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From PhD to UX Researcher: Perspectives from Google and Twitter
Tuesday May 3
12-1:30 PST
Join Jennifer Spencer, User Experience (UX) Researcher at Google (PhD in Sociology, UC Davis) and Simon Wolfe Taylor, Senior UX Researcher at Twitter (PhD in History, Columbia University) to hear about their transition from humanities/social sciences degrees to work in the tech field, and to see if this might be the right move for you. The speakers will describe their personal journeys and then turn to practical tips regarding transferable skills, what recruiters are looking for, interview tips, and more.
Jennifer Spencer is a User Experience Researcher at Google and lives and works in San Francisco. Before Google, she attended UC Davis to complete a PhD in Sociology and worked as a research assistant at the Energy Efficiency Institute. She plays a lot of bike polo and is helping develop the emerging international sport as the President of the North American Bike Polo Association.
Simon Taylor is a Pathfinding Strategy UX Researcher at Twitter, specializing in foundational and cross-org research. Trained as an ethnographer, with a PhD in History from Columbia University, he uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods to uncover foundational insights about who users are, what they want, and where they’re going.