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Jamie Woodcock

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Jamie Woodcock is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labour, the gig economy, and resistance.

He is the author of Working The Phones, a study of a call centre in the UK inspired by the workers’ inquiry. His current research involves developing this method in co-research projects with Deliveroo drivers and other digital workers in the gig economy. He is on the editorial board of Historical Materialism.

He has previously worked as a postdoc on a research project about videogames, as well as another on the crowdsourcing of citizen science. Jamie completed his PhD in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Queen Mary, NYU London, Cass Business School, and LSE.