National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
For this weeks posting I thought I’d present exciting and new job openings focused on social and sustainability issues: The New Futures Lab is a design-led innovation team “reimagining the role of packaging as it relates to food mobility, access, and waste reduction.” They just posted an opening for a Knowledge Manager who will “leverage…
UX and design research jobs are all the rage right now for applied anthropologists seeking out career opportunities. You’d be hard pressed to locate applied positions that ask for experience in ethnography or an educational background that includes anthropology that doesn’t also include UX or user research in its description and I believe anthropology departments…
Brief Introduction: Hello reader, Brandon Meyer here, technical coordinator for NAPA signing onto the anthrojobs of the week blog for the first time and for the foreseeable future. The applicability of anthropology across a broad range of fields makes it both an opportunity and a challenge to search for jobs relevant to blossoming and established…
Anthropologists are particularly suited to be qualitative UX researchers, and applied Anthropologists are well trained for careers in industry. I can only write about my personal experience, but if you earned a degree in anthropology, I would love to hear how similar or different your experiences have been. At the University of Memphis’ Masters of Applied Anthropology Program, we learned how to execute research methods and analysis, determine which method was best suited to particular research questions, and how to manage stakeholders. That’s all you really need to know to start your career as a User Experience Researcher (UER).
The National Association For The Practice of Anthropology is a section of The American Anthropological Association (AAA) – contact GC