot of these cuts are pre-emptive, and/or in response to shortfalls rather than responses to actual deficits.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
One of the most important takeaways from all of this should be that a lot of these cuts are pre-emptive, and/or in response to shortfalls rather than responses to actual deficits.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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Digit has secured a further 5 years of funding from the ESRC totalling £8.3million - congratulations to the co-leads here at CERIC and University of Sussex, and all the partners on this brilliant project!
digit-research.org/news_article...
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Digit wins new five-year ESRC grant to examine the UK’s digital work ecosystem • Digit
The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded Digit £8.3million for a further five years to study the UK's evolving digital work ecosystem.
The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Wo...
digit-research.org
November 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Digit has secured a further 5 years of funding from the ESRC totalling £8.3million - congratulations to the co-leads here at CERIC and University of Sussex, and all the partners on this brilliant project!
digit-research.org/news_article...
digit-research.org/news_article...
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Hello Bluesky! We're the Center for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change at @universityofleeds.bsky.social Business School, focused on research around the changing dynamics and future of work, employment and labour markets. Follow for research updates, events and news!
November 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Hello Bluesky! We're the Center for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change at @universityofleeds.bsky.social Business School, focused on research around the changing dynamics and future of work, employment and labour markets. Follow for research updates, events and news!
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📢 Join us for the next HuLog Circle Talk on Wednesday, November 27, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM (CET) [online]!
✨ Topic: Labour Control and Worker Resistance at Amazon
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Peter Birke, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/fmhkZ
@ceric-lubs.bsky.social
✨ Topic: Labour Control and Worker Resistance at Amazon
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Peter Birke, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/fmhkZ
@ceric-lubs.bsky.social
Registration for HuLog Circle - Wednesday, November 27, 2-4 pm (CET) online
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November 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM
📢 Join us for the next HuLog Circle Talk on Wednesday, November 27, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM (CET) [online]!
✨ Topic: Labour Control and Worker Resistance at Amazon
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Peter Birke, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/fmhkZ
@ceric-lubs.bsky.social
✨ Topic: Labour Control and Worker Resistance at Amazon
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Peter Birke, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/fmhkZ
@ceric-lubs.bsky.social
Welcome @ceric-lubs.bsky.social - Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds
Follow for the latest on our research!
Follow for the latest on our research!
November 19, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Welcome @ceric-lubs.bsky.social - Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds
Follow for the latest on our research!
Follow for the latest on our research!