Ms Karen Clarke Contact Details	<Image to go here>
Research Associate in the Computing Department at Lancaster University. I am an ethnographer carrying out ethnomethodologically informed studies of Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW). Currently working on PA2: The Impact of Organisational Culture and Trust on Dependability; PA3: Design for Dependability & PA7: Dependable Ubiquitous Computing in the Home (collaborative work with the Equator IRC). My research interests include studies of IT use in work and in the 'home', human factors in system design and methods in social enquiry. For the last two years my research has focussed on Healthcare Informatics. My PhD is a critique of claims to a feminist methodology. Previous related research experience includes work on the ESRC 'Virtual Society' programme - the 'Virtual Ethnography' project at the University of Leeds which examined the use of technology in sixteen homes using video recording techniques and conventional ethnographic methods.