
Hello!
I’m Lucy Blakemore, a qualitative research and education specialist based in Sydney, Australia. Get in touch if you need someone who asks great questions, designs creative research, has intense listening skills and can summarise almost anything on a single whiteboard.
I take messy, ambiguous human data and extract insights and frameworks we can apply to organisational challenges in practical ways. I’ve worked in both client-side and agency roles and collaborate on projects directly, or as an extra pair of hands for busy insights teams.
I love working across diverse projects and sectors, and specialise in international education and the behavioural drivers informing digital innovation.
Consulting services

Research and insights
Defining research needs and designing creative approaches to meet objectives
Expert interviewing, group moderation and workshop design/facilitation
Collaborative analysis, compelling presentations and communication of insights

Insights into action
Surfacing and summarising research you already have, so you get more value from it
Exploring how to share your insights and get people talking
Working with you on practical ways to apply insights across projects and innovation work

Build research skills
Training and guidance in core research capabilities for non-researchers
Creating guidelines and templates to help you run your own research projects
Practical tools for better conversations, active listening, analysis and mindmapping

Mind mapping helps you clear the fog and focus on key concepts and connections between ideas. Creating mind maps is a process of intense listening and analysis, leaving you with a compelling visual record you can use for recall, revision and as a springboard for creativity and action.
Mapping as a thinking tool
Take notes, revise topics, organise, plan, braindump and brainstorm. Use them to untangle complex concepts that refuse to be tamed with linear tables, lists and paragraphs!

Education and Covid-19
A condensed summary of themes relating to student experience, education and the global pandemic. Draws on material from two webinar events and written articles from industry experts.

Shifting to Online
Informal notes from a working session identifying goals and objectives for a face-to-face consulting company creating an online presence. The outcome was the development of an online learning portal and a revamp of the existing website.
[Guest post] Just Enough Research: in practice
Just Enough Research: in theory
In Praise of In-Person
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