Judy Wajcman

Judy Wajcman
Academic work
Main interestsSocial Studies of Technology

Work and Employment

Sociology of Time
Notable worksThe Social Shaping of Technology

Feminism Confronts Technology TechnoFeminism

Pressed for Time
Websitehttps://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/judy-wajcman

Judy Wajcman, FBA FASSA[1] is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[2] She is the Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute. She is also a visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her scholarly interests encompass the sociology of work, science and technology studies, gender theory, and organizational analysis. Her work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. Prior to joining the LSE in 2009, she was a Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.[3] She was the first woman to be appointed the Norman Laski Research Fellow (1978–80) at St. John's College, Cambridge.[4] In 1997 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[5]

Wajcman was President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science[6] (2009-2011), and is the recipient of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award of the American Sociological Association (2013). She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (2015) and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (2016).[7] Her book Pressed for Time is the (2017) winner of the Ludwik Fleck prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science. In 2018, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute. In 2021, she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science.

  1. ^ "Wajcman, Judy". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2015. Sources: found: The Social shaping of technology, 1998: CIP t.p. (Judy Wajcman, Sch. Soc., Aust. Nat. Univ.) data sheet (b. 12/12/50)
  2. ^ "Wajcman, Judy". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  3. ^ Folbre, Nancy; Bittman, Michael (2004), "Contributors", in Folbre, Nancy; Bittman, Michael (eds.), Family time: the social organization of care, London New York: Routledge, p. x ISBN 9780203411650
  4. ^ "Professor Judy Wajcman". London School of Economics and Political Science. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Judy Wajcman FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Past Presidents and Council Members: Presidents". 4sonline.org. Society for the Social Studies of Science. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  7. ^ "British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows". 15 July 2016.