Our aim is to do impactful practice-based research. This requires direct engagement with the humanitarian sector. We therefore maintain long term research partnerships with humanitarian organisarions. This gives us the contextual knowledge for developing evidence-based insights and solutions for the various challenges organisations face. It also allows us to close the research loop and to be involved in follow up or implementation steps. This is what a typical research partnership looks like:

Our expertise

Uniquely positioned in a leading business school, HRG taps into a vast pool of resources including PhD candidates, MBA students, and world-class domain experts from our large academic network. Our group hosts expertise across a wide range of domains.

• Methodological expertise: analytics, statistics, modelling, optimisation, and qualitative research techniques

• Thematic expertise:  strategy, operations, supply chain management, marketing, business models, organisational behaviour, asset management, information systems

• Application expertise: disaster relief, development assistance, global health, epidemiology, family planning, sustainability