Back in Myanmar scouting a new project.
Studio D Radiodurans works with creative thinkers, strategists and data scientists. How would you design the following experiment?
Working in Myanmar this past year (and heading out there again shortly) was a good prompt to write up and publish a piece that’s been …
Download the report: Afford Two, Eat One: Financial Inclusion in Rural Myanmar Download over 200 creative commons photos and other assets from the report. Most of you …
I’m now working on my third publication, The Field Study Handbook. The handbook contains everything I wish I’d known starting out, drawing on over a …
Full house for a recent talk in Chengdu University. Thanks-all for turning out and for local guide Mooncake for cueing up.
In the Kingdom for the week. And what a week.
I’ve spent the last year exploring the value that can be drawn from different forms of data ranging from client’s “big data” through to building …
The team doesn’t normally require a full time hustler, but it does need people who know how to hustle: that can talk their way through …
Except from the research report: In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan co-authored with Cara Silver, Mark Rolston and …
I wrote the following article for a research paper
https://janchipchase.com/2013/03/the-10-emotional-stages-of-a-higher-risk-ask/
Download the research report: In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan co-authored with Cara Silver, Mark Rolston and Joshua …
Except from the research report: In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan co-authored with Cara Silver, Mark Rolston and …
One of our crew pulling in hygiene shots.
There are projects. The ones that shape, mould and refine our methods, allow us to iterate on how we think about collecting, analysing and applying …
Trucks from Pakistan on the outskirts of Kabul. 8-person group dynamics that were both humbling and a little hairy.
Another wake-up-with-the-city session, this time in Herat. Out and about at six am to take a variety of contexts including the Friday Mosque before breakfast. …
Planning a trip to Afghanistan in the winter, a process that includes conversations with a couple of colleagues about whether to go and what to …
https://janchipchase.com/2012/09/emotional-stages-of-trip-preparation/
This article summarises the issues in conducting corporate ethnographic research in rural locations covering logistics to research dynamics. Rural communities are far from homongenous. Over the �...
https://janchipchase.com/2012/07/thoughts-on-rural-research/
So much of our research is in-context and over the shoulder, but with this trip to Rwanda been investing in a bit of longer distance …
Researcher Cara holding a 67mm polariser up to a 62.
Prepping for a field study in Rwanda and a few other places this week. Knowing how to interpret a satellite photos and data from other mapping …
One of the more important benchmarks for a community’s development is whether or not homes and shops include fridges – simply because they require continuous, …
Been tracking the contents of people’s bags, pockets and car boots for a while now, to understand how people equip themselves for what lies out …
» What’s is like working for BigCorps pillaging the intellect of people around the world for commercial gain? » How do you sleep at night …
https://janchipchase.com/2012/01/new-essay-imperialist-tendencies/
It might seem counter-productive to travel half way across the world to observe or take part in an activity that we would otherwise try to …
Syncing with the team in Chongqing – the city of 30 million souls that most non-locals have never heard of. If you want to understand …
https://janchipchase.com/2011/12/drive-drive-drive-fly-fly-fly/
A critical part of any ethnographic/design research project is recruiting the right participants for the study – they are the foundation on which the research …
Four transcription services: Cloudwords, Casting Words, Verbalink and Way With Words.
Over the years I’ve had the (mostly) good fortune to interact with a wide variety of folks from the media – journalists, reporters, photographers, writers, …
https://janchipchase.com/2011/10/things-to-know-before-stepping-into-an-interview/