Judy Wajcman is a Professor of Sociology

Sociology

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 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

She was formerly a Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Australian National University

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. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business

Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business

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 at London Business School

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, and at the Oxford Internet Institute. She has previously held posts in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Warwick and Zurich. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She was the first woman fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge (Norman Laski Research Fellow 1978-80).

Judy Wajcman LSE staff profile.

She is President (2009-2011) of the Society for the Social Studies of Society (4S).
4S website.

Research

Wajcman is probably best known for her analysis of the gendered nature of technology. She was one of the founding contributors to the social studies of technology, as well as to studies of gender, work, and organisations.

Her books include The Social Shaping of Technology, Feminism Confronts Technology, Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management, The Politics of Working Life and TechnoFeminism. She is also a co-editor of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Her work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Selected publications (Books)

• The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (with Ed Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska and Mike Lynch), MIT Press, 2008.
• The Politics of Working Life (with Paul Edwards), Oxford: OUP, 2005.
• TechnoFeminism Polity Press, 2004.
• The Social Shaping of Technology (with Donald MacKenzie), Open University Press, 1999.
• Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management Polity Press, 1998.
• Feminism Confronts Technology Polity Press, 1991.
• The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum (with Donald MacKenzie), Open University Press, 1985.
• Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-operative The Open University Press, 1983.

Articles/Chapters (selected)

•'Constant Connectivity: Rethinking interruptions at work', with Emily Rose, Organization Studies, Vol. 32, No. 7, 2011, pp. 941–962.

•'Feminist Theories of Technology', Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2010, pp. 143–152.

•'The Mobile Phone, Perpetual Contact and Time Pressure', with Michael Bittman and Jude Brown, Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2009, pp. 673–691.

•'Families without Borders: Mobile phones, connectedness and work-home divisions' with Michael Bittman and Jude Brown, Sociology , Vol. 42, No.4, 2008, pp. 635–652.

•'Life in the fast lane? Towards a sociology of technology and time', British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 59, No.1, 2008, pp. 59–77.

•'New Connections: social studies of science and technology and studies of work', Work, Employment and Society, Vol.20, No.4, 2006, pp. 773–786.

•'Markets, Contingency and Preferences: Contemporary Managers' Narrative Identities', with Bill Martin, The Sociological Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2004, pp. 240–264.

•'The Rush Hour: The Character of Leisure Time and Gender Equity', with Michael Bittman, Social Forces, Vol. 79, No. 1, 2000, pp. 165–189.