Whether you're a business, public sector organisation, an individual or a community, our research can be informing and empowering. It allows you to gain a rich insight that will support your strategic, policy or tactical decision making or can be used to measure the effectiveness of programmes, projects and processes.

Wairua Consulting offers some particular strengths within our research activity:

• Our significant project and research management experience means that projects are clearly scoped and managed.
• We perform both qualitative and quantitative research using the latest digital recording and data analysis software.
• Our services include surveys (online and hard copy), focus groups and interviews.
• We can evaluate the effectiveness of your projects and policies.
• We partner with our clients to design research that adds real value and which is outcome based.
• We focus on gaining understanding that leads to transformation.
• We can assist organisations to prepare proposals for research funding and build their own research capability.
• We can help you develop and improve research processes and knowledge management practices.

We work with you to scope projects and develop effective research questions. We carry out reviews of literature (using credible academically validated databases and journals) and can deliver the results in a range of effective ways to maximise their impact.

Our research projects are tailor-made to help us gather, analyse and synthesize the data needed to help you make the right decision. We are committed to participant-led research because we believe that words convey a more powerful story, particularly when they are captured directly from the people involved.

Good quality research and evaluation underpins good decision making. The sheer volume of information available today can be daunting and distracting. Wairua Consulting undertakes research and evaluation to support your organisation and stakeholder needs. Our skills in qualitative and quantitative research provide our clients with the opportunity to gain a strategic insight into important situations, environments or technologies.

Visit our publications page for a range of reports, white papers and research papers

Community and government

Our research informs and evaluates policy and strategy relating to the use of ICTs. We are actively engaged in research and evaluation of community informatics initiatives at both operational and strategic/policy levels. We have a strong focus on electronic democracy, government and governance (eDemocracy, eGovernment and eGovernance).

Business and management

Our work focuses on how business and those that support business use the internet effectively to do business, grow business and manage issues of compliance.

Health & health informatics

On the technology side, our experience covers issues of data quality and evaluating health informatics programmes. Beyond that we also undertake research, consultancy and presentations relating to mental health and health issues for migrants and refugee communities.

Researching diverse communities

Our understanding of community development, grounded approach to research and use of new technologies means that we can be responsive to and engaged with communities. We believe in research that returns value back in to the host community and our focus is always one of engaging with all our stakeholders to achieve the best outcome for all.

Research management and design

Our experience will help you develop sound research plans and processes for managing research projects and teams. Combining our leadership and strategic planning skills with our research experience means that Wairua Consulting can assist educational institutes, public agencies, not for profits and even businesses develop and implement their research strategy so that research underpins good decision making.

We can design effective frameworks for managing outcomes-based research within your organisation and develop effective knowledge management practices that capture, disseminate and realise maximum value from research projects. Our services include the management of intellectual capital and development of commercialisation paths.

We can help you develop your research management strategy and design and implement processes that aid with research portfolio management for both fund-holding agencies and research-active organisations. This work can include designing effective competitive funding strategies, streamlining the proposal and review process and developing research management processes.