Join the Industrial Transformation Research Hub
for work in the digital age
Collaboration Opportunities
This Industrial Transformation Hub is a new initiative supporting individuals and organisations to thrive in the digital future of work.
The exciting initiative is led by The Future of Work Institute. We are seeking partners to join this important endeavour.
How will the Hub operate?
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Focus on human health and productivity with a socio-digital perspective
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Engagement with multiple industries to increase skill transfer and employability
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Industry-research collaboration to produce practical and actionable outcomes
Digital transformation has the potential to greatly improve health and productivity for people at work. However, uncertainty is generating urgent questions for government, business, and communities.
What skills will be
needed as jobs change
through digitalisation?
How will humans and machines work together optimally in decision-making teams?
How do we assess the
benefits of digital
technology through
effective organising?
The solutions to these questions will not be found in the technology itself. Techno-centric solutions often fail, harming both health and productivity. It is a truism that people are the key to successful change, but this simple message masks the serious challenge of optimising healthy and productive work.
The new hub will develop new ways of ensuring people and technology work together for
a better future.
Core themes and activities
Theme 1. Future workskills: Lifelong learning
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Developing the skills and knowledge of future work
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Implementing education, training and learning systems for digital work of the future
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Cross-industry digital skills to enhance employability and workforce planning
Theme 2. Human-machineteaming: Intelligent collaboration
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Optimising workflows and information within networked command centres
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Enhancing decision making in human-machine teams
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Transparency and interpretability in autonomous team systems
Theme 3. Transforming work: Organising better through technology
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Designing work to improve the effective use of new technology
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Enhancing organisational readiness for digitalisation
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Ensuring health and wellbeing of workers during transformation
Core themes and activities
Theme 1. Future work skills: Lifelong learning
-
Developing the skills and knowledge of future work
-
Implementing education, training and learning systems for digital work of the future
-
Cross-industry digital skills to enhance employability and workforce planning
Theme 2. Human-machine teaming: Intelligent collaboration
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Optimising workflows and information within networked command centres
-
Enhancing decision making in human-machine teams
-
Transparency and interpretability in autonomous team systems
Theme 3. Transforming work: Organising better through technology
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Designing work to improve the effective use of new technology
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Enhancing organisational readiness for digitalisation
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Ensuring health and wellbeing of workers during transformation
Benefits for industry
partners
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Solve workforce challenges for future skills, workforce strategy, and digital transformation
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Access Australia’s leading researchers through collaborative and multidisciplinary projects
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Join a network of world-class practitioners working with organisations
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Lead new developments in shaping how people work with technology
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Provide input into the skills and training required for the next generation workforce
Case studies
Developing adaptive work skills for technology innovations in care
A project creating new opportunities for care workers to collaborate with designers and managers to build new services for client management, communication and business services.
Integrating AI and teams in emergency response
Integrating algorithms and human judgement to visualise
and support communication
across diverse groups responding to a crisis.
Designing a socio-digital organisation
Optimising work and non-work systems to ensure human endurance
and demanding work environments with evolving technologies.
About the Industrial Transformation Scheme
The Scheme is jointly funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), Curtin University and industry partners. The ARC will contribute up to $1million per annum for four years towards the projects. The ARC funds will be combined with cash and in-kind contributions from Curtin University and industry partners.
How to participate
Get in touch to find out how you can participate in the Hub and how we can develop a research program to benefit your organisation.
Timeline
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Industry partners to lodge an expression of interest (30 June 2020)
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Completion of internal draft application (31 August 2020)
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ARC deadline for submission (09 December 2020)
Contact us
+61 8 9266 2279
Mr Andrew Bell
+61 8 9266 3950
+61 (0) 421083289