iManage Team Project, led by Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Six Silberman, Highly Commended in Social Sciences Impact Awards 2025

The Faculty is delighted to share that the iManage team project Regulating AI at work: protecting workers against digital surveillance and control, led by Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Professor of Law, and Six Silberman, Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has been Highly Commended in the Social Sciences Impact Awards. Many congratulations to Jeremias, Six, and the iManage team on this recognition!  

The growth of algorithmic management (ARM, whereby monitoring technology and sophisticated algorithms are used for managerial decision-making - such as hiring and firing workers) poses a serious threat to the legal regulation of labour markets. The collaboration of the iManage team – the Faculty’s Professor Adams-Prassl and Dr Silberman, with Aislinn Kelly-Lyth, Halefom H. Abraha, Sangh Rakshita and Bharat Shivan - has led to the development of the first comprehensive policy framework responding to this threat. Not only has their interdisciplinary work helped to raise ARM as a priority for policy makers in the UK, Europe and internationally, but several provisions within their 'Blueprint for Regulating ARM' have been adopted in the EU's 2024 Platform Work Directive, granting new rights to a staggering 43 million gig economy workers. 
 
The 2025 Social Sciences Impact Awards celebrate social science colleagues of all career stages across the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University who are making significant contributions to society or the economy through meaningful collaboration with non-academic partners.