Maria Uden
Professor
Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social
Lulea University of Technology
Sweden
Biography
Maria Udén is Professor in Gender and Technology. She has a MSc in engineering from 1988 (mining, mineral processing and metallurgy) and her transdisciplinary PhD thesis Women technically speaking was published in 2000. Maria combines interdisciplinary research and development with working life studies, especially regarding women and gender in male-dominated occupations. A main interest is feminist approaches in the engineering sciences, another is gender and the development of the Arctic economy. The women's movement in the Arctic and globally, and activities relating to women and gender in the knowledge society are sources of inspiration. Maria's work relates to the theories and methodologies of the women's movements in the Nordic academia; influences from European social sciences and feminist philosophy, and North American feminist science and technology studies. Since 2002, Maria has been engaged in development of alternative solutions for communications and internet access for reindeer husbandry, primarily the DTN technology (Delay- and disruption Tolerant Networking).
Research Interest
Gender and Technology
Publications
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Kilu, R. H., Sanda, M.-A., & Udén, M. (2016). Investigating the Non-Gendered Recruitment Characteristics of Mining Firms in Ghana : The Role of Sociocultural, Psychosocial and Organizational Design Factors. Business and Management Quarterly Review, 7(3/4), 38–51. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-62857
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Udén, M., Andersson, M., & Jansson, A. (2015). Vård- och omsorgspersonal medverkar i teknikutveckling modell : vägen till en rimlig modell. Presented at the FALF- forum för arbetslivsforskning : Arbetslivets förhållanden och villkor- mellan kontinuitet och förändring 10/06/2015 - 12/06/2015. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-40131
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GabrovÅ¡ek, F., GraÅ¡iÄ, B., Božnar, M. Z., Udén, M., & Elwyn, D. (2014). Karst show caves : How DTN technology as used in space assists automatic environmental monitoring and tourist protection - experiment in Postojna cave. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 14(2), 443–457. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-443-2014
