Golo Henseke

UCL Institute of Education

20 Bedford Way

London WC1H 0AL

Associate Professor at UCL Institute of Education, specialising in applied economics and quantitative social sciences. I study how education, skills and new technologies — especially generative AI — reshape jobs, inequality and life chances. I am associated with the LLAKES Research Centre and the Oxford-based Centre for Global Higher Education. For publication and profile: UCL Profile.

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From Exposure to Adoption: Generative AI in European Workplaces

Golo Henseke

arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18849, 2026

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This study examines who adopts generative AI and whether early adoption has begun to reshape the task content of jobs across 35 European countries. Adoption ranges from under 3% to 25%, and occupational exposure strongly predicts uptake, but AI does not diffuse passively along exposure lines. At the worker level, skills, abstract task content, and employee organisational influence steepen the exposure-adoption gradient; at the country level, so do digitalisation and workplace training. A gender gap persists, concentrated in the most exposed occupations, and a shift-share design finds no detectable effect of adoption on worker-reported task restructuring, consistent with an initial integration phase.
Degrees of demand: a task-based analysis of the British graduate labour market

Golo Henseke, Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and 1 more author

Oxford Economic Papers, 2025

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This study investigates the evolving demand for graduate skills in the British workforce, leveraging a task-based approach with data from the Skills and Employment Survey Series.
How exposed are UK jobs to generative AI? Developing and applying a novel task-based index

Golo Henseke, Rhys Davies, Alan Felstead, and 3 more authors

arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22748, 2025

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We develop the Generative AI Susceptibility Index (GAISI), a task-based measure of UK job exposure to large language models. By 2023-24, nearly all UK jobs exhibited some exposure, yet only a minority were heavily affected.
Revisiting the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 on Young Adults in the UK: Long-Term Trends, Temporary Setbacks, and Recovery

Golo Henseke and Ingrid Schoon

Social Indicators Research, 2025

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This study assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of 16- to 29-year-olds in the United Kingdom, using longitudinal data covering the period from 2001 to 2023.