I am a human rights researcher, trade unionist, and educator.
My research and trade union work focuses on human and worker rights under digitalisation. It addresses especially the rights of workers on digital labour platforms and under algorithmic management. It also engages broader questions of worker and labour rights in the context of information technologies, including ‘artificial intelligence.’
In the course of this work I have contributed to the development of technologies, institutions, and legal instruments to establish and protect the rights of digital platform workers, including Turkopticon (2008-2020), the Ombuds Office of the Crowdsourcing Code of Conduct (2017-2020), the EU Platform Work Directive (adopted 2024), and the ILO Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy (adopted 2026).
I have also published research on information technology and sustainability and ecological economics.
My teaching explores the relationships between institutions, individuals, and technologies. It is motivated by practical questions such as how we can develop healthy relationships to work; do valuable, meaningful, psychologically sustainable work; and develop and sustain healthy organisations and communities. I draw on diverse conceptual frameworks and traditions in the social and psychological sciences, including self-determination theory, the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, and liberation psychology.
I am also a tarot practitioner working in the human rights tradition.