Frances Bell’s Blog

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Louise Makin started this session with her story of career development in high technology businesses, working in large organisations to her current position as CEO of BTG plc, that develops novel pharmaceuticals and medical technologies.� She spoke of the challenge of leading groups of technologists, and how to get the best out of them, reconciling [...]

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Beryl and I were a little late for the start of the Business Leadership for Women in� Technology Forum (see details of speakers), so we missed Val Singh’s talk but we did hear an excellent talk from Avivah Wittenberg-Cox from Diafora.� Avivah argued strongly for the argument for businesses to adapt to benefit from women [...]

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After the Gender Work and Organisation Conference, on June 30th 2007, we held an inaugural research workshop, KAN (Know and Network): Women in IT Research into Social Networking, where Professor Mike Thelwall spoke about Social Network Analysis.� Mike gave us a fascinating talk (see slides), followed by a discussion where we explored how social network [...]

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We had a good time at the GWO COnference in Keele last week.I learned such a lot about a broad range of gender issues and theories, and heard some wonderful speakers.
As well as the conference, GWO has a journal. This edition could be very relevant to Women in IT.
Special Issue of Gender, Work & Organization [...]

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Picked this up via JISC Emerge’s del.icio.us Like all slide shows, it’s difficult to ‘get it all’ if you weren’t there but worth watching nevertheless. So go on

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