Hi,

My name is Sandra Harrison and I am an Anthropologist offering 7 years' qualitative research experience.

Anthropology as a human science empowers me to understand subjective experience, gain insights into people’s motivations and actions, and cutting through the clutter of taken 'for' granted assumptions and conventional wisdom.

I want to apply my anthropological analytical skills and ethnographic methods to find out what it means to be human in today's world and translate these findings into a positive service design experience.

Anthropology has taught me how to:

• make use of my natural curiosity and pay close attention
• ask the right questions
• develop a reading to understand human behaviour, motivations, attitudes and frustrations
• recognise and uncover patterns of cultural practice
• be empathic and cultural aware for the research subjects and environment
• make sense of my observations and communicate my moments of clarity in a structured way

My research expertise includes:

• The postal industry
• Prosthetic technology
• Body politics
• Travel phenomena
• Age-friendly communities and social media
• Family and home movies

My methods include:

• Sensemaking and Abductive Reasoning
• Narratives and Storytelling Analysis
• Participative Observation
• Qualitative Interview
• Ethnographic Listening
• One-on-One User Testing
• Remote Testing
• Guerrilla Prototype Testing
• Card Sorting
• Treejack Testing
• Diary Study Research
• Survey
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Literature Review
• Competitive Analysis
• Co-Design Workshop
• Success Criteria Workshop
• Qualitative phenomenology analysis
• Thick Description
• Narratives and Storytelling
• Research Diary
• Cultural probe: Iconographical-Iconological Image-Discourse Analysis