Real voices, true stories, clear insights.

Cultural Perspectives are market leaders in delivering high-quality research outcomes in culturally and linguistically diverse communities, throughout our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations and across hard-to-reach audiences.

At our core we are research and evaluation specialists and our research methodology is rigorous, culturally sensitive and centres on fruitful community consultation. We ensure a diversity of community voices are heard and are committed to culturally specific research methods based on mutual respect and cooperation.

Our research capacity is delivered by a specialised team:

CIRCA are the experts in culturally sensitive research, policy and evaluation. CIRCA’s team offers insights derived from 25 years of experience working with diverse linguistic and cultural communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote, rural and urban settings. Our field researchers conduct our research in-language across numerous linguistic, cultural, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Our methods are ethical and trustworthy and we deliver real voices and clarity in our research outputs.


Audiences

  • Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities in remote, rural and urban Australia

  • Research with culturally and linguistically diverse communities

  • Research with the general Australian community around social and progressive issues

Research Services

  • Social and developmental research

  • Literature reviews and scans of academic and grey literature

  • Online surveys and discussion forums with stakeholders and community

  • Traditional and Online focus groups

  • Stakeholder/in-depth interviews evaluation

  • In home, peer or family circle qualitative research

  • Ethnography

  • Concept testing and campaign research and evaluation

  • Quantitative surveys

  • Polling

  • Participatory research (consultations, world café, codesign workshops)

  • Organisational reviews

  • Monitoring and evaluation frameworks, program logic models and theory of change

  • Process, formative and outcome evaluations using qualitative and quantitative methods