Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: storytelling

Play it Back: Research as Intervention

Play it Back: Research as Intervention

PechaKucha Presentation The social welfare system was built to protect the vulnerable through the provision of basic needs. I left my social service job to join an organization with a mission to shift that system from safety nets to trampolines - from services designed to maximize safety, to those...

The Story As Evidence: It’s Yours, It’s Mine, It’s Theirs

The Story As Evidence: It’s Yours, It’s Mine, It’s Theirs

PechaKucha Presentation I've been reflecting on my role in the use and abuse of evidence — in the past as a radio producer and more recently as a writer in a design research company. Storytelling is held aloft as something businesses need to do more of — and be better at — but often the narratives...

The Art of Sharing

The Art of Sharing

To understand the impact research can have requires an appreciation of how content ebbs and flows in an organisation, how ideas are passed from person to person and adopted, and how institutions internalise information, politics, and an acute sense of—wait for it—timing. A well-thought-out sharing...