Curious to see what we do?
Here are some examples of our work - whether you are looking for impact reports or collaboratively produced short films, we can work with you to ensure your data impacts the right people, the right way.
Young Digital Lives
Peer research with young people
In 2025, Social Research Reimagined and Hot Chocolate Trust worked with the Ada Lovelace Institute on peer research to understand young people’s digital lives.
A small group of digitally native young people from Dundee came together to be trained as peer researchers - exploring their own experience, co-designing research fieldwork and travelling the country gathering data, before coming home to co-analyse and make sense of what they found.
The Project
The peer researchers reconnected in the autumn of 2025 to create a visual snapshot of the many sights, sounds, thoughts and emotions they experienced during the whirlwind process of exploration, adventure and discovery as digital peer researchers.
This took the form of HAPPY HAPPY DOOM SCROLL: a beautiful zine full of photos, art, and words and is available to download here.
The Experience
The full report with research findings will be launched in spring 2026, at which point we will link here directly.
In the meantime, you can read about the project, and other research from the Nuffield Foundation’s wider Grown Up? Journeys to Adulthood programme at https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our-programmes/grown-up
The Findings
Alongside the Peer Research process, we collaborated with 10 young people, aged 20-24 in a dynamic creative interviewing process, where they reflected on the realities of their digital life through an open dialogue. Interviewer and Interviewee then edited the audio to reflect key themes, and worked with film-makers to visually represent their story.
These films will be published via the Ada Lovelace Institute YouTube channel and we will link here as soon we can - in the meantime, if you are interested in seeing examples of this work, please get in touch.
The Films
HEAR for YOU
Opening up spaces for women to safely explore spirituality
In the Autumn of 2022, the Angus, Dundee and Perthshire Methodist Circuit began to explore the possibility of developing a new service to support women at risk of sexual exploitation in Dundee, Scotland. We worked with the team through a period of scoping and review, gathering data from experts within the violence against women and girls sector across the UK. The data demonstrated a clear gap in current provision - a space where women can set the agenda and explore their lived experiences, including their experiences of faith. This was the start of the HEAR for YOU listening service.
We continue to support this work as a learning partner - meeting the team every 6 weeks for collective reflection to monitor progress, identify challenges and implement change. Our first annual report was published in the summer of 2025, drawing on in-depth interviews with practitioners from across Dundee. You can read the full report here.
Evaluation for Peacebuilding
Building evidence through participatory evaluations
We were contracted by Mensen Met Een Missie, a Dutch peacebuilding NGO to lead participatory baseline studies in seven countries. Over the course of 18 months, the evaluation ran 70 focus groups and 70 interviews with a total participation of 650+ people. The work established a baseline from which to monitor impact and identify change for a new 10-year funding programme.
This was a complex evaluation, working with participants experiencing repeated displacement, armed conflict, systemic discrimination and extreme violence. We were able to design and deliver the work in partnership with local teams, creating spaces for people to share their lived experiences and openly discuss attitudes towards other social groups.
The evaluation resulted in a detailed documentation of the realities of structural oppression - through listening to the experiences of oppressed groups we were able to build an understanding of the wide ranging ways that people experience and understand oppression within their unique contexts.
