Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
E-mail: ias@lancaster.ac.uk
Gendering the Knowledge Economy
co-funded by the ESRC and IAS
16-17 March 2006
Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.
Organizer: Sylvia Walby (Lancaster)
This workshop, co-funded by the ESRC, brought together an excellent line
up of top-class international speakers not only from UK and Europe but
also from Iceland and Japan. It was also well attended by Lancaster faculty.
The quality of discussion was excellent and the outcome has been a call
for papers to produce a special issue of Gender, Work and Organization
on Gendering the Knowledge Economy.
Programme
Papers 1
- Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University)
‘Introduction to gendering the knowledge economy: What is gender equality in the knowledge economy?’ - Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University)
‘Agencies in technology design: Feminist reconfigurations’ - Lilja Mósesdóttir (Bifrost University, Iceland, EU
WELLKNOW Coordinator)
‘Gender equality in the knowledge economy’ - Karen Shire (University of Essen-Duisburg)
‘Gender and employment contracts in the German knowledge economy’ - Mia Gray (Cambridge University)
‘Job segmentation and gendered social networks in the knowledge economy’ - Amparo Serrano-Pascual (Complutense University, Madrid)
‘Gender and employment challenges of the Knowledge based society’ - Juliet Webster (Work and Equality Research)
‘Changing European gender relations: The findings of recent social research and their implications for gender equality policy’
Policy panel
- George Baxter, Head of Innovation, Science & Technology, NorthWest Development Agency
- David Darton, Director of Strategy Research, Information, Equal Opportunities Commission
- Janet Veitch, Director, Women’s National Commission
Papers 2
- Makiko Nishikawa (University of Hosei, Japan) - ‘Are care workers knowledge workers?’
- Antony Hesketh (Lancaster University) - ‘Knowledge ceilings’
- Alison Adam (Salford University) - ‘Gender and technology trouble; Gendered identities in the IT workplace’
- Maria Caprile (Fundacio Centre d’Iniciatives I Recerques Europees a la Mediterrania, Barcelona) - ‘Measuring progress towards the knowledge based society: quality of working life and gender equality’
- Jacky Brine (University of the West of England) - ‘Lifelong learning and the knowledge economy’
- Susan Durbin (University of the West of England) - ‘Theorising women's networks in the knowledge economy’
- Lisa Adkins (University of Manchester) - ‘New patterns of working life: The end of the sexual contract?’
Concluding panel
- Alice Lam (Royal Holloway University of London)
- Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University)
- David Knights (Keele University)
- Mieke Verloo (Radbound University, Netherlands)
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