Research Consultancy
Hijink offers full-package multi-disciplinary social science research consultancy services.
We will tailor our approach every step of the way to take your project from design through to delivery.
We specialise in qualitative and ethnographic methodologies, with a focus on the lived experiences of our research participants.
We have developed a unique system of lean and agile remote methodologies to
Work with local research teams anywhere in the world
Access research participants in hard-to-reach areas
Provide training for researchers, participants & agents
Gain rich insights into lived experiences
Tell authentic and personal stories from the field
We partner with private and public organisations and institutions, including commercial enterprises, governmental and non-governmental organisations, foundations and charities, academia and other research agencies.
Past Projects
Social Agriculture in East & West Africa
The Social Agriculture research project was conducted in partnership between the Mastercard Foundation, Caribou Digital, Kilimo Source, Learn.ink and Habitus Insight over several phases from 2022 to 2024.
It formed a part of Caribou Digital's extensive Platform Livelihoods research into the digital transformation of livelihoods and the future of work in the developing world.
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Hijink company Founder & Director, Finn Richardson, partnered with Kilimo Source to provide research consultancy, project management and participatory video diary storytelling for the exploratory first phase of the Social Agriculture research in Kenya in 2022-23, in which 'Social Agriculture' was formally defined and documented.
Along with the project leads from phase 1 and a carefully recruited team of local researchers and fixers, Finn also designed and led the phase 2 research in Nigeria in 2023-24 with a focus on value chain analysis and the impact of social media platforms on agricultural value chains.
For an introduction to these projects, take a look at Habitus Insight's beautiful short documentary films from Kenya and Nigeria.
For an in-depth view into the complex value chain analysis conducted for the Nigerian research project, take a look at the interactive Social Agriculture Ecosystem Map (not optimised for mobile).
Authorship
​Finn Richardson, Olayinka Kolade, and Maryam Omotizi. “Value Chain Analysis of Social Agriculture in Nigeria.” Farnham, Surrey, UK: Caribou Digital Publishing, April 2024. https://www.platformlivelihoods.com/social-agriculture-in-nigeria/.
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Finn Richardson, Kilimo Source and Caribou Digital. Social Agriculture: A Literature Review. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Caribou Digital Publishing, April 2022. www.platformlivelihoods.com/social-agriculturelit-review/
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Emrys Schoemaker, Reem Talhouk, Catherine Kamanu, Eoghan Mcdonaugh, Chris Mcdonaugh, Eliza Casey, Adam Wills, Finn Richardson, and Johnathan Donner. 2022. Social Agriculture: Examining the Affordances of Social Media for Agricultural Practices. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS ’22), June 29– July 01, 2022, Seattle, WA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https: //doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534806
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Catherine Kamanu, Finn Richardson, Eliza Casey, Dr. Christian McDonaugh, Eoghan McDonaugh, Adam Wills, Dr. Reem Talhouk, Dr. Emrys Schoemaker, Jonathan Donner (2024). Social Agriculture. In Caribou Digital and Jonathan Donner, eds. The Platform Livelihoods Project. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Caribou Digital Publishing, 2024. (pp. 121-137) https://www.cariboudigital.net/platform-livelihoods-book/