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LSE Learning Technology and Innovation are presenting an insightful and provocative panel about the role of education in enhancing women in technology, chaired
by Dr Ellen Helsper and featuring a variety of women from across the education sector. We will be holding the panel on Wednesday 20th May at 3pm here at the LSE. We will also be streaming the panel live on our YouTube channel.
Cheers
Peter
‘The role of education in encouraging women to work in technology’
We are delighted to announce that following the success of our NetworkED
student entrepreneur panel discussion we will be holding a ‘women in technology’ panel discussion on Wednesday
20th May at 3pm
in R01. Guests are also very welcome to attend and can book a place by emailing [log in to unmask]
For those that cannot attend the discussion will be recorded and livestreamed onto this blog.
Read about the panel members below
Panel Chair, Dr Ellen Helsper is
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor in the [log in to unmask]" target="_blank" title="Dr Ellen Helsper">Media
and Communications Department at the LSE. Her current research interests include digital inclusion and literacy; everyday production and consumption of digital media, mediated interpersonal communication; and quantitative and qualitative methodological
developments in media research.
The three main research projects she is involved in at the moment are the From
Digital Skills to Tangible Outcomes Project, longitudinal
World Internet Project, a
European Commission Project in relation to Online Advertising and Children, and the EU
Kids Online project. Ellen holds Visiting Scholar positions at NYU Steinhardt’s department of Media, Culture and Communications, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and the University of Twente’s Media, Communication and
Organisation Department.
Dr. Julia Davies works
in The School of Education at The University of Sheffield where
she is also the academic lead for Technology Enhanced Learning in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Julia’s research focuses on the intersections between literacy, language, technology and learning. Taking a broad view of literacy her work has included studies
of people’s uses of social media, the ways in which technology affects their view of themselves and the world they live in, and the implications of these things for education.
Professor Cornelia Boldyreff PhD,
FBCS, FHEA, Visiting
Professor, University of Greenwich
Professor Cornelia Boldyreff lives in Greenwich and is a Visiting Professor and part-time lecturer at the University of Greenwich in the Department of Computing & Information Systems. She was previously
the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) at the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering at the University of East London from 2009 – February 2013.
Cornelia gained her PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Durham where she worked from 1992; she was a Reader in the Computer Science Department when she left. In 2004 she moved to
the University of Lincoln to become the first Professor of Software Engineering at the university, where she co-founded and directed the Centre for Research in Open Source Software.
She has over 25 years’ experience in software engineering research and has published extensively on her research in the field. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a founding committee
member of the BCSWomen Specialist Group, a committee member of theBCS e-Learning Specialist Group, and chair of the BCS Open Source Specialist Group. She has been actively campaigning for more women in STEM throughout her career.
Together with Miriam Joy Morris and Yasmine Arafa, she founded the start-up, ebartex Ltd, and together they are developing
a new digital bartering currency, ebarts.
Dr Sue Black is
an award-winning computer scientist, radical thinker and passionate social entrepreneur who excels at bringing people together to solve complex issues. She’s a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at University
College London, an associate at DSRPTN an all female technology and digital consultancy, and a mentor at Google campus for mums. Sue is a champion for women in computing, and founder of BCSWomen and #techmums, a social enterprise which aims to empower
mums and their families through technology. Sue is well known for her successful online and offline campaigning and activism around digital social inclusion and Saving Bletchley Park. Sue is a frequent public speaker, a social media-holic, mum of four and
soon to be grandmother.
Twitter: @Dr_Black Web: www.sueblack.co.uk Blog: blackse.wordpress.com
Dr Ka¶ka Porayska-Pomsta is
a Reader in Adaptive Technologies for Learning and an RCUK Academic Fellow at the University
College London Institute of Education, London Knowledge Lab. She holds a Joint Honours Masters in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, both from the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on developing
adaptive interactive environments for learning and communication that are underpinned with user and context modelling capabilities, especially in relation to users’ affective and motivational states. She has close to 15 years of working with users, including
with children and adults with and without special needs, using participatory design methods and of developing intelligent technologies for real world use. She has also first-hand experience of using knowledge elicitation methods, of working with practitioners on
finding the best ways in which to embed the new technologies in the existing educational practices and in identifying the added value of digital intelligent technologies in supporting learning in different contexts with diverse user populations. In her research
and practice, Ka¶ka’s key focus is to strike a balance between the needs of learners and pracitioners in real educational contexts and the design and engineering considerations related to creating and deploying Intelligent Learning Environments.
Peter Bryant
Head of Learning Technology and Innovation
London School of Economics and Political Science
ALD LG - Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE
Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6008
Twitter: @peterbryantHE
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