Straightforward, authentic and equitable. We are friendly social researchers and evaluators who want to help good people do great things better.
DO Research.
Hi there! We are DO Research
Want to know if you are actually making a positive change? Need help setting up a measurement plan for future? That’s what we do.
We have extensive experience of doing research for place-based programmes, with communities, improving participation and access for better policies, programmes, and places.
So, can we help you?
Evaluation
Maybe you are receiving grant funding or social investment for your charity, grassroots campaign, or local organisation. As part of that funding, you need to show the difference that you are making to your community and want to work with someone who shares your values and wants to help you tell your story with integrity, rigour, and creativity. We’ll even help you make your very own ‘Impact Tree’.
Impact coaching
If you like getting more hands-on, we can also work with you by the day or hour to coach you through a project, from inception to report-writing. We have many interactive and easy-to-learn tools that, following quick training, you can take away and use with colleagues and beneficiaries to create a truly participatory experience. Get in touch, even if you just need a ‘second brain’ for an hour, or someone to independently assess your approach.
Social research
Do you have a question (or many) that you need help answering? Do you want to work with a values-led organisation that uses creative participatory methods and with years of experience in community-led research? We can help you define clear questions, set up easy-to-understand methods, analyse the evidence carefully and robustly, and share the answers in a format that you’ll look forward to digging into.
Quick audit
Perhaps you have been collecting data and evidence for a while, but now it’s all a bit overwhelming, all over the place, and not really helping you to answer important questions. We can help you make sense of what you have, streamline your approach so you are only measuring what matters, and put you quickly back on track with great systems, clear questions, easy analysis, and able to quickly make sense of what you know. We have numbers people, survey people, and people people, so just get in touch.
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