Research in practice

Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure. This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use […]

This case study of research in practice describes how in 2014 Oxfam staff researched and developed a powerful killer fact ‘ that the 85 richest people owned as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people ‘ and how this triggered international media coverage, political commentary, and record-level website hits.

Mixed-methods research for evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, is widely recognized for its potential. It also poses challenges, especially for NGOs with limited resources and capacity for undertaking complex programmes of research and evaluation. This study describes one of Oxfam’s first attempts to integrate qualitative research into an effectiveness review that was based primarily […]