Ursula Huws

Ursula Huws is the founder and director of Analytica Social and Economic Research and Analytica Publications.
She is also honorary visiting  professor of International Labour Studies at London Metropolitan University at the Global Policy Institute  at London Metropolitan University. She is an Academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences and the editor of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation.

Credited with coining the word 'teleworking' she has for over a quarter of a century been carrying out pioneering research on the social impacts of technological change, the telemediated relocation of employment and the changing international division of labour and has designed and directed a large number of international research projects the most famous of which is probably the EMERGENCE group of projects in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. In addition to her research activities she has also worked in the media and as a university teacher as well as publishing and lecturing widely.