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SUMMARY:MIOIR Seminar Series - Balancing bytes and beakers: Skill change 
 in the digitalisation of industrial science
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research S
 eminar Series 23/24 with Dr Barbara Ribeiro\, Associate Professor at SKE
 MA Business School (Paris) and an Honorary Lecturer at The University of
  Manchester.\n\nRegister via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
 mioir-seminar-series-dr-barbara-ribeiro-tickets-740783361977\n\nBalancin
 g bytes and beakers: Skill change in the digitalisation of industrial sc
 ience\n\nAuthors – Barbara Ribeiro\, Andrew James and Abderrahim Nekkach
 e.\n\nThis paper investigates skill change in industrial science in the 
 context of digitalisation. We draw on a study conducted in a large UK fi
 rm to shed light on the transformations in the ‘texture of work’ of know
 ledge workers\, exploring processes of deskilling and upskilling. While 
 management scholars have increasingly focused on how professionals respo
 nd to emerging digital technologies (Faulconbridge et al. 2023)\, the pr
 ocesses of skill change remain less understood. In particular\, we know 
 little about how deskilling and upskilling intersect with divisions of l
 abour\, changes in task complexity\, workers’ autonomy and organisationa
 l uncertainty. We engage with labour process theory (LPT)\, which is “br
 oadly concerned with the transformation of labour power into profitable 
 labour in the context of capitalist relations of production” (McDonald e
 t al. 2020:875) to explore these elements of skill change. While LPT has
  long been a useful lens in examining labour in the context of technolog
 ical change\, it has faced criticism for being technologically determini
 stic. Consequently\, recent scholarship aims to leverage LPT while renew
 ing its explanatory mechanisms to accommodate more relational and constr
 uctivist analyses of the impact of technological change on labour (MacKe
 nzie et al. 2015). Although recent labour process scholarship shows a gr
 owing interest in understanding the impacts of digitalisation\, the focu
 s has primarily been on digital platforms and gig economy workers (e.g. 
 Gandini\, 2019\; Terry et al. 2022)\, sidelining the practices of specia
 lised knowledge workers\, such as scientists. This paper thus addresses 
 an important lacuna\, while it advances the deskilling-upskilling debate
  in management\, organisational\, and innovation studies.\n\nSpeaker's B
 io:\n\nBarbara Ribeiro is an Associate Professor at SKEMA Business Schoo
 l (Paris) and an Honorary Lecturer at The University of Manchester. She 
 obtained her PhD in Science and Technology Studies in 2014 with a thesis
  on the social impacts of biofuels. Before joining SKEMA\, she worked fo
 r a decade in the UK\, first at the Centre for Applied Bioethics at the 
 University of Nottingham (2013-2016) and then at the Manchester Institut
 e of Innovation Research\, AMBS\, The University of Manchester (2016-202
 2). Barbara’s research focuses on the sociological aspects of science\, 
 technology and innovation\, including the practice of responsible innova
 tion. Her work has covered fields such as biotechnology\, synthetic biol
 ogy and\, more recently\, digital technologies and artificial intelligen
 ce. She also has an interest in the intersection between technology and 
 politics and has investigated the cases of public health emergencies rel
 ated to Zika and Covid-19 in Brazil. Barbara’s research has been publish
 ed in journals such as Research Policy\, Social Science and Medicine\, a
 nd Technological Forecasting and Social Change. She is an Associate Edit
 or of the Journal of Responsible Innovation.\n\n___________________\n\nT
 he Manchester Institute of Innovation Research runs a series of regular 
 seminars given by visiting speakers to Manchester. These seminars are op
 en to anybody who is interested in science\, technology and innovation p
 olicy and management.
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