About Uxeda
Uxeda provides a rigorously curated selection of Social Science Data Collection Resources. This includes:
Physical tools - Pens, notebooks, clipboards, voice-recorders, microphones, travel gear, cameras, accessories, software, EDC gizmos - all specifically chosen based on our own experience doing rigorous fieldwork around the world under all sorts of mundane and/or absurd conditions.
Product review videos - What makes a resource more or less suitable for the work we do? We use our product review videos to compare tools, discuss their utility, and figure out what makes them good (or bad) for our professional needs.
Podcasts - The idea of “social science” spans a multitude of fields. Some of our methodology is nearly universal, while other techniques are weirdly sector-specific. Our podcast features conversations with colleagues working in a variety of disciplines and locations. What can we learn from each other, and why do we do the things we do?
Blogs - We write about what matters to us. Not just data collection tools and methodology, but also about the things that go with that: working in challenging conditions, team dynamics, ethics, and so much more.
Photos - In the course of our fieldwork we’ve taken thousands of photographs. We’re not professional photographers, but there’s a few good ones in there, so we’re going to share some of them here.
Clothing - Things that you can wear to impress your other social scientist friends.
That’s what we do. More to come.
Meet the team:
Jared Berenter
Public policy professional and social scientist specializing in quantitative and qualitative methods for policy research and evaluation.
Isaac Morrison
Anthropologist and social scientist specializing in monitoring and evaluation methods and tools including: Most Significant Change, Outcome Harvesting, Outcome Mapping, Sensemaking, Tracer Studies, Success-case studies, Stakeholder mapping, Social Network Analysis, and Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis.
FAQs
What does “uxeda” mean?
It started as a spin-off of the Spanish word for search: busqueda. We were playing around with letters and sounds, and got to something that just sort of looked and sounded right. It somehow felt solid and ambiguous at the same time - like it could be Mixtec, or Xhosa, or Uzbek, or Basque, or Kurmanji - simultaneously both strange and familiar.
How is “uxeda” pronounced?
ook-say-da? yew-ex-i-da? yoo-see-da? uçeta? وقسيذة ? … Honestly, no idea.
Who are you including in your definition of “Social Scientists?”
Pretty much anyone who ethically and systematically interacts with other human beings for the explicit purpose of consensually eliciting information from them. Most obviously this includes activities like conducting surveys, focus groups, and interviews. But it also extends to people doing discipline-specific practices like engaging in participant observation, leading group facilitation exercises, collecting stories, and monitoring human/technology interactions.
Are there any other frequently asked questions?
No.