# Alison Adam

alison adam is a British researcher in the field of Science and Technology Studies and is particularly known for her work on gender in information systems and the history of forensic science. She is Professor Emerita of science, technology and society at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. == Career == Adam was a research fellow at Lancaster University, and a lecturer and senior lecturer in the Department of Computation at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. She was professor of information systems from 2003 to 2008, then professor of science, technology and society from 2008 to 2012 at the University of Salford, where she worked from 2000 until 2012, heading the Information Systems Institute in 2004–6 and then directing the Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre.