Michael Hales

[su_tabs][su_tab title=”About”]Michael Hales does research on the work done by artifacts (notably representational artifacts and representational technologies) in knowledge work, design and management – all of these interpreted to include activity by ‘ordinary’ members of organisations. He is a member of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex, and the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick. Originally a chemical engineer (and after that, an operations research analyst and an innovation policy analyst in regional government) he has become a sociologist of work interaction, via excursions (incursions?) in several disciplines: historical studies of science and technology, Marxian labour-process analysis of white- collar work, Raymond Williams’ ‘cultural materialism’, human-centred design and ethnographic approaches to computer supported cooperative work. [/su_tab] [su_tab title=”Contact”]e: N/A[/su_tab][/su_tabs]