Dr Fabian Stephany
About
Dr Fabian Stephany is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, a Research Affiliate at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and a Fellow at the Brussels-based Think Tank Bruegel.
Leading the SkillScale Project, Dr Stephany investigates the emergence of new skills and sustainability of novel occupations in times of technological disruption.
He is a co-creator of the Online Labour Observatory – a digital data hub, hosted by the OII and the International Labour Organisation, for researchers, policy makers, journalists, and the public interested in online platform work. His research has been published in leading academic journals and covered by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Statesman, Nikkei Asia, and other popular media around the world.
Dr Stephany holds a PhD and degrees in Economics and Social Sciences from different European institutions, including Universitá Bocconi Milan and University of Cambridge. As an economist and senior data scientist, Dr Stephany has been working in the private sector and for various actors in the international policy landscape, such as the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank or the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in Paris.
Expertise
- The future of work amid technological disruption
- Jobs/skills of the future
- Upskilling and reskilling
- Platform economy
- Online gig economy / Online labour
- Network science
- Internet economics
Selected publications
- What is the Price of a Skill? The Role of Complementarity. Stephany, F., Teutloff, O. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2022)
- "The CoRisk-Index: a data-mining approach to identify industry-specific risk perceptions related to Covid-19", Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9 (1). Stephany, F., Neuhäuser, L., Stoehr, N., Darius, P., Teutloff, O., Braesemann, F. (2022)
- "The global polarisation of remote work", PLOS ONE Cherifi, H. (eds.). 17 (10) e0274630. Braesemann, F., Stephany, F., Teutloff, O., Kässi, O., Graham, M. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2022)
- "Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market", Big Data & Society. 8 (2) 205395172110432. Stephany, F., Kässi, O., Rani, U. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2021)
- "One Size Does Not Fit All: Constructing Complementary Digital Re-Skilling Strategies Using Online Labour Market Data", Big Data and Society. 8 (1) 1-5. Stephany, F. (2021)
- "How Many Online Workers are There in the World? A Data-Driven Assessment", Open Research Europe. 1 53. Kässi, O., Lehdonvirta, V. and Stephany, F. (2021)
- "Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend? Utilising Information-seeking Behaviour Patterns to Predict US Congressional Elections", Information Communication and Society. 26 (1) 174-200. Salem, H. and Stephany, F. (2020)
- "Distancing Bonus or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of US Online Workers in Times of COVID-19", Journal of Economic & Social Geography. 111 (3) 561-573. Stephany, F., Dunn, M., Sawyer, S. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2020)
Media experience
Dr Fabian Stephany has extensive experience in working with the media in various forms, such as contributions to topical articles or appearing in podcasts, radio and video interviews. He has participated in training courses on how to exchange with journalists and how to present research findings to a broader audience. Dr Stephany's research has been covered by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Statesman, Nikkei Asia, and other popular media around the world.
Recent media work
- Why Aren’t People Going Back to Their Jobs? (The New York Times, 2021)
- Britain employs more 'crowdworkers' than anywhere in Europe (The Telegraph, 2020)
- #10 Innovations Part 2: the technologies of the future (Net New - The Meta Podcast, 2022)
- Using artificial intelligence to find the right training for you (Stimme, 2022)
- Sound of Economics podcast: Online labour: Can we all just move to Tahiti? (Podcast, 2022)
- Inside Scoop: Gig Economy w/ Oxford Internet Institute, With Takes on Fiverr and Upwork (Podcast, 2021)
Languages
English, German