The Field Study Handbook

Publisher summary

The comprehensive how-to, why-to guide to running international field research projects. The Handbook is for anyone that needs to understand users, customers, people across markets, geographies and cultures.

The Handbook reveals how to:

  • Build and lead trusted multicultural teams, anywhere in the world.
  • Run a field study from pitch to deliverable, initial hypothesis to becoming organisational wisdom.
  • Learn how to read contexts, identify patterns of behaviour, decode cultures, and generate insights that inform and inspire product, brand, strategy, policy, and communications.
  • Pinpoint the difference between local, regional, and globally relevant solutions.
  • Challenge minds, flutter hearts, and make a difference.

Table of contents

  • Part 1: Planning
    • Chapter 1. Introduction
    • Chapter 2. Models Of Research
    • Chapter 3. The Fundamentals
    • Chapter 4: Recruiting Participants
    • Chapter 5: Team
    • Chapter 6: Managing Risk
  • Part two: Field methods
    • Chapter 7: Approaches
    • Chapter 8: Interviews
    • Chapter 9: Mapping, Logging & Inventories
    • Chapter 10: Surveys
    • Chapter 11: Rapid Calibration Techniques
  • Part three: In the field
    • Chapter 12: Popup Studios
    • Chapter 13: Data Collection
    • Chapter 14: Constructs
    • Chapter 15: Dynamics & Flow
  • Part four: Implementation
    • Chapter 16: Sensemaking
    • Chapter 17: Deliverables
    • Chapter 18: Sharing
    • Chapter 19: Impact
    • Chapter 20: Reflecting Forward
  • Appendices

Authorship

Jan Chipchase