Correspondence
Write to the lab.
The lab is small and we read everything that comes in. This page exists so people who land on the site can get a message to us without hunting for an email. We typically reply within a week. Don't expect a sales pitch back, there's nothing to buy. This is correspondence, not a contact form for a consulting firm.
What people write about
Roughly four categories, in descending order of how often:
i. Citation & reuse
Researchers, faculty, and graduate students who want to cite a working report, adapt a method for their own population, or use a card-sort instrument. Always welcome, license is CC BY-NC 4.0, and we'd love to know where the work travels.
ii. Prospective collaborators
People working on adjacent problems, narrative identity, reflective interfaces, design-based research, career development, who want to compare notes or co-author. Especially welcome from labs studying populations we don't reach.
iii. Students & field practitioners
Students who want to try a tool or workshop themselves, and career-services or student-affairs practitioners who want to run something in their setting. We'll point you to what's open-access and what's still being piloted.
Pushback especially welcome
The lab is wrong about things on a regular basis, that's part of what design-based research is for. If you've read a working report, a field note, or a method write-up and think the claim is overreaching, the evidence is thin, or the framing is missing something important, please write. We've revised more papers and retired more components from external pushback than from internal review.
Send a message
Or write directly: seth.looper@gmail.com · Typical reply time: ~one week.