Women in Digital Work, 22 May 2019
Published: 19 May 2019
Organised by the the Social and Digital Change Group at the University of Glasgow, the seminar explores academic and practitioner perspectives of the challenges that face women in work. The event is free, but please book via eventbrite. It takes place on 22 May 2019, 2-4pm in Room 706, Adam Smith Building.
Gabriele Griffin
Professor of Gender Research, Uppsala University
Gabriele Griffin is professor in the Centre for Gender Research. Her current research focuses on women's cultural production, non-normative identities, higher education and disciplinization, and diasporic cultures. From 2017 she is Coordinator of the Nordforsk-funded Nordic Centre of Excellence NORDWIT in which she also researches on gender and the digital humanities. She also coordinates the SIDA-funded capacity-building project on gender, with the partners Eduardo Montelane University, Mozambique and Free State University, South Africa.
Rachel Hamada
Co-founder and director of online investigative journalism outlet The Ferret
Rachel Hamada is a co-founder and director of online investigative journalism outlet The Ferret. She is currently working also for another online venture, the Bureau Local, which applies a highly innovative model of bottom-up journalism in order to allow stories to emerge more organically. The Bureau Local is funded by Google and has over 900 members. Rachel has also been involved in feminist news networks and running women-only workshops to counter the male-dominated atmosphere of journalism.
Katherine Rodgers
The Digital Humanities Institute, The University of Sheffield
Katherine has 20 years’ experience of software development and has worked, as a Research Software Engineer, at the University of Sheffield's Digital Humanities Institute for for 13 years, designing and developing software for digital humanities research projects. She has worked on more than twenty research projects and was also a Technical Reviewer for the AHRC for 8 years. She taught on the Digital Humanities pathway for the University’s MA Public Humanities. Projects she has led technical development on include Bess of Hardwick’s Letters, Connected Histories, Tudor Chamber Books, Jaina Prosopography, and the Borthwick Cause Papers.
First published: 19 May 2019
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