Tom Brown May 16, 2013 We’re proud to say that ESRO had a fantastic night at Monday’s Laria awards. In partnership with the London Borough of Lambeth, we were delighted to win the Best Community Engagement/Consultation Award for our ethnographic training of council officers, and our associated studies of some of the borough’s most hard-to-engage communities.
Andrew Naughtie April 25, 2013 We are delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories for the inaugural Local Authorities Research & Intelligence Association (Laria) awards.
We’ve been nominated in the Community Engagement category for our work with Lambeth Council, transferring ethnographic skills to council staff, and
Laria awards in Awards, ESRO news, Team news Rebecca Nash April 25, 2013 I had a great time yesterday at Brighton University, delivering a lecture on the design-based applications of ethnography to final year product design students. Click here for their excellent blog - which features a few kind words on what I had to say! Thanks to everyone there for making me so welcome.
design research in ESRO news, Team news Andrew Naughtie April 11, 2013 When I reflect on all the exciting work I’m now doing at ESRO, it’s hard to believe that a year ago I was hunched over a table in a school gym somewhere in the American midwest, carefully weighing a kindergartener’s half-eaten, half-regurgitated lunch in the name of behavioural economics.
I was working as a research assistant on a field experiment at a major American university.
behavioural economics in Ethnography, Research Becky Rowe April 2, 2013 Last summer, the ESRO team was involved in a thought-provoking piece of work about funerals in the UK. Our researchers interviewed more than 25 people across the country, each of whom had recently organised a funeral. We spoke to many leading thinkers on - and practitioners of - modern funerals, and were generously permitted to attend some funerals at a South London Crematorium.
Despite waning church attendance, it became clear that funerals still mean a lot to people.