Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry

Sarah Pink is Professor in the School of Communication and Media and the Design Research Institute at RMIT University (Australia). She specialises in developing interdisciplinary research and scholarship rooted in social and visual anthropology. Her work usually involves digital visual methods and media, and often seeks to connect applied practice, methodological development and theoretical scholarship and she has authored, edited or co-edited 10 books. Her research projects and collaborations at Loughborough University (UK) focus on domestic energy consumption and digital media, and occupational safety and health in organisations. Dylan Tutt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Innovative Construction Research Centre at the University of Reading. His publications reflect a strong interest in the social shaping of technology, workplace studies, ethnographic interventions, construction sociology and the sociology of the family. Andrew Dainty is Professor of Construction Sociology and Associate Dean (Research) within the School of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University. He is co-author/editor of seven books and research monographs and is co-editor of the journal Construction Management and Economics.

• 1. Introducing Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry 2. The Labour of Refurbishment: Space and Time, and the Building and the Body 3. "We’ve Got Our Own Language": The Communication Practices of Migrant Workers in the UK Construction Industry 4. ‘On the Tools’: The Physical Work of Building and Renovating Houses in Perth, Western Australia 5. Ethnography and Flux: Identity and Epistemology in Construction Fieldwork 6. Building Contacts: The Trials, Tribulations and Translations of an Ethnographic Researcher in Construction 7. Where’s the Action? Challenges of Ethnographic Research in Construction 8. Contributions of Ethnographic Practice to Community-Engaged Research in Construction Management 9. From Interpretation to Action: Unique Adequacy as a Common Standard for the Evaluation of Research in the Built Environment