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Charity Status
The board of Trustees are delighted to announce that Digital Anthropology has been given the green light from the Charity Commission. The newly formed charity will be working really hard to achieve its purposes and is committed [...]
Richard appears on BBC World Service
Richard features in today's Business Daily programme with Elizabeth Hotson on the subject of Rich and Frugal? The question surrounded why some people with big money are small spenders. Richard Skellett, our founder explains why he sees [...]
Are You an Asset or a Liability?
What Does Your Employer Think? In his latest article Richard explores employees real value to their employers and how the shift post Covid will be further automation. One certainty about the future of work is that roles, [...]
We are recruiting our board of trustees
We are busy reaching out to some key people who we have identified as being ideal trustees to support us on our journey. However we are really keen to hear from people who are committed to what [...]
We’re evolving into a charity
Richard Skellett established Digital Anthropology originally as a campaign and lobbying voice to raise awareness of how automation would affect the entire employment landscape. As a future of work expert, Richard wanted to highlight the issues [...]
The Traditional Transformation Model is Dead
It’s Time be a Transformer In his latest SSON article Richard explores the need for both companies and individuals to be in a constant state of re-invention McKinsey suggests that by 2030, intelligent agents and robots could [...]
The Important Role the Gig Economy Will Play in the Future Workplace
Future of Work Concepts Already Apply In his latest article for the SSON Network Richard talks about the changes needed to ensure that gig workers aren't taken advantage of and to eradicate zero hour contracts. Covid-19 will [...]
Digital Anthropology comes to the rescue of Derby Graduate’s business
Digital Anthropology founder, Richard Skellett has stepped in to rescue Derby University graduate Samad Olatunji’s business. The pair met after Richard began a mentoring programme with final year students on the Digital Marketing degree course. Digital [...]
Digital Anthropology Launch Innovative Workforce Exchange
Digital Anthropology - a social enterprise associated with campaigning to put people issues at the heart of the technology debate is today launching a solution to staff redeployment across the UK. This unique new exchange platform [...]
Don’t be Next – be first!
Today, Next CEO, Lord Wolfson said ‘people don’t buy a new outfit to stay at home’. In previous times that would be true, but today we are in very strange times. In strange times we see [...]
Why Virgin Care should be the poster child for outsourcing to social enterprises
This week I was appalled to learn that Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Care business has not paid a penny of corporation tax, despite receiving over £2 billion through NHS and other local authority contracts. This only [...]
Meghan and Harry might be looking for financial independence – but what about the million who never can?
I am flabbergasted to read that Meghan and Harry need to work towards financial independence. What does that mean? You and I probably have disposable and non-disposable income to manage daily. Most of us need that [...]
Richard Skellett to speak alongside Dr Temple Grandin
Digital Anthropology founder Richard Skellett will speak alongside the world's leading expert on autism at the Temple Talks Autism Conference in Glasgow on Wednesday 15 May. Dr Grandin is regarded as the face of autism. She [...]
Digital Anthropology in the news – February 2019
Digital Anthropology founder Richard Skellett has been featured in various news outlets and publications throughout February, having been asked to comment on a range of different topics including future of work, social enterprises and security. AI, [...]
Richard Skellett to speak at Future of Work Summit
Digital Anthropology founder Richard Skellett will speak at the Future of Work Summit, which takes place on Thursday 13 June during London Tech Week. Richard will lead and moderate a panel debate titled 'Mind the (Skills) [...]
Jobs at risk as Japan deploys robots to replace manual labour
A technology company in Japan has unveiled a humanoid robot prototype designed to autonomously perform heavy labour or work in hazardous environments. The 'Blade Runner-style' robot has been developed by the Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) [...]
Microsoft and Mastercard create digital identities sparking fears of ‘mass surveillance’
Digital Anthropology founder Richard Skellett spoke to the Daily Star around plans for corporate giants Microsoft and Mastercard to create 'digital identities' for consumers. Richard warned of the potential for intimate online data to be misused, [...]
The Fast Food Production Line
Digital Anthropology founder Richard Skellett spoke to BBC Future for a piece that came out in early December on the rising use of robotics and artificial intelligence at fast food restaurants. The article features Creator in [...]
Jobs Gone in the Blink of an AI
Much has been made of the comments from Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane earlier in 2018 that 'large swathes' of people will become 'technologically unemployed' as AI makes roles obsolete. Nodding towards the other [...]
Talk Radio
Digital Anthropology's Richard Skellett was a guest on TalkRadio's early breakfast show with James Max on 28 November. Discussing the impacts of Labour's proposed raising of the minimum wage, Richard pointed to a report by the [...]