Technological Innovation and Social Change

Wendy is retiring, so I don't know how long her page here will remain active - get material on gender and STI before it goes!  Sorry for mis-spelling name in the title of this post!

‘Genders in/of engineering’, which was the subject of an ESRC funded ethnographic study of engineers and their work between 2003 and 2005. [click here for full research report] .

European collaborative study about strategies of gender inclusion in the information society (SIGIS), which has generated a massive resource for theory and policy development around gender and ICT. [See www.sigis.ist.org]

Another European collaborative project, Prometea, investigating women in engineering research [See www.prometea.info]

The politics and processes of enhancing public engagement in new or controversial areas of science and technology -  contributes to the programme of socioeconomic research on innovation in genomics at the University of Edinburgh INNOGEN Centre. [See www.talkingstemcells.ed.ac.uk]

the  course:
* Gender, Science and Technology (Honours course) [click here for course handout]