Alexis Walker: An anthropologist working in technology and business, developments in technology and peoples relationships to technologies

Alexis Walker has over ten years of experience within research design and applying her skills as a social scientist and ethnographer in projects of both academic and business (having worked for companies such as American Airlines, Mars, and Root etc.). She has a PhD and focusses on researching the social aspects surrounding Technology and Science and during her PhD did an ethnography on project design looking at the values of actors involved (which can be found in the links below).

In this episode we talk to Alexis about her experience working in User experience research and design, how her research has helped many companies in the design of technological products. And what her advice for businesses, researchers and designers in creating a technological product.

Alexis’s work:

Narrating health and scarcity: Guyanese healthcare workers, development reformers, and sacrifice as solution from socialist to neoliberal governance
publication dateFeb 1, 2017 publication descriptionSocial Science and Medicine
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28187906)

Observing the Patent System in Social and Political Perspective: A Case Study of Europe
publication dateMar 27, 2014 publication descriptionGlobal Perspectives on Patent Law

Social media or other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-walker-8aa96039/