Workplace Culture, Ethnography and Health Behaviour

We can help you navigate, plan and understand the 21st century’s social challenges for your organisation and working environment. Our expertise also addresses the intersection of human behaviour and culture on health.

Our workplace is changing and organisations increasingly need to know how to navigate these changes. Our health faces a variety of stressors in our modern lives and work. Powerful methods such as ethnography can help you understand your organisation and how to effectively make it work. Our experts have years of experience working with organisations and professionals to develop relevant practices for the workplace.

Case study

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Bridging Opportunity Gaps in Hackney: A Collaborative Endeavor

In partnership with Hackney Council, Ethnographic Insights Lab are co-producing a Greater London Authority-funded Employment Skills and Adult Learning program - “Improving Equality of Access to Job Opportunities across Hackney” - exploring why young Black and global majority residents feel less optimistic about finding work in the borough since 2018.

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Ethnographic Insights Lab

The Ethnographic Insights Lab (EI-Lab) provides rigorous social scientific understanding of human and organizational behaviour to develop human-centred solutions to complex challenges for a range of clients across government, industry, and public health.

Hannah Knox

Professor of Anthropology, UCL Anthropology

Email: h.knox@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: the relationship between technical infrastructures and social life through ethnographic studies of projects of technical transformation. Her work is concerned with understanding contemporary manifestations of risk and responsibility, territorial politics, expertise, knowledge and technology.

Teaching: Digital Anthropocene

David Napier

Professor of Medical Anthropology, UCL Anthropology

Email: d.napier@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: Anthropology; Clinical sciences; Cultural studies; Heritage, archive and museum studies; Health services and systems; Public health; Epidemiology

Teaching: Medical anthropology

Caroline Parker

Lecturer in Anthropology and Professional Practice, UCL Anthropology

Email: caroline-parker@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise:

Extensive experience in combining ethnographic methods, epidemiological approaches, and implementation science to reduce health inequalities.
Community based participatory research.
The public health impacts of incarceration and policing in Latin America, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Structural racism and racial health disparities.
Pharmaceutical markets, opioid use disorders, substance use disorders, and HIV/AIDS.

Teaching:

Racial Capitalism Caribbean Plantation Societies
Pharmaceutical Worlds: Markets, Medicines and Metaphors Anthropology of Health and Wellbeing
Medical Anthropology Anthropological Theory Regional Studies of Culture

Lucy Porter

Lecturer, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change

Email: lucy.porter@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: extensive experience in applying behavioural science theories and frameworks to develop health behaviour change interventions in academic and policy settings. member of Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK), an ESRC-funded hub for expertise and innovation in behavioural research. worked as a Principal Behavioural & Social Scientist at Public Health England and the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities where she worked on topics including diet and obesity, sexual and reproductive health, and alcohol harms reduction.

Teaching: Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach.