Bianca Mirea

PhD Candidate @LeedsUniBSchool |
Visiting PhD Candidate @sydney_business

Digital Labour Platforms | Careers & Job Quality | Knowledge workers

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Day 2 at the @digitcentre PhD workshop @OsloMet
One of the most popular sessions focused on different theoretical approaches to work and digitalisation, sparking a lively panel discussion where scholars from different fields humorously examined the quirks and limitations of their own disciplines. They shared candid insights on the joys and challenges of interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research, especially when collaborating across academic boundaries. Key takeaway: If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.

We also found valuable the conversation comparing the PhD experience in Norway versus the UK—a topic that spurred reflections on everything from research culture to academic expectations. Thank you to Profs Claartje ter Hoeven, Ines Wagner, @RogerSoraa, Janis Umblijs and organisers Digit Norway & @digitcentre.

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

The morning session got us thinking! Prof @RogerSoraa challenged us with insights on AI’s role in hiring from the @BIASProjectEU, sparking questions about bias and fairness and revealing just how often we don’t know why AI makes certain decisions.
Then, Prof Ines Wagner took us further, exploring who truly benefits from the introduction of industrial robots on the shop floor — with a surprising gendered lens.

On another note, we were surprised by the invitation to dinner for 4.30 pm which we thought must be a typo in the workshop agenda. Turns out, when in Oslo, you adjust your watch (and your appetite) to local time!

Digit Norway & @digitcentre

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Day 1 at the PhD Workshop on Digitalisation & the World of Work in Oslo!

The day began with a keynote on digital microworking by Prof. Claartje ter Hoeven, followed by a powerful documentary sharing the voices of microworkers themselves. It was such an engaging way to connect research with real-world experiences – we were all drawn in, no matter our research focus.
Thank you Digit Norway & @digitcentre

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Quite a diverse crowd of ECRs from all over the world gathered here @UL. This was made possible by @SASE_Meeting in collaboration with @digitcentre , which brought us together to present our work and act as discussants for each other’s papers.
All of us who were selected for the workshop were offered funding to travel here (incl accommodation) and attend the workshop & conference. I hope other ECRs (and final year PhD candidates) take note of this learning opportunity and consider applying next year. It won’t disappoint.
Thanks to @SASE_Meeting, @digitcentre and all volunteers who made this possible.

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Arrived in Limerick for the @SASE_Meeting. I'm quite impressed with the on-campus student villages at the @UL (so much green!) and the fact that all participants in the ECR workshop read my paper in advance, despite us coming from different disciplines. It was quite intense.

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

📢Calling all doctoral candidates with an interest in the future of work & employment relations

The call for papers for the annual @CERIC_LUBS Doctoral Conference is now open! The event is free and open to all PhD students from any university, with the option to present in person or online (parallel sessions). My colleagues Riya, Danyi and Gogo are really looking forward to reading your abstracts 😊 and welcoming you on the day at @LeedsUniBSchool. Oh and there are prizes to be won!

Areas of interest: work and globalisation; inequalities, diversity and inclusion, employment relations & HRM (Deadline 22 April)

Contact: [email protected] (submissions and queries)
Call for papers: https://t.co/vrbl4HPVEa

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Such a pleasure listening to @EmilyYarrow1 speak – this time sharing how precarity shaped her ECR years, the experience of redundancy, learning how to say no. Thanks for speaking so frankly, we need more of this. Thanks also @NARTINetwork & CYGNA @Martyna_Sliwa for organising

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

At last week’s @CERIC_LUBS seminar we were treated to a provocative discussion on unsettling West-centrism in the study of professional service firms (Prof Boussebaa). Double treat, actually - I had forgotten how beautiful autumn can be on our campus @LeedsUniBSchool

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

@ScholzFrederike Congratulations, Frederike! I’m always happy to hear about your progress particularly since I’ve read your GWO paper (co-authored with Joanna) where you shared your struggles and vulnerabilities as ECRs. Wishing you new beginnings filled with fulfillment and peace of mind.

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Celebrating our newly minted @CERIC_LUBS PhDs Dr
@LilithBrouwers and Dr @xjackdaly on a rare sunny day in Leeds.

@LeedsUniBSchool

[KU Leuven Employment relations and labour markets @KULeuven_ERLM]

📢❗️📖New publication alert! What makes #unpaid labour vary across #digital #labour #platforms is a matter of socio-technical work #regimes, argue Pulignano et al. (@valeriapuligna2) in a new paper on Human Relations @HR_TIHR
#ResPecTMe @ERC_Research
👉https://t.co/LQGRhZ6WC7

[Xanthe Whittaker @XantheWhittaker]

New paper with Simon Joyce, Charles Umney and @CERIC_LUBS in @NTWEjournal reflecting on how we go beyond technological determinism in research on work and employment.
https://t.co/pKkYbaOKJ8

[Christoph Lutz @lutzid]

In beautiful Prato at the #Disrupting #Technology conference: https://t.co/GasTaaGRtl What a lovely venue 🤩 Will present #research by @NewlandsGemma and me later today on #prestige and perceived social #value of #digital #economy occupations

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

@lutzid @NewlandsGemma Sounds like a promising paper! Unfortunately, I couldn't make the Prato conference but hope to learn more about your research in future events. Enjoy the conference and lovely Prato!

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Heading back to Leeds, hopefully summer is not already over :)

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Summer has finally settled in Berlin after the end of our Summer School on digitalization @WZB_Berlin (in partnership with @digitcentre & @CERIC_LUBS). Thanks to the organisers and attendees for the great hospitality and feedback on my paper on job quality in platform work.

[Bianca Mirea @mirea_bianca]

Still hungry after lunch but at least great conversations & food for thought during lunch time in a really nice avenue

#cericphd2023