Call for Participants: Challenging Tech

Deadline: Wednesday 31 March 2021

Submissions are now open for the day symposium ‘Challenging Tech,’ hosted by Cardiff University’s Data Justice Lab and Prospect Union. We would welcome submissions for research papers, workshops, reports, or reflections from practice on any of the following subjects:

  • Unions and technology: challenges and opportunities
  • Digital organising strategies
  • Current campaigns around technology and digitisation
  • The digitised workplace
  • Worker data and autonomy
  • Worker solidarity in a digital age
  • Workplace challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Conceptualising the post-COVID workplace

We would especially welcome submissions from under-represented groups in the sector, especially women, members of the LGBTQI+ community, people of colour,  migrant workers and neurodiverse people. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 31st March. You will receive notification by Friday 9th April. Please send submissions to: HopkinsC11@cardiff.ac.uk

Challenging Tech in Pictures

We also welcome creative submissions for our gallery, including photography, digital art works, design, or posters on the theme of ‘Digital Solidarity’.’ Please send your submissions to HopkinsC11@cardiff.ac.uk. If you are including a written monograph to introduce your work, please limit it to 400 words. Submissions will then be compiled into a digital booklet which will be distributed to all attendees.