I had to make a couple of slides describing my work interests in an informal way, so I thought of posting them here as well. Could be useful as an informal intro* and interesting in retrospect…
What I do best: asking questions and recognising patterns, initiating and facilitating change, workshop/learning facilitation, boundary spanning, translating from research to practice and back
Contexts: knowledge management, human resources development, technologies for collaboration, learning and knowledge sharing (including those under “social software” umbrella), technology adoption and change management
Things I value at work: flexibility in time and space, participatory leadership, space for diversity, time for good arguments before settling for a compromise
Topics I’d like to explore
- Personal (something) management – personal ways of managing things around work (information, relations, time, productivity, etc.) and ways of supporting it
- Managing things you can’t control (e.g. knowledge work)
- Web 2.0 (emergent technologies – low-weight and bottom up) and Enterprise 2.0 (how those could change work and what is needed for that)
- Digital traces – making of what is already there, personal/social/business implications, privacy and ownership
- Ambient information and knowledge – supporting peripheral awareness
- Technology introduction/adoption across contexts
- Supporting work and life of people with no work/life balance
Activities I’d like to be involved
- Qualitative, exploratory studies
- Don’t ask me to do experimental research – I’m bad at it (so I’ll come up with enough explanations why it’s bad for the project ;)
- User studies (e.g. prototype evaluation)
- Support for introduction/implementation
- Workshop/training/community facilitation face-to-face and online
- Integration between social, business and technology perspectives (e.g. while designing a solution)
- Business cases, “selling” research (results) to managers
- Project management
* Just a note – not looking for any big new thing (project or job ;) before my PhD is close to completion, but always up for a conversation and a bit of thinking/reading/writing…
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