CENSE Research + Design offers a range of services to support health and human services at becoming more effective at what they do through design. This leads to enhanced innovation processes, better communication with their audiences, and drawing the best knowledge from their work and transform it into actionable strategy and products.
We do this in the following areas:
Communications, Knowledge Translation and Social Media: Getting the message right and delivering it to the right audience is a challenge in a crowded media environment. CENSE Research + Design provides consultation and training in social media use and strategy development aimed at creating capacity for effective knowledge translation for research, practice and policy development. We help you get the best of what you know into the hands of those who can use it.
Stakeholder and Public Engagement: CENSE Research + Design has extensive experience in group facilitation and network development. Our CoNEKTR model of engagement brings together social organizing approaches like Open Space Technology, World Cafe method and Unconferences with social media in a process that brings together diverse stakeholders and provides an organizing framework to engage an audience and create dialogue for action. Whether it is hosting a meeting, forming a network, or developing a community of practice, CENSE Research + Design can assist your organization in creating an effective forum for sharing knowledge and ideas.
Research + Evaluation: CENSE Research + Design associates bring experience in multi-method research and evaluation models with specialization in design research and developmental evaluation. Qualitative methods like ethnography and Grounded Theory to quantiative methods such as network analysis and social survey research are among the approaches we use in our research . Our research services also includes development of reviews of the literature, development of background papers, rapid / realist reviews, knowledge syntheses and systematic reviews.
Strategic Foresight + Innovation Development: CENSE Research + Design works with organizations to develop systems to foster innovation and produce rapid uptake of knowledge into practice. As part of its service suite, we offer consultation on the development, assessment, and evaluation of strategies to increase social innovation within organizations, networks and coalitions. Our team includes accredited Cognitive Edge practitioners who can further apply methods to help groups find new connections between ideas and concepts and to build an organizational culture to support innovation.
Service Design & Identity Communication: Knowing who you are, what you do, and communicating that clearly to your clients, partners and funders is part of doing your best work. We assist organizations define and express their identity through their programs and communications. Drawing on proven program planning models, service design strategies, brand development, behaviour change theory and research evidence we work with clients and their stakeholders to create products and impressions that are congruent with the goals of the organization, grounded in the best evidence, and effectively meet the demands of the client and their audience.
Health Promotion & Behaviour Change Consulting: Changing how we work and the manner in which we go from one state to another is a major feature of public health. CENSE Research + Design brings more than 20 years of research and practice experience in behaviour change on issues of chronic disease prevention, tobacco control, nutrition and food systems change. From developing programs to evaluating the impact of interventions, CENSE Research + Design can help.
To inquire about our services please email us at: info@cense.ca
or call: +1.416.854.3805 (Toronto area) or +1.877.759.9905 (Toll free)