Partnerships
We partner with foundations, universities, agencies and companies to answer questions that matter across borders — on terms that keep our findings independent.
Six kinds of partnership
Each begins with a shared question and a written scope. The structure differs; the standard for evidence and disclosure does not.
Co-publication
Research partnerships
Joint studies and co-authored reports with universities and research councils, with shared methodology review and open data wherever licensing allows.
Data
Data-sharing agreements
Documented access to administrative or licensed data, with clear terms on use, privacy, retention and attribution set out before work begins.
Funding
Grants & core funding
Core, programme and project support from foundations and public funders — disclosed in the funding line of every publication it supports.
Commission
Commissioned research
Independent market and policy studies for business, investors and public bodies, delivered under our standard editorial-independence terms.
Convening
Convening & events
Joint briefings, seminars and roundtables that bring evidence to decision-makers, co-hosted with partners and advisory networks.
Fellowships
Fellowships & placements
Doctoral placements and visiting fellowships that build methods capacity and widen the pool of researchers working on shared questions.
From first call to published finding
A partnership follows the same disciplined path as any Institute study, so the evidence stands on its own once it is public.
Initial conversation
We discuss your question, timeline and what independent evidence can — and cannot — establish. No obligation, and no charge for a first scoping call.
Scoping & agreement
We agree a written scope, method and budget, including how findings will be reviewed, published and disclosed, and who holds the resulting data.
Research & review
Our team runs the study. Key results are replicated internally and, for flagship work, reviewed by an external adviser from outside the team.
Publication & disclosure
Findings are published with their data, methods and funding, under a permanent citation — with the funder or partner named in the report itself.
A partnership funds the work; it never buys the result. Funders and commissioning clients have no right to approve, edit or delay our findings.
The terms that protect the evidence
These commitments are written into every partnership and commissioning agreement. They are the reason our work is trusted by the people who read it.
- Editorial independence
- Funders and commissioning clients have no right to approve, edit or delay findings. Research questions and methods are set by the research team, not by the party funding or commissioning a study.
- Funding disclosure
- Every publication states who funded the underlying work — core institutional funds, a grant, or a commissioned engagement — in the funding line of the report itself.
- No advocacy positions
- The Institute does not endorse candidates, parties or campaigns, and does not take institutional positions on contested policy questions beyond what the evidence in a given study supports.
Partners & funders
A cross-section of the 13 foundations, universities, agencies and banks that fund, co-publish or share data for our research. Every relationship is disclosed in the work it supports.
Foundation
- Meridian Foundation
- A grantmaking foundation supporting a multi-year programme on development finance and institutional resilience, including the maintenance of an open dataset, with its terms of reference published in full and no role in study design or findings.
- Braithwaite Foundation
- A private grantmaking foundation funding multi-year, peer-reviewed research on state capacity, regulation and public administration.
- Ashworth-Kline Foundation
- Supports independent research fellowships in economics, trade and labour-market analysis, with funding terms published for each award.
- Calderwick Trust for Comparative Studies
- Endows comparative, cross-country research on democratic institutions, rights and civic participation.
University
- University of Kestrel Bay
- A public research university whose Department of Public Policy co-publishes comparative studies on health-system reform and financing.
- Marrowfield University
- Partners on data-sharing agreements for education and workforce-mobility research, with joint methodology review.
- Solmere Institute of Technology
- Collaborates on technical studies of digital governance, artificial-intelligence policy and infrastructure resilience.
- Ravensdale College of Economics and Public Policy
- Co-hosts a seminar series and doctoral placements in market structure and industrial-organisation research.
Government Agency
- Northgale Directorate for Statistics and Analysis
- A national statistics office sharing anonymised administrative data with researchers under a documented access agreement.
- Thornfield Climate & Resources Council
- Funds independent evaluation of energy-transition and natural-resource policy, with terms of reference published alongside each study.
- Fennbridge Health Research Council
- A public research council funding peer-reviewed studies on health-system access, financing and resilience.
Multilateral Agency
- Pellingham Office for International Cooperation
- Commissions comparative policy studies on development cooperation and provides field access for multi-country fieldwork.
Development Bank
- Vantcliffe Regional Development Bank
- Supports market-sizing and sector studies for infrastructure and trade financing across member economies.
Start a partnership conversation
Tell us the question you are trying to answer. We will say honestly whether independent research is the right tool, and how we would approach it.