Gill Kirkup

Gill Kirkup, Dr., B.A., B.Ed., M. Phil, Ph.D, is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK. She is also the Head of Research, Data and Policy at the UK Resources Centre for Women in Science Engineering and Technology 2008-2011, part-time secondment. Gill Kirkup has researched and written about gender and technology for more than twenty years. Her publications record is very long it includes three co-authored books and three co-edited books: over forty chapters in books and over 30 journal articles. The book she co-authored with Ruth Carter "Women in Engineering: A Good Place to Be?" Macmillan (1990) remains a foundational text on the work and lives of women engineers. Her work is also involved with understanding the operation of gender in distance education and the gendering of ICTs for learning. Since the 1980s this work has been done in collaboration with colleagues from a number of European countries, in particular Germany, Netherlands and Sweden. Gill Kirkup is also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, member of the Association of Learning Technologies, member of the Fawcett Society. Represented the Open University (UK) in Athena ( Advanced Thematic Network on Higher Education in Women’s Studies) 1999- 2009.

Publications

Online Participation; Shaping the Networks of Professional Women
Online Participation; Shaping the Networks of Professional Women
Helen Donelan, Clem Herman, Karen Kear, Gill Kirkup. © 2011. 10 pages.
Social interaction technologies present women with powerful tools to extend their network of professional contacts. This chapter considers the use of online networks by...
Online Participation: Shaping the Networks of Professional Women
Online Participation: Shaping the Networks of Professional Women
Helen Donelan, Clem Herman, Karen Kear, Gill Kirkup. © 2010. 11 pages.
Social interaction technologies present women with powerful tools to extend their network of professional contacts. This chapter considers the use of online networks by...
Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts
Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts
Shirley Booth, Sara Goodman, Gill Kirkup. © 2010. 350 pages.
Gender, equity, learning, and information technology can intersect to form a theoretical and abstract field of knowledge emanating from very real, concrete, lived experiences....
Gendered Knowledge Production in Universities in a Web 2.0 World
Gendered Knowledge Production in Universities in a Web 2.0 World
Gill Kirkup. © 2010. 13 pages.
This chapter examines the access women have had historically to engage in knowledge production as university scholars or students. It discusses the changing nature of knowledge...
Towards a Feminist Manifesto for e-Learning: Principles to Inform Practices*
Towards a Feminist Manifesto for e-Learning: Principles to Inform Practices*
Gill Kirkup, Sigrid Schmitz, Erna Kotkamp, Els Rommes, Aino-Maija Hiltunen. © 2010. 20 pages.
This chapter argues that the future development of European e-learning needs to be informed by gender theory, and feminist and other critical pedagogies. The authors explore four...
Supporting Student Blogging in Higher Education
Supporting Student Blogging in Higher Education
Lucinda Kerawalla, Shailey Minocha, Gill Kirkup, Gráinne Conole. © 2009. 16 pages.
With a variety of asynchronous communication and collaboration tools and environments such as Wikis, blogs, and forums, it can be increasingly difficult for educators to make...
Flying under the Radar: The Importance of Small Scale E-Learning Innovation within Large-Scale Institutional E-Learning Implementation
Flying under the Radar: The Importance of Small Scale E-Learning Innovation within Large-Scale Institutional E-Learning Implementation
Gill Kirkup. © 2009. 14 pages.
This chapter argues that e-learning innovation is best done in an environment that allows for small scale experimentation and development and that this can be made more difficult...