About the consultant

The principal of Inclusive Research by Design is Logan D. A. Williams. She has a multi-disciplinary background in Mechanical Engineering and the interdisciplinary social science field called Science and Technology Studies (STS). Because of Logan's previous work on gender-mainstreaming at UNEP, training as a disability justice ally, and past research and teaching on science, technology, race and gender, she is particularly well-prepared to enhance the inclusivity of: technology designs, research protocols, research team practices, or research problem selection. Logan (and her co-author Thomas Woodson) invented an auditing technique to address inequality in science and technology called "inclusivity mainstreaming" which you can read about in the journal Minerva (or as a pre-print on SocArcXiv).

Previously, Logan taught university courses for four years at Michigan State University and one year at University of Maryland, College Park. Now, she is training business professionals, technology professionals, artists and designers to utilize inclusivity mainstreaming in her series of courses on inclusive technology design. These new courses emphasize anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, or anti-transphobic approaches to creating new devices, infrastructures, and software.

Logan's research methods are qualitative and typically include interviews, content analysis, and observation. She has used these methods previously to write evaluative reports for the United Nations Environment Program, Aravind Eye Care System, and the Arab League of Nations Khadija Network.

As a consultant, Logan is excited to use her writing, developmental editing, and evaluating skills to help other scientists and engineers mainstream inclusivity into their research projects, and demonstrate this work through high quality and informative: reports, publications, and grant applications. Considering that a twenty percent grant award rate is pretty high for an early career academic, during Logan's academic career she was on target with an award rate of 21% for 38 applications as a graduate student (2009-2012) and assistant professor (2013-2017).

Please note: She is particularly interested in supporting the academic careers of underrepresented minorities, women, and people from less economically developed countries.

Logan D. A. Williams

"My idea of a better ordered world is one in which ... there would be no profiteering from life or death"
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi addressing the Thirty-Fourth World Health Assembly in 1981

(from Nitsan Chorev's book The World Health Organization Between North and South Cornell University Press, 2012, p. 86)