Publications

2014

Gorbacheva, E., Craig, A., Beekhuyzen, J. & Coldwell-Neilson, J. (2014) ICT Interventions for Girls: Factors Influencing ICT Career Intentions, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, vol 18 (3) Click here for paper

Gorbacheva, E., Beekhuyzen, J., Craig, A. & Coldwell-Neilson, J. (2014) Longitudinal Evaluation of ICT Intervention Programs for Girls, Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 3-5 Dec, Auckland, New Zealand Click here for paper

Coldwell-Neilson, J., Gorbacheva, E., Craig, A. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2014) The Impact of IT Intervention Programs for Girls, GenderIT conference, Germany, 7-9 May Click here for paper

2013

Craig, A., Coldwell-Neilson, J. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2013) Are IT Interventions For Girls A Special Case? ACM Computer Science Education Conference (CSE) Colorado, US, 6-9 March Click here for paper

Gorbacheva, E., Beekhuyzen, J., Craig, A. & Coldwell-Neilson, J. (2013) ICT Interventions for Schoolgirls Do Matter! Understanding the Factors Influencing ICT Career Intentions through Partial Least Squares Analysis. Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 4-6 Dec Click here for paper

2012

Clayton, K., Beekhuyzen, J. & Nielsen, S. (2012) Now I know what ICT can do for me! Special issue on Women and IT. Increasing the representation of women in information and communication technology: Research on Intervention Programs, Information Systems Journal. Blackwell Publishing. Link

Beekhuyzen, J., Craig, A. & Coldwell-Neilson, J. (2012) Interesting, fun funny: Understanding the value of ICT interventions for girlsNZ_OZWIT Celebration, 10-11 October, Christchurch, New Zealand

2011

Gender and an IT Global Workforce - iTunes U Lecture by Beekhuyzen, J., Potter, L., von Hellens, L. & Nielsen, S. Link

2010

Dr Kaylene Clayton - awarded the Best Dissertation by the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS)

2009

Nielsen, S. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2009) Narratives of identity formation: Tech Girls are Chic (not just Geek), Australasian Women in Information Technology (OZWIT), Melbourne, Australia, Monash University, 1 December

Clayton, K., von Hellens, L. & Nielsen, S. (2009) Gender Stereotypes Prevail in ICT; a Research Review, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMIS Conference, Limerick, Ireland, May 28–30

2008

Beekhuyzen, J. & Dorries, R. (2008) Tech girls are chic, not just geek!, Brisbane, Australia. Self-published. Website

Beekhuyzen, J., Puikkonen, A., Hakkila, J. & Venta, L. (2008) Playing, Performing, Reporting: A Case Study of Mobile Minimovies Composed by Teenage Girls, Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OZCHI), Cairns, Australia, 10-12 December

Puikkonen, A., Beekhuyzen, J. & Hakkila, J. (2008) Techgirls' mobile minimovies - A case study of girls and mobile technology, Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Sydney, Australia 19-22 May Click here for paper

2007

von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S., Clayton, K. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2007) Conceptualising Gender and IT: Australians Taking Action in Germany, Proceedings of QualIT2007 - Qualitative Research in IT & IT in Qualitative Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 19-20 November

Clayton, K. (2007) The influence of metropolitan Brisbane middle-school ICT experiences on girls’ ICT study and career choices. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

2006

Nielsen, S. & von Hellens, L. (2006) The Social Construction of Australian Women in IT in Trauth, in Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, E. Trauth (Ed). Idea Group Publishing, Pennsylvania, USA

Beekhuyzen, J., Clayton, K. & von Hellens, L. (2006) Mentoring Australian Girls in IT, in Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, E. Trauth (Ed). Idea Group Publishing, Pennsylvania, USA

Clayton. K. (2006) Attitudes towards ICTs in Australian high schools, Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, E. Trauth (Ed). Idea Group Publishing, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 256-268. 

Beekhyzen, J., Nielsen, S. & von Hellens, L. (2006) Making IT Fit: Facing and changing reality in Queensland, Proceedings of the AusWIT conference - Australian Women in IT Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 4-5 December

Clayton, K. (2006) Showing Girls IT's Amazing, Proceedings of the AusWIT conference, Adelaide, Australia, 4-5 Decemberr

Hakkila, J. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2006) Using mobile communication technologies in student mentoring: A case study, in HCI Encyclopaedia, C. Ghaoui (Ed). IdeaGroup Publishing, Pennsylvania, USA

Beekhuyzen, J. & Bernhardt, S. (2006) Employment Sharing for IT Micro and Small Business, in IT Workers: Human Capital Issues in a Knowledge-Based Environment, F. Niedermann (Ed). Information Age Publishing, USA, pp 441-460

2005

von Hellens, L., Beekhuyzen, J., & Nielsen S. (2005) Thought and Action: The WinIT perspective - Strategies for increasing female participation in IT. Women, Work and IT Forum: Contemporary perspectives on the reproduction of gender inequalities in employment, hosted by the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, June 23-24

Clayton, K. (2005) Engaging our future ICT professionals: What is the missing piece of the puzzle?, Women, Work and IT Forum: Contemporary perspectives on the reproduction of gender inequalities in employment, hosted by the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, June 23-24

2004

Nielsen, S.H., von Hellens, L. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2004). Challenge or Chaos? Discourse Analysis of Women's Perceptions of the Culture of Change in the IT Industry. Journal of Information Technology Education, Vol 1, pp715-727 - Awarded Best Paper from InSITE04 - link to full paper

Nielsen, S.H., von Hellens, L. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2004). The Discursive Divide: Women in the IT Industry, Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, Turku, Finland, June 14-17

Nielsen, S.H., von Hellens, L. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2004). Challenge or Chaos? Discourse Analysis of Women's Perceptions of the Culture of Change in the IT Industry. Proceedings of the InSITE: Informing Science + IT Education Joint Conference (http://InSITE.nu). Rockhampton, Australia. June 25-28, 2004 - Awarded Best Paper - also to be published in JITE 2005

von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. H. and Beekhuyzen, J. P. (2004) An exploration of the dualisms in the female perceptions of IT work. Journal of Information Technology Education, Vol 3, pp103-116 - Awarded Best Paper from InSITE03

Häkkilä, J., Beekhuyzen, J. & von Hellens, L. (2004) Integrating Mobile Communication in a Student Mentoring Program, Proceedings of IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing, Lisbon, Portugal, March 23-26

Greenhill, A., Esteves, J. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2004) An Analysis of Research Methods and Diversity in IS Research in Australia: A Gender Perspective, Proceedings of QualIT 2004, Brisbane, Australia, 24-26 November

Beekhuyzen, J. & Clayton, K. (2004) ICT Career Perceptions: Not So Geeky?!?, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research on Women in IT, Kuala Lumpar, 28-30 July

Clayton, K. and Beekhuyzen, J. ( 2004) Engaging girls in ICTs: Mind the gap! Proceedings of the AusWIT conference, Hobart, Australia, 1-2 December

Clayton, K. (2004) Information Quality: the relationship to recruitment in pre-tertiary IT education, Proceedings of the Informing Science + IT Education Joint Conference. Rockhampton, Australia. 25-28 June - Awarded Best Paper

Clayton, K. (2004). The shrinking IT pipeline: Should it be dismantled?, Proceedings of the Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communications Conference. Karlstad, Sweden. 27 June - 1 July

Beekhuyzen, J., Nielsen, J.L. & Jones, A. (2004) Adventures in IT: Three Australian Stories, Proceedings of the AusWIT conference, Hobart, Australia, 1-2 December

Greenhill, A., Esteves, J. & Beekhuyzen, J. (2004) An Analysis of Research Methods and Diversity in IS Research in Australia: A Gender Perspective, Proceedings of QualIT 2004, Brisbane, Australia, 24-26 November

2003

von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. and Beekhuyzen, J. (2003) Women working in the IT industry: Challenges for the new millennium. International Business and Economics Research Journal, Vol 1, No11, November - Awarded Best Paper from EABR03

Beekhuyzen, J., Nielsen, S.H. and von Hellens, L. (2003) A large discourse, Australian Qualitative Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 17-19 

von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S.N. and Beekhuyzen, J. (2003) An exploration of the dualisms in the female perceptions of IT work. Proceedings of Informing Science and IT Education Conference, Pori, Finland, June 25-27 - Awarded Best Paper - also to be published in JITE 2004

von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. and Beekhuyzen, J. (2003) Women working in the IT industry: Challenges for the new millennium. European Applied Business Research Conference, Venice, Italy, June 9 -13 - Awarded Best Paper - also to be published in IBER 2003

Trauth, E.M., Nielsen, S.H. and von Hellens, L.A. (2003) Explaining the IT gender gap: Australian stories for the new millennium. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2003: 7-20.(NOTE: this paper is a revised and updated version of the ACIS 2000 paper - reprinted)

Beekhuyzen, J., Nielsen, S.N. and von Hellens, L.(2003) Challenging the dualisms in the female perceptions of IT work. Australian Journal of Information Systems, Melbourne, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2003: 105-114 - Awarded Best Paperfrom AusWIT03.

Beekhuyzen, J., Nielsen, S.N. and von Hellens, L. (2003) Challenging the dualisms in the female perceptions of IT work. Proceedings of AusWIT03: Australian conference on Women in IT, Hobart,Tasmania, February 19-20 - Awarded Best Paper - also to be published in AJIS 2003

Nielsen, S., von Hellens, L. and Beekhuyzen, J. and Trauth, E. (2003) Women talking about IT work: Duality or dualism? Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR/MIS Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 17-194

Clayton, K. (2003) Perceptions of I.T. and their influence on pre-tertiary students: An Australian study of gender and recruitment issues, Honours dissertation, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, 2003  (link to thesis) 

2001

von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. & Trauth, E. (2001) Breaking and Entering the Male Domain. Women In the IT Industry. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR Conference, San Diego, USA, April 2001

von Hellens, L. & Nielsen, S. (2001) Australian Women in IT. Communications of the ACM, 44(7): 46-52 - ITPA Profile

Nielsen, S., von Hellens, L. & Wong, S. (2001) The Male IT Domain: You’ve Got To Be In It To WinIT! Panel discussion paper, Women: The Changing Face of IT. Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2001), Coffs Harbour, Australia, December 2001 - Nominated for Best Paper Award

2000

von Hellens, L.A., Pringle, R., Nielsen, S.H. & Greenhill, A. (2000) People, Business and IT Skills: The Perspective of Women in the IT Industry. Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGCPR Conference, Chicago, USA, April 2000

Orr, J. & von Hellens, L. Skill Requirements of IT&T Professionals and Graduates: An Australian Study. Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel Research Conference, Chicago, USA, April 2000: 167-170

von Hellens, L., Van Slyke, C. & Kittner, M. (2000) A Comparison of Australian and American Students’ Perceptions of IT Job Skills. Proceedings of the 2000 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, Anchorage, USA, May 2000

Pringle, R., Nielsen, S., von Hellens, L., Greenhill, A. & Parfitt, L. (2000) Net Gains: Success Strategies of Professional Women in Information Technology. Proceedings of the 7th IFIP Conference on Women, Work and Computerization, Vancouver, Canada, June 2000

Wong, S., von Hellens, L. & Orr, J. (2000) Non-technical Skills and Personal Attributes: The Soft Skills Matter Most. Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Women in Computing Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, 21-22 July 2000: 27-33

Nielsen, S., von Hellens, L. & Wong, S. (2000) The Women in Information Technology Project: Uncovering the Pride and Prejudices. Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Women in Computing Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, 21-22 July 2000: 45-55

Trauth, E., Nielsen, S.H. & von Hellens, L.A. (2000) Explaining the IT Gender Gap: Australian Stories. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Brisbane, Australia, December 2000 - Nominated for Best Paper

von Hellens, L.A., Wong, S. & Orr, J. (2000) IT/IS Skill Requirements: Perspectives from Industry. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Brisbane, Australia, December 2000

Nielsen, S., von Hellens, L. & Wong, S. (2000) The Game of Social Constructs: We’re Going to WinIT! Panel discussion paper, Addressing the IT Skills Crisis: Gender and the IT Profession. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2000), Brisbane, Australia, December 2000

Van Slyke, C., von Hellens, L., Elder, K. & Kittner, M. (2000) Comparing the importance of IT job skills in Australia and the United States. Proceedings of the 15th Annual IAIM Conference, Brisbane, December 2000

1999

Nielsen, S.H., von Hellens, L.A., Greenhill, A., Halloran, P. & Pringle, R. (1999) IT Degree Studies and Skills Development for Learning Organisations. Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGCPR Conference, New Orleans, USA, April 1999: 261-267 - Link to article

von Hellens, L.A., Nielsen, S.H., Greenhill, A. & Pringle, R. (1999) Development of IT/IS Skills for New Forms of Organisations: A Challenge for Educators? Proceedings of the Information Systems Research Seminar, Scandinavia 1999

Nielsen, S., von Hellens, L., Pringle, R. & Greenhill, A. (1999) Students’ Perceptions of Information Technology Careers. Conceptualising the Influence of Cultural and Gender Factors for IT Education. GATES (Greater Access to Technology Education and Science) Journal 5(1): 30-38

Nielsen, S. & von Hellens, L. (1999) IT Skills, Employment and Industry Trends. In Real Time. Computers, Change and Schooling, National Sample Study of the Information Technology Skills of Australian School Students, funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, November 1999: 232-236

Taylor, P., Nielsen, S. & von Hellens, L. (1999) IT Skills Definition. In Real Time. Computers, Change and Schooling, National Sample Study of the Information Technology Skills of Australian School Students, funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, November 1999: 237-244

Doyle, R. (1999) The USE Report. Researching The IT/ IS Skills Requirements. Unpublished manuscript, School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University

von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S., Doyle, R. & Greenhill, A. (1999) Bridging the IT Skills Gap. A Strategy to Improve the Recruitment and Success of IT Students. Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Wellington, New Zealand, December 1999: 1129-1143

1998

Nielsen, S.H., von Hellens, L.A., Greenhill, A. & Pringle, R. (1998) Conceptualising the Influence of Cultural and Gender Factors on Students’ Perception of IT Studies and Careers. Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR Conference, Boston, USA, March 1998: 86-95

Greenhill, A., von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. & Pringle, R. (1998) Students’ Perceptions of Information Technology Careers. Conceptualising the Influence of Cultural and Gender Factors in IT Education. Proceedings of the 5th Australasian Women in Computing Workshop, May 1998: 19-25

1997

von, Hellens, L.A., Nielsen, S.H., Greenhill, A. & Pringle, R. (1997) Gender and Cultural Influences in IT Education. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Brisbane, April 1997: 389-397

Nielsen, S.H., von Hellens, L.A., Greenhill, A. & Pringle, R. (1997) Collectivism and Connectivity: Culture and Gender in Information Technology Education. Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR Conference, San Francisco, USA, April 1997: 9-13

Greenhill, A., von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. & Pringle, R. (1997) Australian Women in IT Education: Multiple Meanings and Multiculturalism. Proceedings of the 6th IFIP Conference on Women, Work and Computerization, Bonn, Germany, May 1997: 387-397

Greenhill, A., von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. & Pringle, R. (1997) Collaborative Practices and Computer Games: Towards a New Perspective on the Participation of Women in IT Education. Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Women in Computing Workshop, Melbourne, July 1997: 57-62

1996

Greenhill, A., von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. & Pringle, R. (1996) Larrikin Cultures and Women in IT Education. Proceedings of the 19th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 1996: 13-28

Anthony, R. & Nielsen, S. (1996) Strategies for Improving Skills and Motivation in Communication Studies for Information Technology Students. Australian Communication Conference, Monash University, September 1996

Greenhill, A., von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. & Pringle, R. (1996) Asian Women in IT Education, an Australian Examination. Proceedings of the First Australian Conference on Computer Science Education, Sydney, July 1996: 171-176

Greenhill, A., von Hellens, L.A., Nielsen, S.H. & Pringle, R. (1996). Multiple Meanings and Multiculturalism. Women in IT Education. Research Report CIT-96-09, Griffith University

Nielsen, S.H., von Hellens, L.A., Greenhill, A. & Pringle, R. (1996) Connectivity and Collectivism. Taking Advantage of Multiculturalism in Information Technology Education. Research Report CIT-96-10, Griffith University

1995

Greenhill, A., von Hellens, L., Nielsen, S. & Pringle, R. (1995) Larrikin Cultures and Women in IT Education. Research Report CIT-95-27, Griffith University