Introducing the 2023 EPIC Equity Program Chairs
Meet the leaders working to advance equity and diversity through a new EPIC program! In May 2023 we will welcome the first cohort of participants in our new program,...
How Can the Job Search Suck Less? Ethnography, Community & Reflexivity in Career Transitions
Ethnographers are pathmakers by nature, but navigating the job market and other work transitions can be grueling and isolating. How can design and ethnographic methods,...
Art & Imagination in Online Qualitative Research: A New Tool for Brand Listening
At the beginning of the pandemic, I was pretty sure I was done. I had been a qualitative researcher and brand consultant for 25 years. I had spent the past decade...
Announcing the EPIC Equity Council & Cohort Program
Ethnographers are powerful change makers in business, organizations, and communities because we understand people within complex social and cultural contexts. In...
Making Tech More Accessible: An Ethnographic Lens on Ability and Disability
EPIC Members Richard Beckwith and Susan Faulkner (Intel) have assembled a panel of luminaries in accessible tech research, design, and engineering for our January...
A Collective EPIC Journey into 2023
Happy New Year EPIC People! New years, like all human rituals, are an ethnographic marvel. Amid the constant and disinterested motion of the Earth, people use the...
EPIC2022 Video & Proceedings Now Available on Demand!
EPIC2022 Resilience was the 18th edition of the premier global conference on ethnography in business and organizations. Now you can read the full-length papers and...
Removing Barriers for Research Participants with Disabilities
Overview Over a billion people worldwide (and around 25% of the populations of the USA and Europe) live with some kind of disability—a reality no organization...
EPIC2023—The Big Reveal!
Hello! We are Marta Cuciurean-Zapan, Director of Research and Insights at IDEO, and Evan Hanover, Director at Conifer Research. We are incredibly excited to...
Q&A with Tiffany Tivasuradej
Tell us about yourself in one sentence. Anthropologist that’s exploring the future of work for her work and baking a lot when she’s not at work. Why did you...
Q&A with Robin Kwong
Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m neither an ethnographer nor a researcher, but found my way to the EPIC community through a curiosity about organisational...
Q&A with Kristen Guth
Tell us about yourself in one sentence. I am a social scientist research leader focused on change at the intersections of strategy, technology, innovation, and the...