We work with: Specialist partners
We partner with values-aligned researchers, specialist agencies and people to enable them to use social innovation practices, and examples and case studies in their work.
Bridging the worlds of academia with day-to-day life
We partner with universities, research institutes, think tanks and peak bodies, bridging the often disparate worlds of research and academia with the day-to-day realities of people and communities. We co-create safe enough and brave enough spaces for theory and evidence to be meaningfully adapted to context, and for the lived-knowledge and experience of people to be translated into academic rigour.
We can work together to:
- Design processes that shape influential theories and practices.
- Integrate co-design capability into your team, work and offerings
- Develop knowledge products, particularly those that build the evidence base for peer-to-peer responses, impact networks and social R&D.
Our experience
We’ve helped dozens of partners ensure that their research and data-gathering is meaningful, ethical, and applied. Recent work includes:
Evaluation: Over 20 joint projects over 10 years with Clear Horizon, Australia’s largest independent evaluation agency, enabling them to integrate co-design and community-led expertise into their work.
Social research: Over five joint projects over five years with Social Research Centre (ANU), who specialise in research with and about marginalised and vulnerable communities, supporting them to integrate qualitative insights as a complement to quantitative research.
Research: Partnerships with Adelaide University to develop insight and evidence in relation to TACSI’s Family by Family program, including partnering with BetterStart to develop an innovative quasi-experimental evaluation and an exploration of how care flows through the program using both ethnographic and visual arts methods
Featured case study:
Validating peer-to-peer impact
Context: While peer-to-peer models are intuitively powerful, they often lack the hard evidence required for large-scale government commissioning. We partnered with the University of Adelaide’s BetterStart team to better understand the impact of our Family by Family program.
Scale: A multi-year, quasi-experimental study tracking family outcomes over a 24-month period.
The work: We integrated ethnographic and qualitative insights into a formal research framework, allowing researchers to observe how care flows through participants while maintaining a rigorous control-group methodology.
The outcome: The study provided statistically significant evidence of a 44% relative reduction in the risk of children entering out-of-home care. This shows that this partnership successfully translated community wisdom into a peer-reviewed evidence base that is now used globally.
Our partnerships include
Social Research Centre (ANU)
Over 5 joint projects over 5 years with Social Research Centre (ANU), who specialise in research with and about marginalised and vulnerable communities Australia’s x, y, z, , supporting them to integrate qualitative insights as a complement to quantitative research.
Adelaide University and Betterstart
We partnered with Adelaide University and Betterstart to develop insight and evidence in relation to TACSI’s Family by Family program including partnering with BetterStart to develop an innovative quasi-experimental evaluation and an exploration of how care flows through the program using both ethnographic and visual arts methods
Clear Horizon
We’ve partnered with Clear Horizon Over 20 joint projects over 10 years with Clear Horizon, Australia’s largest independent evaluation agency, enabling them to integrate co-design and community-led expertise into their work.
Third Camp
Third Camp is an Aboriginal led and owned organisation led by Jade Kartanya Brook who is proudly Kaurna and Nharangga with ties to Ngarrindjeri and Barkindji Country. They’ve shared Welcome to Countries and workshops with the broader TACSI network, and Jade has brought her expertise, living experience and wisdom to co-facilitate workshops in the TACSI Learning Hub.
Let’s combine our expertise to shift systems at scale
Whether you’re ready to design processes that shape influential theories and practices or develop products that build the evidence base for social innovation in your work, we’re ready to collaborate.
We also work with
TACSI
Learning
Hub
Deepen your and your team’s skills and understanding of social innovation – and your confidence to put it into practice. We run short and long courses for all skill levels in areas including: co-design, coproduction, allyship and working in systems.