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Adrian Smith @profadriansmith

Professor, Department of Management @SussexUBusiness; Associate Fellow @digitcentre; editor @eursjournal; Visiting Professor @qmul.

Joined September 2021
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🎉 We are delighted to announce that the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (@ESRC) has awarded Digit £8.3 million for a further five years to study the UK's evolving digital work ecosystem.
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Delighted to see this recently published: ‘AgTech’ and the restructuring of agrifood labour regimes: Digital technologies, migrant labour and the intensification of production in the UK glasshouse sector. Thanks to ⁦@LeverhulmeTrust for funding⁩ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

‘AgTech’ and the restructuring of agrifood labour regimes: Digital technologies, migrant labour and...

This article examines the challenges surrounding the adoption of robotic automation and ‘AgTech’ in glasshouse agrifood production and considers ways in which growers and technology capital are...

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🎉📢 Exciting News from @eursjournal With @TorreAndr, we are thrilled to announce a #CallForPapers an exclusive 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 on October 6-7 at the @EMNormandie For more details, check out the full call on our website! linkedin.com/posts/european-…

#circulareconomy #sustainabledevelopment #urbanplanning #callforpapers #workshop #networking...

Exciting news from European Urban and Regional Studies! André Torre and Sébastien BOURDIN are thrilled to announce a 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for a special issue titled "Integrating the circular...

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Sabina Lawreniuk@SabinaLawreniuk
15 Dec 2023
Edited by Shyamain Wickramasingha @profadriansmith, @SussexUBusiness Prof Neil Coe, @sydneyunigeo & @SabinaLawreniuk, @UoNGeography 📆Send us your abstracts by 15.02.24 👀@rgs_egrg @EGSG_AAG @RadGeography #economicgeography
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Sabina Lawreniuk@SabinaLawreniuk
15 Dec 2023
🚨Call for Papers🚨 🌐⛓️Restructuring and Resilience of Global Production Networks in the Age of Polycrisis⛓️🌐 🔖Special Issue in Journal of Economic Geography, @OUPEconomics x 👩‍🏫Paper Dev Workshop (fully funded!) @SussexUBusiness, June '24 Full CfP: academic.oup.com/joeg/pages/…
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European Urban and Regional Studies@eursjournal
1 Dec 2023
Call for Themed Workshops and Special Issues The Editors of European Urban and Regional Studies invite proposals for research workshops based on academic research that falls under the scope of the journal: journals.sagepub.com/page/eu…

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Siobhan McGrath PhD@DemandRights
4 Aug 2023
The book aims 'to set out a framework that accounts for both "labour control and labour agency" and is explicitly multi-scalar … a framework that is capable of attending to the myriad aspects of a critical political economy of labour.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Paul Nightingale@Nightingale_P
25 Jul 2023
We are looking for a Director and Chaired Professor for the new Bennett Institute for Innovation and Policy Acceleration. Director and Chaired Professor, Bennett Institute for Innovation and Policy Acceleration job with University of Sussex | 33086 (economist.com)

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Agenda Publishing@agendapub
17 Jul 2023
📢Now available in paperback 📢 LABOUR REGIMES AND GLOBAL PRODUCTION Edited by Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe & @profadriansmith Read the introduction👇🏾 agendapub.com//resources/pdf… #LabourRegimes
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Today we publish the first findings from our @ESRC funded survey of Employers' Digital Practices at Work. There's been a lot of speculation about AI but in the face of rapidly evolving technologies, policymakers and businesses need evidence. digit-research.org/publicati… 🧵👇 /1

Employers' Digital Practices at Work: First Findings

A nationally representative survey of UK employers’ adoption and use of new digital technologies, including AI and machine-learning from the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre.

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CLaSP@clasp_qmul
7 Jun 2023
Wrapped up our 2-day workshop on 'Labour Regimes & Ecology' Such inspired, rich presentations & exchanges on the intersections b/w labouring bodies, nature, state, capital, space, time... across agriculture, mining, fishing, renewables & automobiles. (bonus: happy faces)
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Rory Horner@rory_horner
7 Jun 2023
Call for papers for special issue of 'ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography': “Shaping Globalisation: Revisiting the State-Global Production Network Nexus” Edited by Martin Hess (@GeographyUOM) & I: rb.gy/7z1tk Abstracts due 19th June; Full papers 15th December 2023
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Excited to be co-organising and presenting at this research workshop this week: for discussions of research on labour regimes and ecology in the world economy ⁦@clasp_qmul⁩
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CLaSP@clasp_qmul
15 May 2023
Excited to share our year-end event! Labour in the Green Transition, with Ariel Salleh & Matt Huber, Jun 8 @QMUL It asks: What is the role of #labour in the green transition? What can we learn from history? What about race, gender, age...? Register: claspblog.org/events/clasp-e…

CLaSP End of Year Event: Labour in the Green Transition — CLaSP Blog

With the climate crisis firmly upon us, it is clear, now more than ever, that mainstream solutions centred on the market and technology have done little to move us along a sustainable ecological...

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Recent blog charting the development of a research centre … from labour and global production to labour, sustainability and global production. The origins for our co-edited Labour Regimes & Global Production collection claspblog.org/blogposts/from…

From CLGP to CLaSP — CLaSP Blog

In our inaugural post, we recover the history of CLaSP since its foundation in 2016, delineating how the Centre has evolved to pursue distinct threads of work that unpack business and management in...

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My new article examining the development of ‘hydroponic capital’, a key element in the intensification of large-scale, industrialised glasshouse agrifood production. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Hydroponic Capital: Socionatural Innovation and the Intensification of Glasshouse Agrifood Produc...

This article develops the concept of hydroponic capital in order to explain the emergence of socionatural innovations aiming to enhance food security and production efficiencies in glasshouse agrif...

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The argument is that hydroponics resulted in an intensification of the circulation time for capital and a simultaneous rationalisation of the scale and costs of labour in the process of agrifood production.
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Hydroponics was therefore a way for growers to manage some of the key biophysical barriers to production and to enhance control over labour rationalisation. It has since become central to ‘controlled environment agriculture’. @econgeog
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