We conduct feminist and participatory research that centers lived realities, challenges extractive approaches, and transforms knowledge into collective action.
We design and lead feminist evaluations, participatory studies, and qualitative analyses that center voices from the margins.
We facilitate sensemaking workshops and participatory data analysis that turns information into understanding.
We translate findings into usable frameworks, policies, and advocacy tools that strengthen programs and movements.
We strengthen research ecosystems by training organizations in participatory MEL, ethics, and participatory design.
Our Research Consulting Includes
Shape your organizational or thematic inquiry with participatory, feminist-led processes.
We engage communities, staff, and stakeholders in every step, from design to analysis, ensuring relevance, reflection, and impact.
Build learning and evaluation systems that measure what matters, care, growth, inclusion, and transformation, not just metrics.
We design and strengthen MEL systems that help teams reflect and adapt.
Move beyond data reports to deeper understanding.
Our facilitated sensemaking processes help teams interpret evidence, identify patterns, and turn insights into strategy.
Strengthen research accountability through feminist ethical frameworks, data governance systems, and reflexivity practices that prioritize wellbeing and consent.
Design, implement, or review your PSEAH frameworks using intersectional, trauma-informed, and survivor-centered principles.
Integrate gender and inclusion across your research, programming, and operations through feminist analysis and practical toolkits.
Develop intersectional DEI frameworks that go beyond compliance, creating cultures of belonging, accountability, and justice.
Our Ongoing Research
Consulting as a Collective
Consulting is often done in isolation, with individuals applying alone for work that increasingly requires multiple skills, perspectives, and forms of expertise. A consulting collective offers an alternative model, one where practitioners collaborate, share responsibility, and work together to deliver stronger, more thoughtful outcomes.
Aaraam’s Consulting Collective
Aaraam’s Consulting Collective brings together early- to mid-career practitioners who want to collaborate on consulting work rather than apply on their own. Members come together to apply for consultancies as a group, combining skills and experience across research, facilitation, strategy, learning, and related areas. Work is shared across the lifecycle of a project, from design and applications to delivery and reflection.
Email consult@aaraamstudios.org and cc aaraamstudios@gmail.com to confirm your interest and let us know you have submitted the form.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. If your application is aligned with Aaraam’s work, you will receive an email invitation to join the Consulting Collective within 2–4 weeks. Membership in the collective is dependent on active participation in collaborative work, applications, and shared learning.
The Collective is free to join, with opportunities prioritized for members who participate actively and collaboratively.
Together, we can build knowledge systems that inform, include, and inspire change.