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Gender Research as Knowledge Resource in Technology and Engineering Professor Lena Trojer

Gender Research as Knowledge Resource in Technology and Engineering Professor Lena Trojer Dr. Pirjo Elovaara BS c Kerstin Gustavsson PhD student Rebecka Molin Research Division of Technoscience Studies, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. Gender Research in Technology and Engineering.

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Gender Research as Knowledge Resource in Technology and Engineering Professor Lena Trojer

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  1. Gender Research as Knowledge Resource in Technology and Engineering Professor Lena Trojer Dr. Pirjo Elovaara BS c Kerstin Gustavsson PhD student Rebecka Molin Research Division of Technoscience Studies, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

  2. Gender Research in Technology and Engineering from the practice of counting heads (how many women) to foster and advance understandings and practices of knowledge production

  3. Gender equality • quantitative goals, • which hopefully lead to qualitative impacts • Gender research • qualitative goals, • which hopefully lead to quantitative impacts • Gender equality and gender research is NOT the same BUT equally important. • The two main “study objects” of gender research • women / men / gender / gender- and power relations • knowledge processes of science; its content of theories • and methods

  4. Gender Research within Engineering Science links to Triple Helix concept Co-evolving process including Industry, Government and Academia necessary conditions Mode 2 concept some characteristics context of application trans-disciplinarity much greater diversity of sites of knowledge production / research highly reflexive / accountability novel forms of quality control context of implication compare Mode 1 some characteristics disciplinarity internally-driven taxonomy of disciplines neutrality / objectivity /scientific discovery (god-trick) hegemony of theoretical or experimental science autonomy of scientists and their host institutions, the universities sharp divide of basic and applied research

  5. Gender Research at a Technical Faculty is a resource to - expand the knowledge frames and practices for technology development in increasingly complex realities - open up preferential rights of interpretation in selections of standards, which always are reality producing activities - develop epistemological infrastructures relevant to a society heavily dependent on research and technology - establish new arenas for developing understandings of relations between research, political sector and industry - develop driving forces for inter- and trans disciplinary constellations to strengthen Triple Helix processes including Industry, Government and Academia by - emphasising the importance of power relations and their impacts, including understanding of gender structures - process-oriented development through a broader understanding of transformation practices - enforcement and integration of situated knowledge and technology development

  6. Case Karlshamn Developing a new campus for a technical university in a Triple helix context NetPort.Karlshamn started 2000 NetPort Science Park established 2009 BTH, campus Karlshamn started 2000 Media technology Bachelor Programs 2010 Digital Visual Production; Digital Audio Production; Digitala Game; Web Development plus Introductory Year //digitalamedier.bth.se : total 263 on campus students PhD programs including profile areas of ICT4D, Design for Digital Media, Gender & ICT, Logistics and Computer Science

  7. 3 profil areas Design for Digital Media media technology, social media, digital game Feminist Technoscience epistemologicalinfrastructure, e-gov., computer science, digital media, innovationsystem, ICT4D ICT4D e-learning, datamining Examples of externalprojects * X-ovation, Karlshamn´smunicaplity * i-farming, Uganda (SPIDER) * Women’s Digital Baskets, Rwanda (SPIDER) * Genis Lab (EU konsortium) * Innovative clusters closing the gap between University and Society in East Africa. (Sida) * Developmentof Innovation systems and Clusters development (Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, Bolivia / Sida, VINNOVA) SICD/ Scandinavian Institute for Competitiveness and Development (Sida, VINNOVA)

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