Pamela Morton

Pamela Morton (often credited as Pam Morton) is a British computing educator and academic administrator. She is recognised for her tenure at Thames Polytechnic (later the University of Greenwich) and her advocacy for women's participation in information technology and engineering. During the late 1970s and 1980s, she directed advanced computing curricula, served on national IT policy advisory bodies, and published research regarding gender-based access to technical education.

Early life and education Morton was raised in London. She pursued a University of London internal degree on a part-time basis while employed full-time, eventually completing a combined program in mathematics, chemistry, and physics at a London polytechnic. By the late 1970s, she was the director of the institution's advanced computer studies course.

Early Women in STEM Research and advocacy Morton was pioneering in her academic work focused on the structural barriers to women entering technical fields. Her 1985 paper, "Women in Information Technology: Engineering Aspects of the British Experience," published in IEEE Transactions on Education, compared British and American educational frameworks.

Morton's research was a catalyst for the creation of the Women into Information Technology campaign and active member. IT Skills Agency approached Morton with a view to organising a campaign to increase the number of women entering the IT industry. when she was interviewed by Janet Abbate for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEE) History Center's oral history collection. Her interview was one of fifty-two that contributed to the basis of Abbate's Computer History Museum Award-winning book Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (2012). Other interviewees included, Frances Allen, Jean Bartik, Barbara Liskov, Karen Spärck Jones and Dame Stephanie Shirley.

Morton is regarded as part of the first generation of British computing educators to integrate curriculum design with gender equality and national policy. Her work at Thames Polytechnic and within PITCOM established a precedent for widening participation in the UK's information technology sector.