Professor Clem Herman

Professor of Gender and Technology

Open University's Athena SWAN champion and chair of university Gender Equality Steering Group. Past roles include Director of eSTEeM and Academic Lead for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. As part of the School of Computing and Communications I work on projects to research and increase the participation of women in IT including leading the Open University's widening participation work with the Institute of Coding.

Publications

Herman, Clem, (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.

Donelan, Helen, Herman, Clem, Hughes, Janet, Jefferis, Helen and Thomas, Elaine(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.

Herman, Clem and Butler, Diane (2019). [Editorial] Innovations in STEM distance education. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 34(1) pp. 1–5.

Herman, Clem, Donelan, Helen, Jefferis, Helen and Hughes, Janet(2018). Entering STEM in later life: examining the motivations of adult women studying computing. In: 4th Biennial Network Gender and STEM Conference: Reimagining Who Does STEM and Why, 31 Jul - 2 Aug 2018, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.

Herman, Clem, Kendall-Nicholas, Jane and Sadler, Wendy (2018). People Like Me Evaluation Report. The WISE Campaign, Leeds.

Herman, Clem, Gracia, Rosaria, MacNiven, Lesley,Clark, Bernie and Doyle, Geraldine(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.

Herman, Clem and Kirkup, Gill (2018). Combining feminist pedagogy and transactional distance to create gender-sensitive technology-enhanced learning. In: Aneja, Anu ed. Gender and Distance Education: Indian and International Contexts. Routledge India, pp. 10–29.

Sondhi, Gunjan , Raghuram, Parvati , Herman, Clem and Ruiz-Ben, Esther (2019). Skilled Migration and IT Sector: A Gendered Analysis. In: Rajan, S. Irudaya ed. India Migration Report 2018: Migrants in Europe. New Delhi: Routledge.

Corneliussen, Hilde G.,Herman, Clem and Gajjala, Radhika(2018). ICT Changes Everything! But Who Changes ICT? In: This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do? (Kreps, David; Ess, Charles; Louise, Leenen and Kai, Kimppa eds.), HCC13 2018. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer, Cham, pp. 250–257.

Herman, Clem and Hilliam, Rachel (2018). The Triple Whammy: Gendered Careers of Geographically Marginalised Academic STEM Women. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10(1) pp. 171–189.

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