In Somalia/Somaliland for a project, good crew, interesting times. The tail-end to a month on the road that has taken in Milan, Lisbon, London, Oslo …
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Dawn terrace, this morning’s office for writing up notes. Good coffee, brisk hill station air, chanting from the local monastery wafting over and an hour …
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I’m now working on my third publication, The Field Study Handbook. The handbook contains everything I wish I’d known starting out, drawing on over a …
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To celebrate the launch of Today’s Office English Digital Edition, you can now purchase a museum quality limited edition print of The Runner taken from …
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I’ve spent the last year exploring the value that can be drawn from different forms of data ranging from client’s “big data” through to building …
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The team doesn’t normally require a full time hustler, but it does need people who know how to hustle: that can talk their way through …
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Except from the research report: In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan co-authored with Cara Silver, Mark Rolston and …
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Planning a trip to Afghanistan in the winter, a process that includes conversations with a couple of colleagues about whether to go and what to …
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Prepping for a field study in Rwanda and a few other places this week. Knowing how to interpret a satellite photos and data from other mapping …
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