Prof Clem Herman
Professor Of Gender And Technology
School of Computing & Communications
Biography
Professional biography
Clem Herman is Emerita Professor of Gender and Technology in the School of Computing and Communications.
Research interests
The focus of my research has been to bring a critical gender analysis to the experiences of women who return after taking a career break to work in STEM related fields and in particular the locations, both temporal and spatial, in which their identities as scientists, engineers and technologists are developed, nurtured, curtailed or rekindled. I have published widely on the employability and careers of women returners and in particular the impact of career breaks for women in engineering and technology companies. Recent projects have included Gender Skilled Migration and IT: A comparative study of UK and India, and Gendered Microaggressions in Computing Higher Education.
External collaborations
Clem is the founder and Editor in Chief of the open access International Journal of Gender Science and Technology
Publications
Book Chapter
Women in Computing Higher Education: Students, Educators and Researchers (2021)
Skilled Migration and IT Sector: A Gendered Analysis (2019)
Re/constructing engineering and technology careers: support for women returners in the UK (2010)
Online participation: Shaping the networks of professional women (2009)
Crossing the digital divide: experiences of gender and technology in a community ICT centre (2008)
Crossing the digital divide: experiences of gender and technology in a community ICT Centre (2006)
Becoming digital: empowerment, identity and community ICTs (2003)
Journal Article
Using a Blended Learning Approach to support Women returning to STEM (2019)
[Editorial] Innovations in STEM distance education (2019)
The Triple Whammy: Gendered Careers of Geographically Marginalised Academic STEM Women (2018)
Returning to STEM: gendered factors affecting employability for mature women students (2015)
Women scientists and engineers in European companies: putting motherhood under the microscope (2013)
Entitled to a sustainable career? Motherhood in science, engineering and technology (2012)
Using creative multimedia in teaching and learning ICTs: a case study (2012)
Presence for professional development: students in the virtual world (2011)
After a career break: supporting women returning to ICT (2011)
Current issues for gender and SET: Perspectives from research, policy and practice (2009)
Patterns of online networking for women’s career development (2009)
Still a gendered technology?: Issues in teaching ICT at the UK Open University (2003)
From Visions to Reality: Changing Women's Perspectives at the Village Hall (2001)
Presentation / Conference
People like me—Encouraging girls to see themselves in STEM careers (2023)
OpenSTEM Africa: Strengthening science education in Ghana (2020)
ICT Changes Everything! But Who Changes ICT? (2018)
Entering STEM in later life: examining the motivations of adult women studying computing (2018)
Distance travelled: supporting women returning to STEM careers (2012)
Changing discourses in women and science policy: responding to austerity in gender and SET (2012)
Returning to SET: reflections on an online module (2011)
Second Life, second chance: using virtual worlds to supportwomen returning to SET (2011)
“I should be so lucky”: women returners narratives of transition between family and work (2010)
Part time working as a gendered sub-culture in SET: A cross cultural study (2009)
Articulating Work Life Balance: Perspectives of Women Returners to STEM (2008)
Empowering women to return to their SET careers (2008)
Re/constructing engineering and technology careers: support for women returners in the UK (2007)
Women IT Technicians: moving through the glass partition (2005)
Staying the course: retention and participation in on-line learning in Singapore and the UK (2002)
