STEC
Research Assistant
Competency Areas Built
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Creativity + Aesthetics
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User + Society
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Design + Research Processes
About
Research Assistant for Smart Technologies, Empowered Citizens (STEC) Project April 2019 – Current
Eindhoven University of Technology
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ben Schouten
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Thematic analysis of interview transcripts using MAXQDA.
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Assisting with a qualitative systematic literature review on the design and deployment of (partly) digital technologies for civic communities.
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Assisting with mapping the stakeholder contexts of co-designing with civic communities.
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Editing papers for PhD Students for submission to conferences.
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Writing a cahier showcasing student design project and academia-industry collaboration.
My position as a research assistant for STEC has been instrumental in my growth towards becoming a design researcher. It has introduced me to the academic community and made me feel that I had found my people. I learned how to do a literature review and what the first years of a PhD can look like. It also showed me that I am capable of thinking on the abstract level and positioning the work I do within a wider corpus of work.
Please find the paper I published together with Gwen Klerks, Nicolai B. Hansen and Ben Schouten below, and stay tuned for a series of 5 cahiers on Smart and Civic Technologies for Citizen empowerment, coming soon!