Tutorials & Talks

Welcome to our collection of tutorials and talks—recordings of short courses from our annual conference and webinars in our series EPIC Talks.

2022 TALKS

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Ethnography for Organizational Change

EPIC2021 TUTORIALS

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Designing Ethnofutures Research Projects

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Business Thinking for Ethnographers

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From Research to Action: Leading Teams Through Synthesis

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Ethnography for Project Risk Analysis and Quality Assurance

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Ethnographic Video: Storytelling for Impact

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Leading with Care: How to Support the Mental Well-being of Your Team

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Frameworks and Foundations for Research Team Development

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Using Analogs to Research the Unknown

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Research for Accessible and Inclusive Design

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Power Tools for Equity in Research & Design

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Research Recruitment: How to Find and Connect to Participants

PAST TALKS & TUTORIALS

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Anticipating Credible Futures
Rich Radka

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Anthro-Vision: A Manifesto for Ethnography in Business
Gillian Tett, Donna Flynn & Simon Roberts

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From Users to User Ecosystems
Mike Youngblood, Ben Chesluck & Nadeen Haidary

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How Research Can Drive Organizational Change for Digital Literacy and Inclusion
Nadine Levin

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Doing Ethnography in Civic Spaces
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Recalibrating a Patient-centric Perspective in Healthcare Today
Selene Camargo Correa & Juliana Saldarriaga

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Space & Place in a Digital Age
Laura Cesafsky

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Let's Get Real about Burnout
Tracey Lovejoy

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Using Ethnographic Superpowers to Build Partnerships
Jay Hasbrouck

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Data and Ethnography for Better AI Product Development
Ovetta Sampson

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Beyond “Quant-vs-Qual”: Creating Collaborative Inquiry
Alex Hughes et al

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Calibrating Ethnofutures
J.A. English-Lueck et al

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Digital Ethnography in Domestic Spaces
Jenny Kennedy & Rowan Wilken

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Integrating Sustainability Perspectives in Ethnographic Work
Mike Youngblood

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Introduction to Survey Design
Jennifer Hunsecker & Lauren Walton

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Using a Mobile Research Platform for Multi-dimensional Ethnography
Julia Haines & Bob Evans

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Building User Research: Careers, Teams, and Leadership
Sara Belt

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Quant & Qual on Common Ground
Alex Hughes, Jenny Lo & Will Monge

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Post-Human Centered Design: Working Responsibly at Scale
John Payne

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Remote Research & the Challenge of 'Being There'
Rita Denny, Susan Faulkner, Julia Haines, Lee Ryan

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Decoding Organizational Culture
John Curran

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Remote Workshops & Collaboration
Nichole Carelock, Carrie Yury & Martha Cotton

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Work/Life in the Pandemic

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Doing Analysis with Grounded Theory
Rachel Ceasar

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Branding & Consumer Agency
Timothy Malefyt & Maryann McCabe

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Ethics in Data-Driven Industries
Emanuel Moss & Friederike Schüür

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Participatory Visual Research
Krista Harper

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Sketchnoting
Nora Morales

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Making Sense: Leading Teams through Synthesis
Ksenia Pachikov & Marta Cuciurean-Zapan

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Cultivating Research Capacity as Organizational Strategy
Meena Kothandaraman & Zarla Ludin

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Information Design for Ethnographic Analysis
Sheila Pontis

Creating a Strategic Role for Research in Your Organization
Instructors: Meena Kothandaraman & Zarla Ludin

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Collaboration by Design
Presenter: Natalie Hanson

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How We Hire Researchers
Panelists: Elizabeth Churchill, Martha Cotton, April Jeffries & John Sherry

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Mixed Methods
Instructor: Sam Ladner

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Fundamentals of Observational Research
Instructor: Mike Youngblood

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Ethnographic Thinking for Wicked Problems
Instructors: Jay Hasbrouck & Charley Scull

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Ethnography, Independent Consulting & the Gig Life
Presenters: Shelley Sather & Hal Phillips

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Framing Brands and Markets: Consumer Culture Theory
Presenters: David Crockett, Rita Denny, Amber Epp, Craig Thompson & Sunaina Schultz

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Using Video to Think Ethnographically
Presenter: Charley Scull

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Blockchain & the Social Challenge of Cooperation
Presenter: Ellie Rennie

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Moral Crumple Zones: Agency and Accountability in Human-AI Interaction
Presenter: Madeleine Clare Elish

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Agency & Change
Presenters: Kate Sieck & Steven Garcia

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Exploring Ethnofutures
Presenters: Miriam Lueck Avery, Jan English-Lueck, Lyn Jeffery & Fernando Galdino

Cyborg Anthropology
Instructor: Danya Glabau

Post–Human-Centered Design
Instructor: John Payne

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Doing Ethnography of Data Science & Algorithmic Systems
Instructor: Ian Lowrie

Agile for Researchers
Instructors: Carrie Yury & Chris Young

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MBA Basics: How to Think Like a Business
Instructors: Carolyn Hou & Emil Stigsgaard Fuglsang

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Virtual Reality and Ethnographic Research
Instructors: Karl Mendonca & Adele Ray

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Ethnographic Research Design
Instructor: Sam Ladner

Getting Started with Sensor Data
Instructor: Dawn Nafus

Visualization Principles
Instructor: Robert Zolna

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Analysis in Human-Centered Design
Instructors: Carey Palmer & JoEllen Kames

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Human Sciences and Value Creation: Building Transformative Value Propositions
Instructor: Johannes Suikkanen

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Structuring Analysis for Innovation
Instructors: Marcelo Fagundes & Murilo Gome

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Semiotics: A User’s Guide to Seeing Differently
Instructors: Cato Hunt & Clem McCulloch

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Speculative Design: Futures Prototyping for Research and Strategy
Instructors: J. Paul Neeley & Elliot Montgomery

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Six Principles for Working Differently
Instructors: Martha Cotton & Shelley Sather

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Data Visualization for Urban Innovation
Instructor: Anja Maerz