Lola Brittain

Lola Brittain is a Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, where she serves as a Research Assistant on the Fairwork project. She concurrently works part-time for Wings, a platform cooperative offering ethical food delivery alternatives. Holding an MSc in Politics and Communications from the London School of Economics (LSE), her professional background includes consumer research.

Her research focuses on platform cooperativism, critiques of platform capitalism, digital labor dynamics, media datafication, and media/platform imaginaries. She actively contributes to projects like Walking the walk, examining AI implementation in workplaces through a fair work lens.

Recent contributions include co-authoring reports advocating for regulatory protections for UK platform workers and analyzing working conditions for AI-driven internet laborers. Her interdisciplinary work bridges social science, digital ethics, and labor rights within the OII's research ecosystem.