Our key research strengths (see also our publications) are:

1. Participatory Analysis and Action Research with communities and agencies in urban and rural areas. We work most often alongside local people and organisations, drawing heavily on Participatory Appraisal and a variety of qualitative approaches to also build local research capacity.
2. Policy Research for agencies, government departments and international organisations and agencies
3. Programme and Project evaluation
4. Links between qualitative and quantitative methodologies

Mind the Gap staff and some associates also have significant research training and experience in:

• Ecological, forestry and natural resources sciences (notably ecological restoration, silviculture and soils), and
• Social anthropology, sociology (especially crime and deviance, and cultural aspects of natural resources management)
• Health care and management (in particular customary medicine and ‘traditional’ healing, mother and child health and family well-being in refugee or long-term emergency situations)
• Education (especially in evaluation and policy research