Click on the link below to read the most recent CREST News Bulletin, which features the latest news from the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation located in Kerala, India. This year, four undergraduate students from the University of Toronto will be undertaking 2 month internships with CREST. Stay tuned for more updates … Continue reading
From its beginning, socio-cultural anthropology was founded on ethnographic fieldwork. Often described as “going native,” anthropologists are expected to immerse themselves in the society they are investigating, by embracing the cultures, rituals, and traditions of their interlocutors, and living among them. A question that has emerged within anthropology over the last twenty-years or so, has … Continue reading
The Ethnography Lab is pleased to announce that Jessika Tremblay, PhD Candidate in the University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, has been awarded a Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund award to lead a partnership building project with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Metropolitan Studies in the summer of 2016. Jessika will be traveling to Germany with … Continue reading
It is extremely rare for us to encounter researchers’ corporeality in the field as directly shaping the appearance of ethnographic products. No matter how hot it was in the field, the published book would not retain a drop of the researchers’ sweat. No matter how tired the fieldworker was, we do not find misspellings (usually) … Continue reading
RL Solutions is a patient safety software company. Located in downtown Toronto, their software powers the world’s top healthcare organizations. RL Solutions is currently hiring a Design Researcher for their team. The company is interested in taking a user centered, human centered approach to research. They are interested in people who are able to take very abstract … Continue reading
Dr. Andrea Muehlebach, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, has recently been writing and speaking publicly about the relationship between water and democracy in Italy. See her ROAR Mag article and This is Hell! interview here. Continue reading
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On February 12th, 2016, Dr. Barbara McGrath delivered a talk entitled Ethnography and Market Research as part of the 2nd Annual Ethnography Lab Speaker Series discussing the link between ethnography and market research. She has kindly given us permission to share her talk here. Description: More than a decade ago, the ethnographic method started to … Continue reading
The Ethnography Lab is pleased to announce that registration has opened for the inaugural Ethnography in Canada 2016 conference. Attendance is free — but registration is required. See post for details. Continue reading
Transforming Students into Researchers: Anthropology Wins the 2016 Northrop Frye Award The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto is the proud 2016 recipient of the Northrop Frye Award! By integrating original fieldwork into undergraduate courses, the department has been recognized for introducing students to research and rousing their enthusiasm. Both are key criteria … Continue reading
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