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Note: Because I’m a medical anthropologist living in Los Angeles, California, a lot of my resources bend toward healthcare and tech. Please feel free to email me with resources beyond this area and regional focus so I can share them here:
Ethnography-industry networking and resources
EPIC website with ethnographic-focused job board, events, and annual conference
Ethnography Matters website that I don’t think is active, but has a great Slack channel for conversations around ethnography; also listserv design-user-research@googlegroups.com
Mixed Methods blog, Medium, podcast, and Slack channel about user experience
Versatile PhD online community of social scientists and scientists, job board, networking, meetups in big cities
Ethnobreakfast google group of applied anthropologists in Bay Area, meetup locally to connect and read; ethnobreakfast@googlegroups.com
Meetup.com groups all over the world that get together to talk about ethnography, design thinking, UX, and service design
Service Design Network international professional society
Practical Service Design blog, podcast, and Slack channel community
Design Gigs for Good google group job board at the intersection of design and social impact.
Internationalistas: private fb group of women working in development, humanitarian, campaigns, research, activism, art, journalism
Resume, Cover Letter, Portfolio, LinkedIn, and other professionalization resources
Create a stellar LinkedIn profile, workshop slides
Good resume examples, formatting: 1 2
Good resume and portfolio example, anthropologist
LinkedIn world of anthropologists
Zoom conference calling platform, educational discount
Portfolium: a social networking platform company that allows university students and grads to connect with businesses and employers and present their previous academic work and projects to supplement their resumes
Creating a website resources
Squarespace 50% discount for students
Good website examples, some specific to healthcare and tech, of my some of my favorite social scientists doing cool work out in the world: Tricia Wang. Dayna Glabeau. Soo-Young Chin. Sam Ladner.
Research institutes
RAND nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis
RTI International: another non-profit institution that provides research and technical services—and hires social scientists!
Facebook Research offers full-time industry positions, new grad and postdoc positions, and PhD internship programs
James Hutton Institute UK-based research institute focusing on environmental research, including food, energy and environmental security (thanks Daksha for the recommendation!)
Examples, specific to healthcare:
PIRE nonprofit merging scientific knowledge and practice to create solutions that improve the health, safety, and well-being
Friends Research Institute non-profit research organization to promote health and wellbeing
Veteran’s Affairs, special issue showcasing anthropology at VA
Kaiser Permanente has hired anthropologists and sociologists at Oakland, Northwest locations
IBM Watson Health focus on advancing healthcare through tech, has hired anthropologists
Tobacco-Related Research Program funds research that enhances understanding of tobacco use and related diseases in California
Foundation Brocher multidisciplinary research institute focused on medical development, bioethics, and public health policy; offers residencies for write up and exchange
Interesting things to read
Profiles in Practice articles on anthropologists working outside of academia, including National Parks Service and National Institute of Health
Academic Precarity in American Anthropology: A Forum a Cultural Anthropology series published online in 2018, with interesting stats on # PhDs vs. # of jobs—and what anthropology should do about it
Remote freelancing resources
Not recommended because these opportunities are often a dead end and pay very little, but if you need to pay the bills ASAP—look for gigs that need analysis (Nvivo, Atlas.ti, etc.) over copyediting. Analysis will pay more and there is less competition since every single PhD student out there is vying for copyediting jobs!
Upwork meat market of remote jobs
Kolabtree more specialized jobs