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Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Molly King, Isabella Cingolini,. 2024. “” Scientometrics Vol 129(1), pages 147-179.
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Contributing author, Elsevier Report (2022) “The researcher journey through a gender lens: An examination of research participation, career progression and perceptions across the globe”. . (Chapter 4).
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Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2018. “A Tie is a Tie? Gender and Network Positioning in Life Science Inventor Collaboration” Research Policy. 47; pages 511-526.
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Plank-Bazinet, Jennifer L., Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Sara K.B. Cassidy, Rosemarie Filart, Terri L. Cornelison, Lisa Begg, and Janine Austin Clayton. "Programmatic Efforts at the National Institutes of Health to Promote and Support the Careers of Women in Biomedical Science" Academic Medicine. Vol. 91, No. 8 / (Forthcoming, August 2016).
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Mary Frank Fox, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, and Marcela Linkova. 2016. "Gender, (In)Equity, and the Scientific Workforce." In Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by U. Felt, R. Fourche, C. Miller, and L. Smith-Doerr. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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Tinkler, Justine E., Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Manwai C. Ku, and Andrea Davies. 2015. “” Social Science Research 51: 1-16.
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Powell, Walter W., Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Bunker Whittington. Spring 2012. “Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences.” The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, edited by John Padgett and Walter W. Powell. Princeton University Press.
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Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2011. “Mothers of Invention?: Gender, Motherhood, and New Dimensions of Productivity in the Science Profession.” Work and Occupations. 38(3) 417-456.
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Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2009.“Patterns of Male and Female Dissemination in Public and Private Science”. The New Market for Scientists and Engineers: The Science and Engineering Workforce in the Era of Globalization, edited by Richard B. Freeman and Daniel F. Goroff. (University of Chicago Press.
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Whittington, Kjersten Bunker, Jason Owen-Smith, and Walter W. Powell. 2009. “Networks, Propinquity and Innovation in Technological Communities.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 54:90-122.
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Whittington, Kjersten Bunker and Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2008. “Women Inventors in Context: Disparities in Patenting across Academia and Industry”. Gender & Society 22(2):194-218
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Whittington, Kjersten Bunker and Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2005. “Women and Commercial Science: Women’s Patenting in the Life Sciences” Journal of Technology Transfer: Special Issue on Women and Science, 30(November): 355-370.
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Porter, Kelley, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, and Walter W. Powell. 2005. “The Institutional Embeddedness of High-Tech Regions: Relational Foundations of the Boston Biotechnology Community.” Clusters, Networks, and Innovation, edited by Stefano Breschi and Franco Malerba, Oxford University Press. Pages 261-296.
Kjersten Bunker Whittington
Professor of Sociology
Chair
Email | 503-517-7628
Science and technology, gender, work and organizations, social networks.
BS 1999 North Carolina State University.
MA 2001, PhD 2007 Stanford University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2007–.
I am a sociologist whose research and teaching interests center on the topics of gender and work, scientific careers and science-based organizations, science policy (particularly with respect to women’s health research), networks and social structure, and the knowledge economy. My ongoing research in these areas addresses gender disparities in research productivity – patenting and publishing - across academic and industrial sectors, gender and motherhood dynamics among science professionals, and gendered decision-making in venture capital contexts, among other topics. Another line of research focuses on formal organizations, regional dynamics, and the science economy. With collaborators, I am engaged in research that examines the influence of inter-organizational network structure on firm-level innovative output, and the determinants of successful regional clustering in the biotechnology industry. A third area of research focuses on science policy related to the use of sex and gender based measures in health-based research, and race and technology in the genomic age.
I teach courses in our department that focus on the science, technology and social difference, gender, work, and organizations, networks methodology and network theory, our introductory core, and sociological methodology and empirical approaches.