A lecture at the Berrill Lecture Theatre, Open University, Milton Keynes – organized by the Open University and UKRC on 3rd November 2005

To launch the Open University’s new course: T160 Science, Engineering and Technology: A course for WomenReturners (http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C02T160 ) developed in partnership with the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET.

Dr Wendy Faulkner has been working on gender and technology issues for 15 years, and on industrial innovation. She teaches sociology of technology on the Edinburgh University post-graduate programme on Science and Technology Studies. Wendy Faulkner’s talk is based on an ESRC funded ethnographic study entitled: Genders in/of Engineering.

Further details of the research can be found athttp://www.ssu.sps.ed.ac.uk/research/faulkner/faulkner_g%2Be_project.html

You can join the event in one of two ways:

(a) Come along in person to the Berrill Lecture Theatre, at the Open University in Milton Keynes - tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available. If you would like to attend, please email Donna Deacon (d.deacon@open.ac.uk) or phone 01908 654138

(b) Watch the webcast from 2pm at http://stadium.open.ac.uk/berrill and
join in the question and answer session by emailing your question to tech-set-enquiries@open.ac.uk