
The People Say: How We Built a Groundbreaking Public Research Platform to Catalyze Human-Centered Policymaking
The People Say is a pioneering research repository and a model for making rich qualitative data available for policy innovation. This case study describes the rigorous...

Researcher Positionality and Identity Validation: A Case Study in Organizational Friction over the Framing of a Demographic Questionnaire
This case study offers strategies for navigating internal frictions within research teams faced with sensitive issues around positionality, research design, and...

Let’s Shift Power Together! An EPIC Co-Creation Activity
This wildcard session was a conference-wide co-creation activity. Together, EPIC attendees reflected on the dynamic relationship between resilience and power. Then,...

Tutorial: Power Tools for Equity in Research & Design
Overview To do ethical, equitable work in any domain, we need robust tools for assessing and addressing power. Whether we’re creating products, services, or policies,...

Change Agent: Lessons on Power and Failure from Eight Years of Systems Research & Policy Design
PechaKucha Presentation Drawing on nearly a decade of research and design engagements with U.S. federal and municipal governments, I’ll describe a gap between...

Human-Centered Research in Policymaking
Article 5 in the series Data, Design and Civics: Ethnographic Perspectives “ such as unslumming slums, catalyzing diversity, nurturing lively streets, are...