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Position: Professor of Sociology
Judy Wajcman was formerly a Centennial Professor in the Gender Institute and Sociology at the London School of Economics, and is an Associate Fellow of the Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick Business School. She has previously held posts in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Warwick and Zurich. She is currently a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. She has recently been appointed as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and as a Visiting Professor at London Business School.
Selected books
The Politics of Working life
with Paul Edwards
Oxford University Press, Oxford
2005
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TechnoFeminism
Polity Press, Cambridge
2004
Reviews |
The Social Shaping of Technology
with Donald MacKenzie
Open University Press, Milton Keynes
1999
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Managing Like a Man: Women
and Men in Corporate Management
Polity Press, Cambridge
1998
Reviews |
Feminism Confronts Technology
Polity Press, Cambridge
1991 |
Women in Control:Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-operative
The Open University Press
1983 |
Research
Judy Wajcman's research has centred on technological change, employment relations and organisational analysis. She is an expert in feminist theory in these areas and has developed a theoretical framework for the analysis of technology and social change, known as the social shaping approach. She conducted one of the earliest British studies of women workers and gender relations in the home and the workplace, and was a co-founder of the women's studies programme at Cambridge University. She is perhaps best known for her landmark study of the gendered character of technology, Feminism Confronts Technology. The gender relations of senior management in a post-equal opportunities world was the subject of Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management, a book that integrates theoretical work in the areas of organizations, gender and management with an analysis of changing patterns of work, careers, and occupational labour markets.
Recent books include TechnoFeminism, an exploration of how feminist theory and science and technology studies understand the gender-technology relation in the new digital age, and The Politics of Working Life (co-authored with Paul Edwards) that consolidates her research on the sociology of work and employment. She is also on the editorial board for a new U.S. edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (MIT 2007). Professor Wajcman's current major project, funded by the ARC (with Michael Bittman and Paul Jones), explores the impact of information and communication technologies such as the mobile phone on time poverty and work-family balance. The first report of this project is available here.
April 2008 update: the main report is available here. |
