An acquaintance heading to Paris for hypnosis training stopped Nishani Bourmault cold: anesthesiologists are supposed to be evidence-based. She and Michel Anteby recount ...

Why did the analog synthesizer come back? Andrew Nelson, Callen Anthony, and Mary Tripsas, all musicians themselves, on the pleasures and pitfalls of ...

Arvind Karunakaran joins the podcast to discuss what happens when social media outrage lands on 911 dispatchers and other frontline professionals, and how ...

Winnie Jiang's study of journalists began with a screening of Spotlight and a four-hour first interview. She and Amy Wrzesniewski recount how an ...

Cold emails got no response, so Madeline Toubiana and Trish Ruebottom went to the protests. They recount earning the trust of sex workers ...

Ruthanne Huising on studying 71 university research labs within a decade-long team ethnography, staying neutral among lab cliques, and why professionals gain authority ...

Michael Pratt joins the podcast to discuss trust among firefighters who must take leaps of faith, and how an out-of-the-blue call from engineers ...

Matthew Beane discusses shadow learning in robotic surgery, why the risk that matters for learning is socially constructed, and how the robot made ...

How do you pick sites for a comparative ethnography? Katherine Kellogg explains why she only studies hospitals matched on everything the literature already ...

It takes a village, says Beth Bechky: phone calls from field sites, years of presentations, friendly readers of half-baked drafts. She describes how ...

A senior colleague didn't want the trip to a Florida sheriff's department, so Shefali Patil went instead, arriving two weeks before body cameras ...

The collaboration behind this study of green chemistry began when chemist Julie Haack asked management scholar Jennifer Howard-Grenville how to visualize her community's ...

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf admits open innovation initially struck her as unserious: click a button, problem solved. On this podcast episode, she recounts the fieldwork ...

Julia DiBenigno on comparative ethnography in U.S. Army mental health care: a year of pilot fieldwork across seven posts, then four carefully matched ...

An anatomist once shouted 'Catch!' and threw Michel Anteby a plastinated body part, testing him for disgust. Anteby recounts studying the U.S. cadaver ...

Emily Truelove and Katherine Kellogg walk through the countless drafts behind their radical flank paper, including reviewer orders to swap an empirical puzzle ...

What began as a one-year exploratory study of service design stretched to five. Anne-Laure Fayard, Ileana Stigliani, and Beth Bechky describe how reviewers, ...

Interdisciplinary research wins citations but costs productivity. Erin Leahey, Christine Beckman, and Taryn Stanko discuss that trade-off, why their sample couldn't answer the ...

Curtis Chan and Michel Anteby wanted to train alongside TSA officers until their IRB balked at researchers making national security decisions. They recount ...

Why are gay men overrepresented in some occupations and lesbians in others? András Tilcsik, Michel Anteby, and Carly Knight argue the answer is ...

Mary Dunn and Candace Jones noticed that the rise of a care logic in medical education tracked the arrival of women in medical ...

Linda Johanson is usually the first person to read your ASQ submission. The journal's managing editor describes how manuscripts get matched to editors ...

Julia DiBenigno and Katherine Kellogg matched two nearly identical hospital units and found that nurses and patient care technicians collaborated well on only ...

Why did transparent benefit cuts stall while opaque spending caps spread through the Fortune 500? Forrest Briscoe and Chad Murphy explain how consultants' ...

Chad McPherson and Michael Sauder didn't enter the drug court with institutional logics in mind. They describe how the frame emerged halfway through ...