IER News & blogs
IER researchers present GIG-OSH findings at Creating Sustainable Work Conference 2025
IER researchers presented their papers at the 2025, held in Stockholm, Sweden from 7-9 May 2025, including findings from a project focusing on the occupational health and safety of gig workers (GIG OSHLink opens in a new window). The conference brought together experts and stakeholders to explore sustainable work practices and their implications for worker wellbeing and policy development.
IER at the Fairness at Work Conference
Researchers from IER participated in the 6th at the University of Manchester's Work and Equalities Institute, presenting two papers co-authored with colleagues from IER and the GIG OSH project.
With or without algorithms: managing the self-employed in the Danish platform economy
Digital labour platforms, including their management practices and extensive reliance on the self-employed, have attracted much attention, though usually from a worker rather than an employer perspective. This contributes to the platform literature by exploring how platforms utilise algorithmic and traditional management practices, and for which purposes. It features in the new
New publication on digital platform work in developing countries
IER's Dr Jamelia Harris has published a new article titled in the journal Development.
Platformisation of work
In collaboration with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Dr Sally Wright co-authored a report on platformisation of work in Europe.
The provides a first approximation to the emerging phenomenon of , with an empirical analysis of data from the new JRC Algorithmic Management and Platform Work survey (AMPWork) in Spain and Germany.