Our collective has a proven track record of designing and carrying out rigorous mixed methods, qualitative, and ethnographically-informed research and evaluation in the global South. Our staff and consultants are skilled at conducting high quality, collaborative research on topics related to sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, violence and power, mental health and wellbeing, gender and sexuality, race, migration, livelihoods, and climate justice.
As researchers, we are experienced in the ethical practice of research with marginalised groups and people living in contexts of adversity. We are also skilled practitioners of participatory, peer-led research methodology, working in partnership with individuals affecting and affected by issues of relevance to research, so that they are agents in the full research and knowledge translation process– from design through implementation, analysis, and dissemination/engagement.
Knowledge translation is the foundation of all we do at Pivot Collective – from research design, to research implementation, analysis, contextualization, and engagement. We engage at all points of the cycle, placing particular importance on fostering knowledge translation processes that ensure meaningful participation and ownership of research findings.
As a team of researchers and practitioners who have direct experience in grassroots, community-based service delivery, advocacy, program implementation, teaching, participatory facilitation, and academic research, we work together with our partners and clients to ensure that research and learning are effectively translated into co-owned, contextualised, and actionable insights and strategies that meet project objectives and lay clear pathways forward for desired growth and change. We also work to ensure that insights can be effectively shared with diverse audiences.
As a collective of accomplished authors, we offer client-partners support in the development of scientific peer-reviewed journal articles, organisational technical publications and “grey” literature, conference abstracts, as well as more conversational pieces such as blog posts and multimedia pieces. When possible, we facilitate collaborative “writeshop” processes with client co-authors to support the conceptualization and development of shared knowledge products. In this way, we also work to support co-authors in the Global South to ensure that their expertise and insights are reflected and credited in the global evidence-base. Our team also includes media and communications experts, artists and graphic designers, who support our technical teams to ensure that final knowledge products are visually engaging and responsive to diverse learning styles.
The field of Implementation Science has demonstrated that a key factor in evidence-based interventions’ sustainability and impact is the degree to which they are adaptable. This brings with it wide-reaching implications for implementation actors and decision-makers, and the role of collaborative evidence and learning in implementing projects. We partner with our clients and their diverse array of actors to collectively lay the groundwork for an adaptive footing, ensuring that the processes that result are feasible, co-owned, and user-centered. Through the adaptive implementation processes that our clients build with our support, teams come together to share in evidence-based optimization of their interventions, delivering impact and insights to advance their projects’ and their health systems’ goals.
As a team of researchers and practitioners who have direct experience in grassroots, community-based service delivery, advocacy, program implementation, teaching, participatory facilitation, and academic research, we work together with our partners and clients to ensure that research and learning are effectively translated into co-owned, contextualised, and actionable insights and strategies that meet project objectives and lay clear pathways forward for desired growth and change. We also work to ensure that insights can be effectively shared with diverse audiences.
As human-centered design has increasingly gained traction in the health and development space, we have also witnessed implementing teams’ desire for support to ensure their design processes have meaningful and transparent links to evidence and to program processes. Our collective includes researchers and practitioners seasoned in partnering with design-based projects to ensure that the interventions they develop and implement are substantively informed by and tied to relevant global evidence and theory, and thoroughly documented to enable knowledge sharing with the larger community of practice. As practitioners experienced in supporting and collaborating with both implementing organisations and design firms, we are uniquely suited to support this.
As a collective of technical experts, we are also pleased to support our clients through technical assistance services. Our team members are experienced advisors, having worked for decades in global health and development. We are skilled at meeting implementing teams where they are, rapidly gaining the context and situational understanding necessary to run with you as you strategize and implement.
