{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100569"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100569","attributes":{"code":"FT250100569","administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-01-15","anticipated-end-date":"2030-01-14","grant-summary":"After the Future of Work: Platformised Labour in a Hotter Australia. This project aims to investigate the growing conflict between digitally-coordinated labour seen as the future of work and rising heat from climate change, which deeply impacts it but is not accounted for. This project expects to generate new knowledge about pressures on Australian workers by collecting worker stories and rethinking work using an interdisciplinary lens from media, labour, and environmental studies. Expected outcomes include a map of key climate-tech issues and a climate-aware blueprint for better work. This should provide significant benefits: integrating climate into work models and systems will support worker well-being and foster a future-ready economy in our hotter and more uncertain world. ","funding-current":991302.00,"funding-at-announcement":970253,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Luke","familyName":"Munn","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-1018-7433 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Luke","familyName":"Munn","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-1018-7433 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4701","name":"Communication and Media Studies","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"470102","name":"Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"470207","name":"Cultural Theory","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"160206","name":"Workforce Transition and Employment","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"190103","name":"Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"220502","name":"Internet, Digital and Social Media","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Canada"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"This project addresses an intertwined challenge facing the next generation of Australian workers: platformisation (using digital technologies to optimise work) and climate-driven heat. Traditional work is giving way to informal and on-demand forms managed by digital technologies. Yet these models ignore the climate, placing workers in danger and enacting a heavy toll on the planet. As heat rises and heat waves become frequent, existing models prove insufficient, with workers collapsing, millions of hours lost, and estimates of 15% less GDP. The so-called future of work does not work. \n\nDrawing on my decade of research on digitally-transformed labour, this Fellowship expects to (1) identify how frictions between platformised work and climate heat impact Australian workers; and (2) blueprint a new model of work that fuses digital efficiency with ecological awareness. This interdisciplinary project innovates by grasping work as a lived experience deeply shaped by both digital technologies and climate realities. \n\nExpected benefits to Australia are economic, in offering a more resilient and future-ready work model; social in upholding worker safety and dignity; and environmental, in fostering more sustainable systems and approaches. Expected research outcomes include a dataset of worker stories, scholarly articles conceptualising this issue and advancing knowledge, a policy brief for government, and best-practice guidelines for the tech industry."}}}