Dr. Philip Wotschack

About

Philip Wotschack is research group lead in the research group “Working with Artificial Intelligence”. His research interest is primarily focused on issues of AI, work, and organizations, and related changes in  co-determination, training and personnel development.

Philip Wotschack has joined the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in 2018. He has a PhD in Behavioural and Social Sciences from the University of Groningen. Since 2005 he has been researcher at the WZB Social Science Center. He was leading the research project ‘Company-provided further training for the labor market integration of low-skilled workers’ funded by the German Research Foundation and worked for the European research project “Democracy at Work through Inclusive Algorithmic Management” funded by the European Commission.

Recent research has been published in journals such as Work, Employment & Society, AI & Society, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, European Societies, Social Politics, the Journal of Sociology, and Soziale Welt. Philip Wotschack is the research editor of the “Social Report – A Data Report for Germany.” He served as a program director in the doctoral program “Good Work in a Transformative World” at the WZB and was a member of the scientific advisory board for the “Center for Digital Work” project, part of the “Centers for the Future” program funded by the BMAS.

Research Group: Work with Artificial Intelligence

Memberships, committees and functions

• Advisory board Project "Zentrum Digitale Arbeit" (program „Zukunftszentren“). Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
• Head of two thematic areas in the doctoral program “Good work in a Transformative Work”. WZB Berlin Social Science Center