I am an independent researcher and programme evaluator, and co-founder and Director of Causal Map Ltd in Bath.
What I work on
- Causal mapping: coding what people say about what causes what, and building maps you can search and quote from. This is the main thing.
- AI for evaluation and social research: the Causal Map app, and QualiaInterviews, an AI interviewer.
- Theories of change, including the free Theorymaker app.
- Methods and reproducible research: reproducible reporting in R, rubrics, survey analysis.
- Projects and clients: every evaluation and research project since 2001, filterable by theme and organisation.
Elsewhere
LinkedIn is where I write most. I run two weekly newsletters there:
- Causal mapping, evaluation, AI, the methods one.
- Causal Map Highlights, useful, fun and sometimes amazing stories built from narrative data with the Causal Map app.
There is also the Causal Map company page.
- Causal Map Garden, where we write up the method as we go. Start with the summaries of our papers and chapters.
- PDFs of reports and publications
- Google Scholar and ResearchGate
- PhD
Bio
I was based in Sarajevo from 1997 to 2017 and did a lot of research in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Balkans. There I co-founded proMENTE social research. Before that I ran a series of academic and training projects for students and psychosocial professionals in South-East Europe, for the University of Munich with Prof. Willi Butollo.
I have worked in about 35 countries, mainly South-East Europe, South and South-East Asia and the Pacific, and sub-Saharan Africa, on topics from disaster response in Haiti and psychosocial programming after the 2004 tsunami to social capital in the former Soviet Union and counting stray dogs in Sarajevo. As a freelancer I often worked for international development and disaster recovery programmes, including several years as Lead Researcher and Statistician on the IFRC “Everyone counts” global reports.
My academic research was mainly in clinical psychology after war, covering post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth, mostly with colleagues in Sarajevo and Munich, especially Maria Hagl. My PhD sums that up. I studied philosophy, maths and psychology.
Now I live in Clevedon, near Bristol.
The rest of this site
There are some evaluation puzzles I use in teaching, and an attic of older posts that survived the various moves between blogging platforms. If you are looking for something ancient and cannot find it, write to me.