We bring clarity to your tough questions
Co-Lab Research provides professional, data-driven analysis and consulting. Whether it’s a question of big-picture strategy or in-the-weeds data analytics, we adapt our approach to your needs.
Specializing in program evaluation, political and policy analysis, and messaging campaigns, we work with a wide range of non-profit, public sector, academic, and private-sector partners. Please keep reading for some ideas on how we might be a good fit to meet your needs.
We are a collective of mission-driven social scientists passionate about social justice. We prioritize collaborating with grassroots organizations working every day to make our communities stronger.
In these collaborations, our aim is to complement the energy, creativity, and hard work already present in existing organizations and communities. We combine our skills with yours to understand challenges and possible solutions.
Our partnerships often look like one or more of the following:
Evidence-based program evaluation
Background reports on community challenges and policy
Specialized seminars or presentations for your organization
Community-Centered Research
Analytics Advising
Sometimes you’re looking for an answer, but you’re not sure what your data is telling you.
At Co-Lab Research, we provide timely, cutting-edge analytics services to clients seeking tailored solutions to data problems and research questions. We always adapt our approach carefully according to the question at hand.
With extensive training and practical experience in multi-method research methods, data science, and statistics, our team can help you make sense of your data, evaluate program effectiveness or messaging, compose background reports about big-picture social challenges, and create data visualizations and tools for your team or audience.
Our analytics work often looks like:
Deep dives into clients’ existing electoral and demographic data
Gathering and analyzing publicly available data
Designing, conducting, and analyzing original studies to answer new, specific questions
Chicago Democracy Project
Committed research means commitment to particular places. Headquartered in Chicago, Co-Lab is a leader in analyzing Chicago politics, and shares some of these analyses in the Chicago Democracy Project blog, which we use to better understand our home and build bridges to community groups seeking to do the same.
Our team
Our team is made up of PhD-trained social scientists with expertise in public policy, research methods, political science, and education. We have taught university-level courses and published extensive original research in scholarly and media outlets about urban politics, education policy, research methods, public opinion and messaging, racial inequality, elections, and more. We are eager to work together with community collaborators to learn more about your challenges and questions!