Just Chains

Project title: Just Chains: Global services and the future of work

Project duration: October 2025-October 2027

Funder: UWE Bristol Vice-Chancellor's Early Career Researcher Award

Project leader for SPE: Dr Aditya Ray

Research partners/collaborators:

• International Labour Organization
• IT-for-Change India

The Just Chains project explores ongoing transformations in global technology and outsourcing supply chains in the age of artificial intelligence, alongside the regulation and governance of platform economies. Using a mixed qualitative methodology, including in-person and virtual interviews, ethnographies, discourse analysis, and stakeholder workshops, the research examines how technological change is reshaping work, labour, governance, and global value chains. The first phase of international fieldwork in India has recently been completed.

• Workshop: Trajectories of platform power in the AI age: Infrastructure, labor, and India's place in the global digital economy.

For more information about the project, please contact Dr Aditya Ray (aditya.ray@uwe.ac.uk).