Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: methods

Building a Useful Research Tool: An Origin Story of AEIOU

Building a Useful Research Tool: An Origin Story of AEIOU

It is awfully nice not to have to invent a basic tool over and over again. For ethnographers, coding and categorization is work that has to happen whether you are studying housework or neurosurgery, with novices or experts, in an exotic location or in suburban Ohio (no offense to my friends and...

Biomimicry: Learnings from ‘The Field’

Biomimicry: Learnings from ‘The Field’

PechaKucha—The natural world is full of researchers – from the smallest of butterflies scoping out the perfect leaf to land on to the largest of elephants retracing the steps of their ancestors to find food and water. Every creature on earth is in a perpetual state of learning to adapt to the many...