Workplace Culture, Ethnography and Health Behaviour
We help you navigate and plan for 21st-century social challenges in 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
Bridging Opportunity Gaps in Hackney: A Collaborative Endeavor
Alongside Hackney Council, Ethnographic Insights Lab is co-producing a program to improve job access, exploring why young Black & global majority residents less optimistic about employment since 2018.
Work with one of our experts
We are keen to hear from you and to work together to use social science to help you solve your unique requirements. Find a relevant expert below and send them an email to get started.
Part of UCL Anthropology
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.
Professor of Anthropology, UCL Anthropology
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
Professor of Medical Anthropology, UCL Anthropology
Specific expertise: Anthropology; Clinical sciences; Cultural studies; Heritage, archive and museum studies; Health services and systems; Public health; Epidemiology
Teaching: Medical anthropology
Lecturer in Anthropology and Professional Practice, UCL Anthropology
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.
Lecturer, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change
Specific expertise: applying behavioural science theories and frameworks to develop health behaviour change interventions in academic and policy settings. member of Behavioural Research UK, an ESRC-funded hub for expertise and innovation in behavioural research. worked as a Principal Behavioural & Social Scientist at PHE and the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities where she worked on topics including diet and obesity, sexual and reproductive health, and alcohol harms reduction.
Get in touch to discuss your needs
For any general consultancy questions, contract issues, or to enquire about the possibility of setting up a programme of internships and placements with us, reach out to Mark Altaweel:
Professor Mark Altaweel
Vice-Dean (Innovation, Enterprise & Knowledge Exchange)
Click to email. shs.consultancy@ucl.ac.uk