Overview
This one-day workshop will provide an introduction to the theory and methods of cognitive ethnography, focusing on cognitive event analysis, a method pioneered at SDU’s Centre for Human Interactivity (Steffensen, 2013; Trasmundi, 2020).
This is a method for observing how individuals and teams solve problems in everyday settings. It has been applied in healthcare, aviation safety, and higher education (Baggs and Steffensen, 2024; Trasmundi et al., 2024; Trasmundi and Steffensen, 2016).
Preparation
Data
Do you have your own data that you would like to bring to the workshop and analyse using methods from cognitive ethnography and/or cognitive event analysis.
If so, please send us a short description of the data (not more than 300 words).
Send the description to Edward Baggs at ebag@sdu.dk by May 30, 2025.
Readings
Participants should read the following three texts ahead of the course.
Baggs, E. & Steffensen, S. V. (2025). The ecological social psychology of aviation disasters. Ecological Psychology , 37(1), 66-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2024.2365762 download pdf
Trasmundi, S. B., & Steffensen, S. V. (2016). Meaning emergence in the ecology of dialogical systems. Psychology of Language and Communication, 20(2), 154–181. https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2016-0009 download pdf
Trasmundi, S. B., Baggs, E., Toro, J., & Steffensen, S. V. (2024). Expertise in non-well-defined task domains: The case of reading. Social Epistemology, 38(1), 13–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691 728.2023.2266690 download pdf
Program
Wednesday June 18, 2025 Location: DIAS Seminar Room, SDU Odense Campus
0930-1000 Introduction: What is a task? (EB)
1000-1030 What is cognitive ethnography? (SBT)
1030-1100 Break
1100-1145 What is cognitive event analysis? (SVS)
1145-1300 Lunch
1300-1530 Participants work on mini projects
1530-1600 Break
1600-1700 Presentation of project work