Jamie Woodcock
Researcher
Dr Jamie Woodcock

Dr Jamie Woodcock is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. He is part of the Fairwork Foundation, a project investigating and certifying online platform work.

Jamie is the author of Working The Phones, a study of a call centre in the UK inspired by the workers' inquiry. His current research focuses on digital labour, the sociology of work, the gig economy, resistance, and videogames. He has previously worked as a postdoc on a research project about videogames, as well as another on the crowdsourcing of citizen science. Jamie completed his PhD in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Queen Mary, NYU London, Cass Business School, and the LSE.

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