Judy Wajcman

Judy Wajcman is a British academic who has made significant contributions to the field of sociology. She currently holds the position of Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a role she has occupied since 2009. Prior to this, she was a professor of sociology at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences. Her academic career has been marked by several notable appointments, including being the first woman to hold the Norman Laski Research Fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1978 to 1980.

Wajcman's research interests are diverse and interdisciplinary, spanning the sociology of work, science and technology studies, gender theory, and organizational analysis. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute and a visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her work has gained international recognition, with translations of her writings available in numerous languages, including French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, and Spanish. In 1997, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a testament to her standing as a leading scholar in her field.