Judy Wajcman, is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the

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. 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

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. 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

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. She was the first woman to be appointed the Norman Laski Research Fellow (1978–80) at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1997 she was elected Fellow of the

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. Wajcman was President of the

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(2009–2011), and is the recipient of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award of the

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(2013). She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (2015) and was elected a

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of the

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(2016). 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.''

Research

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

Selected bibliography

Books

* * * * * * * * * Wajcman, Judy; Dodd, Nigel (2017).''The sociology of speed: Digital, organizational, and social temporalities''. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press. .

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Book chapters

* * * * * Frade, Renata & Wajcman, Judy (2023). "Feminism and Technology: an interview with Dr. Judy Wajcman by Renata Frade", in Frade, R. and Vairinhos, Mário (eds), ''Technofeminism: multi and transdisciplinary contemporary views on women in technology'': Aveiro, UA Editora, ISBN 978-972-789-836-7https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/37656

Journal articles

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *‘How Silicon Valley sets Time’, ''New Media & Society'', Vol. 21(6), 2019, pp. 1272–1289. *‘The Digital Architecture of Time Management’, ''Science, Technology, & Human Values'', Vol. 44, No. 2, 2019, pp. 315–337.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wajcman, Judy 1950 births Academics of London Business School Academics of the London School of Economics Academic staff of the Australian National University Australian sociologists Australian women sociologists Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Living people Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish sociologists Jewish Australian writers Jewish philosophers Science and technology studies scholars Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Philosophers of technology