Our Partnerships
We value diversity in perspectives and believe that two heads are always better than one. We have developed a network of longstanding associates and partnerships with other organisations that bring the right expertise and valuable connections to our work and support meaningful engagement with diverse communities. We are always looking to build new relationships with organisations and expert associates. Please contact us if you would like to discuss a partnership.
Big Data
Taylor Fry
ARTD have worked closely with Taylor Fry on complex multi-year projects requiring big data analytics and actuarial modelling. Taylor Fry are leaders in quantitative modelling, using government administrative datasets to build models of people’s lifetime trajectories, including their expected outcomes and cost to government. Their work has been used across a broad range of sectors to assess project effectiveness and understand long-term fiscal impacts – and ultimately inform policy and build the case for tailored interventions.
Children and Families Sector
Social Care Solutions
When working on projects that intersect with the Child Protection system, we often partner with Social Care Solutions. As experts in the child protection industry, they bring a wealth of knowledge and skills to support our work in criminal justice, family and domestic violence, out of home care, and safer communities.
Disability Policy Sector
Engels Floyd & Associates
We often partner with Engels Floyd & Associates on disability sector projects. Sharon Floyd has decades of experience working closely with people with disability to develop and implement policy as well as mentoring people with disability through the Leaders for Tomorrow Program. Jen Engels has recognised expertise in quality standards and auditing of disability organisations and herself has lived experience of disability.
Information Access Group
When consulting with people with intellectual and cognitive disability, we work with our partner, The Information Access Group, to produce Easy Read information and consent forms and a consultation guide to enable people to share their views, without someone leading their responses. Easy Read is a method of presenting information in a way that is easy to understand. In its simplest form, it uses images to support text, a large font size and plenty of white space to increase readability. The Information Access Group specialise in producing communication materials that are easy to read and they have worked with a range of government organisations to make their consultation processes accessible.
Communications
Information Access Group
When consulting with people with intellectual and cognitive disability, we work with our partner, The Information Access Group, to produce Easy Read information and consent forms and a consultation guide to enable people to share their views, without someone leading their responses. Easy Read is a method of presenting information in a way that is easy to understand. In its simplest form, it uses images to support text, a large font size and plenty of white space to increase readability. The Information Access Group specialise in producing communication materials that are easy to read and they have worked with a range of government organisations to make their consultation processes accessible.
Design and Engagement
engage2
Citizen engagement is at the heart of a strong democracy. It enables governments to deliver policies and programs that respond to citizens’ needs. We work with engage2 when designing community and stakeholder engagement for policy and program development, and building the organisation’s capability for inclusive and purposeful engagement. We are also seeing opportunities for engagement to inform evaluation and evaluation to inform engagement.
Sticky Design Studio
Co-design and systems thinking are increasingly part of our work in public policy. Through considered engagement, co-design helps to build a deep understanding of people's lived experience and the contexts they live and work in. This helps us to develop more meaningful and effective policies and programs for people. We work with Jax Wechsler at Sticky Design Studio to use co-design and systems thinking, bringing insight to the complexity and engaging people with lived experience in the creation of new possibilities.
Monitoring and Benchmarking
Evaluation Solutions
We have a 10-year partnership with Evaluation Solutions, an innovative consulting company specialising in online surveys and data collection. We combine our understanding of data system design, with their secure and agile online system to develop and pilot and refine monitoring systems. We have worked with Evaluation Solutions to deliver complex online surveys, work activity tools, and performance monitoring systems for government-funded programs.
SmarterSoft
We have partnered with SmarterSoft, an innovative technology service provider delivering customisable cloud-based data collection, validation and workflow solutions, for a number of ARTD projects. Their data management platform is proven in the government, not-for-profit (NGO) and private sectors and their software solutions are fully supported and hosted in Australia.
Realist Evaluation
Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
This partnership combines our skills in public policy with the Northern Institute’s network of associates, including Indigenous researchers, and leverages our shared realist approach to understanding the value of public policy and programs. The partnership includes Professorial Research Fellow Gill Westhorp who leads the Realist Research Evaluation and Learning Initiative (RREALI).
Economic Analysis
Balmoral Group
We partner with Balmoral Group Australia (BGA) to provide an interdisciplinary approach for projects with a focus on economic analysis. BGA bring their financial, economic, policy and data analysis capabilities and cross-sectoral experience to provide practical information to decision makers on complex and often confusing issues related to economics. Their economic insights and geo-spatial modelling capabilities have been used by state and federal government to inform economic development strategies and approaches to managing natural resources.