Professor Eileen Green
Lead Academic and Research Consultant
Eileen Green joined the University of Teesside as Professor of Sociology in 1996. She was a founder member of the Centre for Social and Policy Research and has been Director since 1997 (http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/socialfutures/csprprofile.cfm ). Prior to this she was Reader in Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University, where she was Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies between 1988 and 1992 and Head of Sociology from 1994-6. Her research interests centre upon social in/exclusion and include work on: gender and ICT, gender, health and well being, and gender, work and leisure. Recent research includes directing action research projects on: health technologies for midlife women (ESRC/MRC), strategies for improving the health and well-being of Black and Minority Ethnic women (NISAA: SRB/ESF), young parenting and risk (SRB) and barriers to women’s progression in the labour market in the NE of England (ESF). Her most recent project involved being a partner on an international study of ‘The Role of Technology in the Production and Use of Health Information Systems’ (SSHRC), based at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Eileen has published widely on these and related issues. Her co-authored books include: Women’s Leisure, What Leisure? Macmillan 1990; Gendered by Design? Information Technology and Office Systems Taylor and Francis 1993; Women, Work and Computerization Elsevier 1994; Through the Wardrobe, Women, Identity and Their Relationship with Clothes Berg 2001; Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity, Routledge 2001; Youth, Risk and Leisure: Constructing Identities in Everyday Life, Palgrave 2004; and ‘Informing Gender: Health and Information Technology in Context, Palgrave, (in press).