What can social science tell us about the future of work?
The rise in automation and our digital economy are changing the way we work. In recent years, there’s been a rising sense of anxiety around how new technologies will impact our working lives: Will robots steal our jobs? Will we need to learn new skills to be employable? In this changing landscape, social science has a critical role to play in understanding the impact of this digital takeover and examine where we go next.
What skills will the future social scientist need?
Watch our panel event from the ESRC Festival of Social Science on what skills social scientists will need to be able to do the social research of the future.
Training social scientists for the future
Calling all social scientists. How were you trained? How are you keeping up (or not) with new developments in this rapidly changing digital world? How are you training your students?
This was the subject of an event sponsored by SAGE Ocean as part of the ESRC’s 2018 Festival of Social Science. In case you are not aware, Sage, who have been at the forefront of publishing qualitative work, have now launched SAGE Ocean – an initiative “to help social scientists to navigate vast datasets and work with new technologies”.
Putting big data to good use
"Big data and mathematical models aren’t inherently bad... it depends on the way it’s used, by whom, and in service of what outcomes." says Katie Metzler. Against backdrop of media stories warning us about big data and its dangers, SAGE Publishing hosted a panel debate as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science panel entitled “Putting big data to good use” at the British Academy in London where Katie Metzler leads the discussion.