I’m currently completing a Ph.D. at Stanford University in Anthropology & Education in a program called Learning Sciences and Technology Design.
I work in the NSF-funded LIFE Center as well as the K12 research team at the Stanford Institute of Design (the d.school). My advisors are Drs. Roy Pea, Ray McDermott and Brigid Barron (School of Education), David Kelley and Bernie Roth (Design).
My research, the short version:
I research how people learn to collaborate with one another ‘in the wild.’
I’m currently studying how two different communities – Quakers and product designers – have, each in their own way, developed a culture where people not only collaborate productively, but see each other as sources of innovation.