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The NIRF in Practice: Surfacing Patterns, Finding Traction
When we introduced the updated Necessarily Insider Research Framework (NIRF), we offered it not as a checklist, but as a landscape. Now with reflexivity being made explicit, there are 192 evaluative prompts to consider as part of Professional Practice research. That might sound like too much – but it’s intentionally rich. This isn’t a framework […]
Reflecting on Reflection: Strengthening the Necessarily Insider Research Framework
June 30, 2025
When we first introduced the Necessarily Insider Research Framework (NIRF), it was designed to help Professional Practice researchers navigate the often messy, ethically charged terrain of researching from within their own practice. The framework offered evaluative questions, not as a checklist, but as a landscape – a way to orient and reflect, to challenge and […]
Riding Waves of Practice: Where Visual Storytelling Meets Insider Research
June 30, 2025
Sometimes words are not enough. In our latest collaboration – Riding Waves of Practice – Ruth Myers, Dave Guruge, and I wanted to explore what it feels like to do Professional Practice research when the stories are hard to tell, the methods don’t exist yet, and the path forward is more like surfing chaos than […]
Learning Where Angels Fear to Tread: Evaluative Questions for Necessarily Insider Professional Practice
June 30, 2025
In Professional Practice research, we’ve long celebrated the idea that some of the most valuable learning comes from within our own messy, lived experiences. But what happens when that messiness isn’t just inconvenient, but ethically fraught, emotionally overwhelming, or simply too complex for conventional research approaches? That was the starting point for our work on […]
Seven Times Upon an Ism: Extending the Layered Drivers Framework
June 29, 2025
A year ago, we introduced the Layered Drivers “isms” framework building on Boehnert’s levels of sexism as a structured way to identify and act upon the complex, multi-level drivers of systemic oppression in professional settings. Since then, we’ve been busy not just talking about it, but testing and expanding it, in the messiness of real […]
Computing for Sustainability 
June 30, 2025
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