Andrew Crabtree

Andrew Crabtree is a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK. A sociologist by background, he started working with computer scientists and software engineers when he did his PhD with John Hughes at Lancaster University, UK. He has championed the use of ethnography in systems design and has been working on shaping computing around the social world for the last 25 years. He has written three textbooks on ethnography for design. In 2014, he became the first...See more

Andrew Crabtree is a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK. A sociologist by background, he started working with computer scientists and software engineers when he did his PhD with John Hughes at Lancaster University, UK. He has championed the use of ethnography in systems design and has been working on shaping computing around the social world for the last 25 years. He has written three textbooks on ethnography for design. In 2014, he became the first ethnographer to be awarded a senior EPSRC Fellowship to respond to the privacy and accountability challenge created by the IoT and the technological transformation of the home into a key site of personal data production. See less