Webinar

Agile working in a digital space

Name: Agile working in a digital space
Start: 2024-11-19
End: 2024-11-19

The eleventh agiLab workshop will explore the importance of relationships in a digital space, system automation and AI to support agile arrangements.

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Time: 19 November 2024 10:00 - 13:00 GMT
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Audience: Open to all

Speakers

Emma Russell
Reader in Occupational & Organizational Psychology University of Sussex Business School
Dr Francesca Sobande
Writer and Reader in digital media Cardiff University
Dr Iain Coyne
Reader in Organisational Psychology Loughborough Business School
Sarah Hayden
Director of People Operations Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

agiLab is a collaboration between University of Sussex and the NHS to develop research led best practice for effective agile working.

Join us at the next agiLab workshop that will explore the impact of digital platforms on the way we relate to one another in an agile working environment.

You will be given practical tips on transforming your workplace using automation and Artificial Intelligence to support agile working arrangements.

Programme

Dr Emma Russell, director of agiLab, will open the session and provide a research round up on agile working.
Cyberbullying at work: Addressing new forms of counterproductive behaviours in digital work
Dr Iain Coyne, reader at Loughborough University, will focus on cyberbullying and how this differs from traditional forms of bullying at work.
This presentation will consider the concept of cyberbullying, how it has been defined, what types of behaviours emerge and the extent of cyberbullying at work. We will then consider the unique features of cyberbullying and whether cyberbullying at work is different to face-to-face bullying. In discussion with our agiLab audience, we will reflect on the conditions that may exacerbate this type of counterproductive behaviour in digital workspaces, and what can be done to identify and limit cyberbullying at work.
Dr Iain Coyne is a reader in organisational psychology at Loughborough Business School, a chartered psychologist and a registered occupational psychologist. He has been researching workplace bullying for around 20 years and has written several peer-reviewed papers, edited a book and presented at national and international conferences on this topic. Dr Coyne was a member of a working party for the Chartered Management Institute which developed a workplace bullying guide for managers and a management committee member for a European COST Action IS0801 on Cyberbullying in educational contexts.
(In)visible experiences and places of work
Dr Francesca Sobande, Cardiff University will reflect on her lived experiences and explore the impact of building responsible and considerate online communities.
Reflecting on the interconnections of emotional, mental, and physical dimensions of work, this session focuses on both visible and invisible elements of these experiences. Such discussion addresses a range of challenges faced by people in the workplace, including forms of oppression experienced by neurodivergent/neurodiverse people, and the compounded impacts of racism, sexism, and ableism. Featuring suggestions for how organisations can cultivate a more inclusive and flexible work culture, this session encourages everyone to consider what might make a place of work meaningful or somewhere people feel supported.
Francesca Sobande is a writer and reader in digital media studies at Cardiff University. Her books include Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2024), Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19 (SAGE, 2022), and The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Francesca is a co-author/co-dreamer with Layla-Roxanne Hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the free graphic novel and animation Black Oot Here: Dreams O Us (2023). Their forthcoming work includes the book Look, Don't Touch: Reflections on the Freedom to Feel (404 Ink, 2025).
Sarah Hayden, director of people operations, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, will share how automation and AI is supporting agile working and the resulting benefits for the trust and its staff.
As the initiator of robotic process automation (RPA) at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT), Sarah has led a successful automation journey within the people services directorate, which is now being adopted across the trust. Sarah’s visionary leadership of the programme has led to KCHFT being able to offer automation support to its ICB partner organisations and beyond, as well as enabling Sarah and her team to be in a position to run transactional people services on behalf of other NHS organisations. Sarah is dedicated to delivering innovative and dynamic people services, ensuring customer experience is paramount and the KCHFT values are at the heart of everything and is just beginning to explore how AI could further support the delivery of efficiencies at KCHFT.

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