Professor Judy Wajcman

Judy Wajcman is Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Until 2022, she held the Anthony Giddens Chair in Sociology. She is a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads the Women in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence research project. She is a member of the British Academy, a visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a member of the AI 100 Standing Committee at Stanford University. Prior to joining LSE in 2009, she was the Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Professor Wajcman's scholarly interests encompass the sociology of work and employment, science and technology studies, gender theory, temporality, and organisational analysis. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. She has lifetime achievement awards from the American Sociological Association, the Oxford Internet Institute, the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva. She has held numerous visiting fellowships, including the Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. For the 2025-2026 academic year she will be a Fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.