Speakers
Professor Louise Ackers is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for research in the arts humanities and social sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge and Director of the European Law and Policy Research Group at the University of Liverpool. Her recent work has focused on researcher careers with an emphasis on scientific mobility and internationalization. Her most recent book 'Moving People and Knowledge' (2008, Edward Elgar) discusses the processes of scientific mobility drawing on an empirical study of Bulgarian and Polish scientists working in (or returning from) the UK and Germany. She also directed a study on doctoral mobility in the social sciences (NOIRFACE, 2008) and is currently completing work on a second impact assessment of the European Commission's Marie Curie Programme. Her current work focuses on the relationship between mobilities and internationalization. This study is designed to clarify the relationships that exist between different forms of contemporary mobilities and notions of internationalization and excellence to avoid the implementation of narrow and potentially discriminatory metrics. She is a member of the International Network and the Training and Skills Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council.
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Maryann Feldman is the S.K. Heninger Distinguished Chair in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Her research and teaching interests focus on the areas of innovation, the commercialization of academic research and the factors that promote technological change and economic growth. A large part of Dr. Feldman's work concerns the geography of innovation – investigating the reasons why innovation clusters spatially and the mechanisms that support and sustain industrial clusters. Previously, Dr. Feldman held the Miller Distinguished Chair in Higher Education at the University of Georgia (2006-2008) and the Jeffery S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Business Economics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (2002-2006). She started her career at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Feldman has served on the Advisory Panel for the U.S. National Science Foundation's Program on Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology.
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Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Joan Ferrini-Mundy is the assistant director of the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR).
Ferrini-Mundy's past work has included serving as director of the Division of Science and Mathematics Education at Michigan State University from 1999-2006, serving as a visiting scientist in NSF's Teacher Enhancement Program from 1989-1991, and working as director of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board and associate executive director of the Center for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education at the National Research Council from 1995-1999.
the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and completed a term as a member of the board of governors of the Mathematical Association of America in 2006. In 2007-2008, representing NSF, she served as an ex officio member of the President's National Mathematics Advisory Panel, and co-chaired the Instructional Practices Task Group.
She was the co-lead principal investigator for the multi-million dollar PROM/SE project, Promoting Rigorous Outcomes in Mathematics and Science Education before coming to NSF in 2007 as division director for the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. Ferrini-Mundy came to NSF from Michigan State University where she was a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education.
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Mary Frank Fox
Mary Frank Fox is Advance Professor in the School of Public Policy, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology, at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Fox's research focuses upon gender, science, and academia. Her research has introduced and established ways in which the participation and performance of academic and scientific women and men reflect and are affected by the social and organizational features of the places in which they are educated and work. She has addressed these complex processes in a range of research encompassing education and educational programs, collaborative practices, salary rewards, publication productivity, social attributions and expectations, and academic careers. Her work appears in over 50 different scholarly and scientific journals, books, and collections.
Her current research projects include a study of The Transmission Zone Between Consumers and Producers of Knowledge About Women in Science and Engineering, supported by NSF; continuing research on faculty advancement emanating from the NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award to Georgia Tech, for which she was Co-PI; a study of faculty careers in computing, supported by NSF through the National Center for Women and Information Technology; and the research component of the Women's International Engineering Research Summit (WIRES), supported by NSF, for which she is Co-PI.
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Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.
Professor Freeman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and is currently serving as a Member of the AAAS Initiative for Science and Technology. Freeman served on the study on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the U.S. United States. He also served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists.
He received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.
His recent publications include: Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization (2004), Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century (2005), America Works: The Exceptional Labor Market (2007), What Workers Want (2007 2nd edition), What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo American World (2007), International Differences in the Business Practices & Productivity of Firms (2009), Science and Engineering Careers in the United States (2009), Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden (2010), and Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options (2010). His forthcoming IZA Prize book is Making Europe Work: IZA Labor Economics Series (2010).
