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How to Use Research in Advocacy Without Overstating the Evidence

An evidence explainer for advocacy teams that need to connect findings to policy demands while staying honest about uncertainty, values, and contested research.

June 28, 2026 / Public Policy / Social Research
How to Use Research in Advocacy Without Overstating the Evidence
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When Data Collection Harms the People It Is Meant to Help

Composite cases show how research and monitoring can become extractive when consent is weak, categories are careless, or communities lose control over sensitive knowledge.

June 28, 2026 / Social Research / Evidence Literacy
When Data Collection Harms the People It Is Meant to Help
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How to Design a Community Survey People Can Actually Trust

A practical research guide to building community surveys that ask clear questions, protect participants, and report results without pretending the data says more than it can.

June 28, 2026 / Social Research / Civic Participation
How to Design a Community Survey People Can Actually Trust
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Why Lived Experience Is Evidence—but Not the Same Kind of Evidence as a Survey

Composite research voices explain how testimony, interviews, ethnography, surveys, administrative data, and participatory research each support different claims.

June 28, 2026 / Social Research / Lived Experience
Why Lived Experience Is Evidence—but Not the Same Kind of Evidence as a Survey
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Migration Myths, Data Gaps, and the Claims We Cannot Make

A myth-versus-reality guide to migration evidence, category problems, source differences, and uncertainty in public claims.

June 28, 2026 / Migration / Evidence Literacy
Migration Myths, Data Gaps, and the Claims We Cannot Make
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What Research Shows About Discrimination in Housing

An evidence explainer on how researchers study unequal treatment in housing, why complaint data undercounts it, and where individual cases differ from patterns.

June 28, 2026 / Housing Discrimination / Inequality
What Research Shows About Discrimination in Housing
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Do Community Programs Work? How to Evaluate Without Oversimplifying

A practical FAQ for small nonprofits on evaluating community programs with proportionate evidence, clearer assumptions, and honest limits.

June 28, 2026 / Programme Evaluation / Social Research
Do Community Programs Work? How to Evaluate Without Oversimplifying
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Correlation Is Not Causation—but What Does That Mean in Practice?

Correlation is often a clue, not a verdict. This FAQ-style myth explainer shows how confounding, reverse causality, selection effects, experiments, and quasi-experiments affect civil-society claims.

June 28, 2026 / Evidence Literacy / Social Research
Correlation Is Not Causation—but What Does That Mean in Practice?
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How to Read a Statistic Before You Share It

A technically correct number can still mislead. This checklist helps readers inspect source, denominator, sample, time period, comparison group, uncertainty, correlation, and visual framing before sharing.

June 28, 2026 / Evidence Literacy / Social Cohesion
How to Read a Statistic Before You Share It
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What Does the Evidence Actually Say About Social Cohesion?

Social cohesion is not one thing. This explainer separates trust, belonging, participation, solidarity, and institutional confidence so public debate can use the evidence more carefully.

June 28, 2026 / Social Cohesion / Belonging
What Does the Evidence Actually Say About Social Cohesion?