00 — The Thesis
Every question had to be made answerable.
Fragmented evidence, institutional records that disagree, boundaries no one had settled. The route to an answer had to be built first — from one borough to an international market.
Three recurring areas: making a subject investigable, investigating where no route exists, keeping the evidence usable.
01Evidence systems
02Applied investigations and strategy
03Research instruments
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What do public records show about funding linked to Barking?
01 — The question
Published award records and charity accounts describe different parts of B&D’s charitable economy. Read together, they show which organisations appear in each register, which published funders are visible, how recorded awards enter the borough-connected population and how reported income is distributed. They do not provide a complete measure of funding or B&D-local spending.
02 — Follow the money
The audit defines an 808-organisation seed population and maps each published GrantNav connection by one step. It separates awards entering from upstream non-seed funders from limited seed-to-seed and seed-to-non-seed activity, while Charity Commission accounts provide context on organisational scale and financial review signals.
03 — Limited circulation
The retained network is overwhelmingly inbound: £91.2m of £92.2m in observed award value enters the seed population from upstream non-seed funders. Published seed-to-seed awards total £263k and originate from the sole seed organisation observed distributing awards. From 2021 to 2024, the top tenth of reporting organisations account for 85–88% of reported annual income.
Observed funding flows
Observed funding flows
Do the workshops change academic careers?
01 — The question
The workshops were intended to strengthen international academic ties and engagement. The motivating question is whether participation changed academic careers. The available evidence answers something narrower: what patterns appear around first participation among the people whose publication records can be linked and followed?
02 — The cohort
Link the programme record to ORCID, OpenAlex and Crossref; resolve scholarly identities; group versions of the same output into publication families; compare the three years before and after first participation; estimate person- and calendar-year-adjusted differences; and examine co-authorship only where both workshop peers have accepted OpenAlex identities.
03 — The trajectory
Among 44 participants with complete seven-year observation windows, publication trajectories varied and raw output fell on average. After adjustment, the average estimate was close to zero but imprecise, so no common workshop-timed shift was detected. Of 1,138 workshop-peer pairs, 18 had accepted OpenAlex identities for both people; two first appeared as co-authors after the workshop. These are observed associations, not causal effects.
The programme collaboration network
The programme collaboration network
Is access to culture equitable?
No single register describes the organisations through which London’s cultural life is produced, and access to what they offer is uneven. Codex identifies and connects them; Strata asks what becomes visible when they are read against the spatial structure of the city.
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Strata · choice network
Can an expansion strategy be justified rather than intuited?
01 — The brief
The global art market concentrates almost three quarters of its sales in three national markets — the UK, the US and China. For a consultancy already operating in one of them, expansion is not a question of ambition but of address: which markets, entered where, justified by what?
02 — The pipeline
Three geographies, three postures, three instruments. Planning data turns the UK’s development pipeline into a lead engine; a census-driven index funnel narrows fifty US states to five entry cities; a gateway thesis routes the China strand through two culturally-mediating localities, their identities withheld. The strands converge in an autonomous competitor sweep — twenty-four agentic analyses across eight cities and three segments.
03 — The shortlist
Eight cities, a register of roughly two hundred competitors, and a strategy the client can re-run as the data moves. The recommendations themselves were bought and stay withheld — what is published is the architecture that produced them, redactions included.
Fifty states to five entry cities
Fifty states to five entry cities
What environmental traces become visible when political power changes?
01 — The question
A council changes hands; a commitment is declared; something is or is not commissioned and built; and only then might an environmental signal move — while organised public action runs alongside, sometimes ahead of the politics, sometimes behind. No one system tests that chain: a commitment is not delivery, and delivery is not an effect. So five are assembled and read together. A research framework, not a proven causal chain.
02 — Five systems
The observatory is being assembled one system at a time: the electoral record, policy and procurement registers, ecological observation and climate services, and the record of organised public action. Each has to be obtained, made internally consistent, and placed on a shared timeline and a shared map before any relationship between two of them can be tested.
03 — What registers
None yet — deliberately. The instrument is being calibrated: some sources have returned structured samples, others have confirmed routes awaiting acquisition, and the geographies do not yet align. Findings appear here only when a versioned analytical release has tested a relationship.
Five systems — every link untested
Five systems — every link untested
The Ledger — all work
- 01Barking Community ResearchFinancial AuditLIVE
- 02Academic Writing SeriesImpact AnalysisLIVE
- 03Codex / StrataCartography · Spatial AnalysisWIP
- 04Art MarketMarket StrategyLIVE
- 05FoE — Political EnvironmentalismPolitical ResearchWIP
Open any project for the question, the approach and the findings so far.
Methodological demonstrations, not a catalogue of commissions.
Some are self-directed, and some remain in active development. Each shows how the work is constructed and where its evidence stops.