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Senior Lecturer in Digital Technologies, University of Roehampton
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Co-Director of the ESRC Centre on Digital Futures at Work, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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ESRC Research Fellow, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex