We offer a range of services to meet our aims. These include:

Evaluation and Research

Design and deliver realist style evaluations for social programmes, which take account of 'what works', 'in what particular circumstances', 'for which groups of people' and 'why'. We use a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods and focus on outputs, outcomes and impact.

Develop evaluation frameworks that can shape the development and delivery of programmes across organisations and build an effective evidence base.

Support practitioners to reflect on their work and build the evaluation capacity within organisations through the use of simple tools and learning workshops.

Carry out a range of research activities such as focus groups, questionnaires, interviews, literature reviews and analysis of data.

Strategy development

Support the development of strategies in and across organisational systems through vision planning, stakeholder mapping, writing position papers and website content.

Design and deliver strategies for engaging users of services, patients, carers and the wider public, in order to influence organisational design and support the co-production and co-delivery of services.

Develop project management, project planning and stakeholder analysis processes for delivering projects that have clear outcomes and can track change.

Implementation planning

Design and deliver implementation strategies, for example in health inequalities and midlife healthy ageing programmes, through the application of evidence-based service improvement methods.
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Scaling up of pilot initiatives through developing implementation frameworks, facilitating learning workshops, and producing guidance documents for different stakeholder audiences.

Carry out comprehensive health policy mapping and analysis in order to position programmes in the policy agenda.

Design and manage practitioner networks and communities of practice that support reflective practice and spread learning of 'what works' through the system.