ABSTRACT
In recent years, anthropologists have increasingly elected or have had little choice but to obtain research or research-related work in a variety of organizational settings. Furthermore, as the sites of knowledge production and consumption have changed, anthropologists will increasingly be located within organizations or funded by non-academic institutions which have their own agenda that constrains the autonomy of the researcher. This chapter briefly describes the Computer Access project and then provides an organizational checklist which researchers may find useful in order to understand the context in which they are working. The author illustrates how the checklist would have helped her by reference to the Computer Access project. The project was the brainchild of a non-governmental organization which the author calls Voluntary Services Council who successfully managed to obtain a grant of half a million pounds from a borough council.
