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What We Offer

We do qualitative research and evaluation for third sector organisations. We specialise in working with mental health, arts and health, and social care charities. 

 

Everything we do is empirically valid, ethically sound, and entirely co-produced. Oh, and we also do literature reviews. We love a good literature review.

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What is qualitative research?

  • It’s about finding things out

  • It’s about creating new knowledge

  • It uses words - and sometimes images, or creativity - rather than numbers

  • It explores and describes rather than trying to measure

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What is a literature review?

  • It’s an “I read it so you don’t have to” summary of all the policy and research which has already been published on your topic

  • It’s the conventional way of establishing your research question whilst ensuring that someone hasn’t already attempted the same thing

  • It informs the start of your research proposal and is useful in persuading people to fund your study

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What is qualitative evaluation?

  • It’s about establishing whether an organisation (or service, or project…) is achieving its aims, and about whether it’s achieving those aims ethically and cost-effectively

  • It’s about whether an organisation is reaching the people it’s aiming to reach, and about whether it’s accessible and relevant to members of historically more marginalised and excluded groups

  • It’s about understanding how service users (or clients, or patients, or citizens…) experience and feel about the organisation

  • It’s about discovering what is working, what isn’t, and what could be done better

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What is co-production?

It's a model of learning and of research within which citizens across the barriers of age or professional status work together collaboratively and democratically to create knowledge to make their shared world a more equal and equitable place* 

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*Beresford P., Public participation in health and social care: exploring the co-production of knowledge. Frontiers in Sociology. 2019;3:41.

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What is co-produced qualitative research?

  • It’s about dismantling institutional power structures, and about enabling participants to collaborate alongside researchers to design and deliver and own the research democratically together

  • It’s about using creative methods, and about experimenting with the arts to discover innovative ways to find things out or creative new knowledge

  • It’s not just about talking but about thinking and doing; it’s about social change, and about making a difference

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What is co-produced qualitative evaluation?

  • It’s about acknowledging and valuing the lived experience, the knowledge, and the expertise of service users, about using this as a starting point

  • It’s about using creative methods, and about experimenting with the arts to discover innovative ways to find things out or creative new knowledge

  • It’s about placing the interests of service users about the needs of the organisation or its managers

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