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Research and Evidence

Build the evidence needed to understand an important question and act on it. SustematiQ designs and conducts research that helps organisations understand complex markets, stakeholders, programmes, technologies, and societal questions, then translates the findings into a form that can support real decisions.

Why it matters

Important decisions are often made with fragmented or incomplete evidence.

Useful evidence is often distributed across academic literature, institutional reports, market information, stakeholder experience, internal knowledge, and primary research. Without a structured approach, important signals can be missed, assumptions can become mistaken for evidence, and research can produce information without improving the decision it was intended to support.

What we can investigate

Research can be designed around questions concerning markets, stakeholder needs, technology adoption, programme performance, ecosystem conditions, emerging opportunities, societal effects, user experience, institutional readiness, research impact, or another clearly defined decision problem.

How SustematiQ helps

Choose the evidence and methods that fit the question.

Evidence reviews: Identify, assess, and synthesise relevant academic, institutional, market, policy, and other credible sources.

Research design: Define the question, evidence requirements, relevant stakeholders, methods, limitations, and analytical approach before data collection begins.

Primary research: Conduct interviews, surveys, workshops, stakeholder research, or other appropriate methods where existing evidence is insufficient.

Qualitative and quantitative analysis: Structure and analyse evidence using methods appropriate to the question and available data.

Evidence synthesis: Connect findings across sources to identify patterns, disagreement, uncertainty, gaps, and implications.

Decision translation: Convert the research into reports, briefs, frameworks, recommendations, workshops, or other formats appropriate to the people who need to act on it.

What you can take away

Evidence that is structured around the question it needs to answer.

Research report presenting the evidence, findings, methods, assumptions, and limitations.

Evidence review or research synthesis bringing fragmented knowledge into a structured picture.

Stakeholder or user research findings showing perspectives, needs, experiences, and areas of disagreement.

Decision brief translating the most relevant evidence into implications, uncertainties, options, and possible next steps.

Research framework or evidence base that can support future programme, policy, innovation, funding, or product decisions.

Research impact evidence, where relevant, connecting research with users, beneficiaries, pathways, adoption conditions, and observable outcomes.

Start with the question that needs better evidence.

Tell us what you need to understand and what decision the research needs to support. We can help define the evidence required and an appropriate way to investigate it.