Funda Ustek-Spilda

Senior Researcher

Funda Ustek Spilda is a Senior Researcher at Fairwork. She is involved in multiple research projects at Fairwork, and regularly writes on issues of labour conditions in the platform economy, from various angles such as ethics, fairness and justice.

She holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford in Sociology (2015) and an MSc from the same university in Comparative Social Policy (2010). In her doctoral thesis, she studied the survival strategies of women workers in Turkey as they navigated various jobs in the informal labour market.

Before joining Fairwork, Funda held postdoctoral researcher positions at ARITHMUS: How data make a people (ERC Research Project, 2014-2018) based at Goldsmiths, University of London; and VIRT-EU: Values and Ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in Europe (EC FP7 Horizon 2020 Project) based at the London School of Economics.