Ashique Thuppilikkat

Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat (he/him) is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, and a researcher at STREET Lab. His research focuses on the role of technology in worker resistance and unionisation amidst the platformization of urban life. He examines how digital tools can support unions and workers on location-based digital labour platforms in organising and resisting the impacts of algorithmic management and environmental hazards.

Ashique is also the co-founder of the SAFAR Foundation, an action research centre in West Bengal, India. His work has been recognised with the Lawson Climate and Sustainability Student Research Award and the Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship.

His research has been published in leading academic venues, including the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Proceedings on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), Gender & Development, and Economic and Political Weekly. His public commentary has appeared in The Conversation and Jacobin.