High-flying Oxford researchers win £100k Philip Leverhulme prizes

Four young professors at the University of Oxford have today been awarded £100k  Philip Leverhulme prizes,  for early career researchers, whose work has already had an 'international impact' and whose future research career is 'exceptionally promising'. Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl , from Oxford's Law faculty, Theologian Professor Laura Quick , Professor  Heather Harrington from Mathematics and the Biologist Dr Tanmay Bharat have been honoured for their work  Talking about the award, Professor Adams-Prassl says, 'I'm incredibly grateful and excited - the Leverhulme Prize will support inter-disciplinary research on the global rise of algorithmic management, not least by bringing together early career researchers from across the world.' Professor Laura Quick says, 'I am thrilled to receive this award, which will allow me to begin a new project on the concepts of beauty and aesthetics in the Hebrew Bible.' Professor Adams-Prassl's research is at the cutting edge of 21^st century technology - looking at the implications of artificial intelligence and algorithms for employment law. The prize will help fund research on how employment law can respond to a world in which automation has not replaced workers-but their bosses? Dr Adams-Prassl maintains, 'I hope to provide the first systematic account of the legal challenges brought about by algorithmic management in workplaces..