Dr. Emmanuelle Walkowiak

Dr Walkowiak has 20 years' experience as an Economist studying how the rapid adoption of technologies drives the transformation of work and organizations. She is a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT and a research affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Her current research analyses the impact of the digital transformation on the future of work and inclusion. More specifically, she focuses on the quality of working life of workers of platforms, neurodiversity and the digital transformation of workplaces, inclusion/exclusion and AI, and the impact of blockchain technologies on governance. In September 2023, she has launched the FLOW-GenAI initiative hosted within Digital3 which is focused on the changing nature of work with Generative AI.

Emmanuelle has a strong international background and has worked in the US, the UK, and France. Emmanuelle was the principal investigator of several research projects in France and Europe (project COI-COSA on computerisation, organisation and IT; Evaluation of the efficiency of short-time work subsidies in France).

She was awarded a PhD in Economics by the University Paris IX-Dauphine (France) in 2005.

• Co-investigator (PI team) of a 3-year project on the diffusion of IT and reorganisations of the workplace (called COI-COSA) financed by the National Agency of Research (total budget EUR200,000 / AUD306,000). The National Agency of Research in France is equivalent to the ARC in Australia. This project involved an extensive co-ordination/collaboration with 4 research centres. 
• Principal Investigator of a project on the evaluation of the work-sharing program in France between 1995 and 2005, financed by the French Ministry of Labour and Employment (total budget EUR33,000 / AUD50,000)
• Scientific coordinator for the CEET (Center for studies on employment and work) under the supervision of Professor N. Greenan of the European project WORKS (Work Organisation and Restructuring in a Knowledge Society), financed by the European Commission involving 13 EU countries (total budget EUR3.8M / AUD5.8M).