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If you follow me on Instagram, you will see that for the past few months I have been sharing almost only ‘reading views’. I love reading, I even took a speed reading course when I started my PhD, but reading academic literature (for the first time in your life) and finding structure in what you read, that’s something else. <\/p>\n\n

In this blog, I will give an update on all this reading and a first attempt at that structure, or, what we also call: the fuzzy front-end of research. With reading tips for you of course!<\/p>\n\n

Parallel disciplines<\/h2>\n\n

When I started this PhD research<\/a>, I knew I wanted to look from two disciplines: design and public administration. Later, a third was added: services. Because I keep hopping between areas of research, it sometimes feels a little unsteady for me. Now how does this belong together? From what lens will I now examine? Should I actually choose one or can I combine them? And how do you know when you have everything?<\/p>\n\n

With each discipline, I am in contact with an academic institute.<\/p>\n\n

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  1. Design is of course my home base, Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. At CTF at Karlstad University, where I regularly work for a week, they know all about services. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. And I ‘flirt’ a bit with the USBO (Faculty of Public Administration) of Utrecht University and the Faculty of Administrative Law of the University of Groningen. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

    I see more and more clearly where these areas overlap. Fortunately, plenty has been written about those crossovers as well. <\/p>\n\n

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    Drawing of three subject areas combined so you can see how they overlap.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

    Designing services: service design<\/h2>\n\n

    This is, of course, a bit of a home game. This blog is full of all kinds of methods, case histories and also a bit of theory on how to design services, how to test them with users, and how to include your organization. In the blog “The Structure of Research”<\/a>, for example, I summarized 99 blogs about our design research team at the Executive Agency of Education and how we proceeded. <\/p>\n\n

    It is a feast of recognition to dive into the literature on this topic. Most of what I learned in practice helps me so reading about it instantly clicks. If you like to brush up on some theoretical background as well, here are a few of my favorites:<\/p>\n\n