“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”
Dagobert D. Runes
ABOUT MY WORK
I’ve had the privilege of conducting research commissioned by some of the world’s largest companies, the luxury of travelling abroad and calling many cities my ‘home’, and the joy of meeting people I could not have dreamt of interacting with before.
Being able to share my work with others is a privilege. Propelling the dialogue forward around what are ethical, accessible, and inclusive research practices ― is a responsibility.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Aleong, Nicole. 2024. “Future Orientations to Everyday Life: Futures Anthropology as a Methodology“, Advancing Research 2024 Conference, March 26, 2024. Invited speaker.
Aleong, Nicole. 2023. “What UX Research can learn from other research practices”, Rosenfeld Media Advancing Research 2024 Community Workshop, September 14, 2023. Invited presenter.
Aleong, Nicole. 2023. “Decoding Digital Authenticity.” Anthropology News website, May 8, 2023.
Aleong, Nicole. 2022. “Rehearsing Imagined Futures: Creative Performance as a Resilient Process Among Refugees.” EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) Proceedings, 2022 (1), 101-116. October 2022. Invited presenter. Paper accepted based on anonymous peer review.
Aleong, Nicole. 2022. “Creative Disruption: How Creative Newcomers Reimagine and Rehearse the Future of Work”, European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Applied Anthropology Network Annual Symposium Why The World Needs Anthropologists, September 2022. Invited presenter.
Aleong, Nicole. 2022. “Creativity as a Technology of the Imagination: an ethnographic study of Future-making Practices and Aspirations among Forced Migrants in Amsterdam.“ University of Amsterdam. Masters Thesis.
Aleong, N. and A. Korteland. 2020. “Laundry, Dishes, & Thermostats, Oh My! Unpacking the Motivation & Barriers Behind Three Everyday Energy Behaviours with BC Hydro”, BIG Difference BC (Behavioural Insights) Conference, November 2020. Case study poster presenter.
Let’s talk
I often have a few ideas mulling around. If you’d like to collaborate on a piece of work or writing, I’d love to find a time to bounce some ideas back and forth. Send me a message for us to get started.
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Nicole Aleong 