Helping to understand how change happens

We are a small not-for-profit consultancy founded by the authors of the Qualitative Impact Protocol, known as QuIP. This approach was developed as a simple and cost-effective way to gather, analyse and present feedback from stakeholders about drivers of change as they see them, including the impact of specific interventions. We support organisations to design and test theories of change, using people’s lived experiences to verify or challenge assumptions about how change happens. We are specialists in qualitative data analysis, using an approach called causal mapping.

Training & support

We run regular online and face to face training on all aspects of QuIP, from study design to coding and analysis.

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Consultancy

We offer consultancy to undertake primary QuIP research, working with a network of trained researchers around the world.

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Resources

Browse our extensive library of free resources on QuIP, including simple guidelines, published articles and example reports from clients.

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Bath SDR – supporting these organisations

Putting your respondents’ voices at the heart of evaluation. Championing a new benchmark for evidence of social impact.

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Resources

QuIP briefing paper

An accessible methodological guide which outlines the QuIP approach in the context of other similar evaluation methods, the best place to start!

Attributing Development Impact: The qualitative impact protocol case book

This book contains reflections on real QuIP case studies and detailed guidelines. Available as a free e-book.

QuIP compared to thirty other approaches to impact evaluation

Brief overview comparison table taken from the book Attributing Development Impact
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Qualitative data analysis software

Bath SDR is a sister company of Causal Map Ltd, a new online research tool developed as a way to code, analyse and visualise fragments of information about what causes what. Our team have worked closely with Steve Powell to develop the software and Bath SDR use Causal Map for all QuIP data analysis.

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The Assessing Rural Transformations research was sponsored by the UK Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council - grant number ES/J018090/1.

The follow-up work on disseminating the QuIP was sponsored by the UK Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council - grant number ES/NO15649/1.

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