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Clem Herman

Clem Herman

Emeritus Professor

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computing-and-communications

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

 

Latest publications

Displaying 10 of 57 publications

  • Sondhi, G., Raghuram, P. and Herman, C., 2025, ‘Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector’, Global Networks, 25(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/105119/.
  • Tompkins, Z., Herman, C. and Ramage, M., 2024, ‘Perspectives of Distance Learning Students on How to Transform Their Computing Curriculum: “Is There Anything to Be Decolonised?"’, Education Sciences, 14(2), https://oro.open.ac.uk/95780/.
  • Herman, C., Kendall-Nicholas, J. and Sadler, W., 2023, ‘People like me—Encouraging girls to see themselves in STEM careers’, in WOMEN IN PHYSICS: 7th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, 11-16 Jul 2021, Online., https://oro.open.ac.uk/95513/.
  • Herman, C., 2021, ‘Women in Computing Higher Education: Students, Educators and Researchers’, in Arnold, Gillian; Dee, Hannah; Herman, Clem; Moore, Sharon; Palmer, Andrea and Shah, Shilpa eds. Women in Tech: A practical guide to increasing gender diversity and inclusion. Swindon: BCS Publications, pp. 48–68., https://oro.open.ac.uk/78331/.
  • Murphy, K., Cullen, J., Addae-Kyeremeh, E., Stutchbury, K., Velasco, M., Davies, S., Ansine, J., Herman, C., Biard, O. and Mallet, J., 2020, ‘OpenSTEM Africa: Strengthening science education in Ghana’, in The 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference: Informing Student Success – From Scholarship to Practice, 29-30 Apr 2020, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK., https://oro.open.ac.uk/102323/.
  • Donelan, H., Herman, C., Hughes, J., Jefferis, H. and Thomas, E., 2019, ‘Career change or career progression? Motivations of women studying computing as adult learners’, International Journal of Gender Science and Technology, 11(3), pp. 466–489., https://oro.open.ac.uk/70870/.
  • Herman, C. and Butler, D., 2019, ‘[Editorial] Innovations in STEM distance education’, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 34(1), pp. 1–5., https://oro.open.ac.uk/58784/.
  • Herman, C., Gracia, R., MacNiven, L., Clark, B. and Doyle, G., 2019, ‘Using a Blended Learning Approach to support Women returning to STEM’, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 34(1), pp. 40–60., https://oro.open.ac.uk/57501/.
  • Sondhi, G., Raghuram, P., Herman, C. and Ruiz-Ben, E., 2019, ‘Skilled Migration and IT Sector: A Gendered Analysis’, in Rajan, S. Irudaya ed. India Migration Report 2018: Migrants in Europe. New Delhi: Routledge., https://oro.open.ac.uk/56751/.
  • Corneliussen, H. G., Herman, C. and Gajjala, R., 2018, ‘ICT Changes Everything! But Who Changes ICT? In: 13th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC13 2018, 19-21 Sep 2018, Poznan, Poland’, https://oro.open.ac.uk/56627/.
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