Research & Insight
ABOUT
Research, evidence, and analysis to
shape services, strategy and policy.
Bringing traditional, tried and tested methodologies, together with new thinking, innovation and best practice, our research and analysis skills are wide-ranging, inclusive and embed ethical practice.
SERVICE
Bespoke evidence reviews and mapping exercises:
- Rapid, in-depth, or structured reviews, tailored to needs and timescales
- Horizon scanning, policy reviews, and strategy reviews
- Gather, review and make sense of academic literature, policy developments, statistical data and more
- Engage strategic, operational, and lived experience stakeholders
- Map services, stakeholders, and partnerships, identifying gaps and duplication.
Designing and co-designing traditional and creative research tools:
- Interviews, focus groups and surveys
- Observation and ethnographic methods
- Creative methods aimed at children and young people such as body mapping, zine making, and using games to generate discussion
- Interactive workshops and communities of practice
- Storytelling, experience and journey mapping
- Training people to conduct peer research and community research
- Ensuring tools are ethical and trauma-informed.
Robust and insightful analysis that supports forward planning:
- Designing and using analytical frameworks
- Coding qualitative data (including through use of NVivo)
- Propensity score matching
- Multi-variate analysis and cross tabulations
- Descriptive statistics
- Statistical analysis and modelling
- Economic modelling
- Quasi-experimental design
- SWOT and PESTLE analysis
- Prioritising data through RAG ratings, maturity matrix, impact and feasibility matrix
- Making forward plans through road mapping and action plans
- End-to-end strategy development.
CONTACT
Making social
impact possible.
That’s Rocket
Science.
Get in touch to find out how our research and insights can help you make social impact possible.