I provide research consulting services for individuals, non-profits, community organizations, and companies. I have a decade of experience conducting research as a sociologist, both solo and as part of a team. I would love to support your work with my skills and experience. I the most experience working on the topics of race, inequality, urban studies, and history. And while I have training and experience in both quantitative and qualitative research techniques, I have the most experience conducting interview based research, content analysis, archival work, and work involving the US Census Bureau and similar demographic data sets.
My consulting rates start at $45 /hr with discount rates for community based organizations and small BIPOC/LGBTQ non-profit organizations. Please see my services below and use the contact form to reach out if you think I might be a right fit for you:
Literature Reviews
Does you or your organization need to get caught up on the most recent findings in a specific field? I can accelerate your work by providing something as simple as a reading list of essential texts to a fully cited review piece on the trajectory of a field of study.
Evaluation Research
When your organisation needs to understand the effectiveness of interventions and programs, evaluation research is a great way to understand impact. I can put together a report with originally collected data showing how outcomes match up to organizational/program goals and recommendations for improvement based on data from similar programs/efforts.
Environmental Surveys
Environmental surveys are meant to show you the state of a community, environment, or industry and give direction on how you can best intervene and make an impact. I have experience doing both community needs surveys for non-profit interventions and surveys of comparable organizations/businesses to help support organizational change.
Basic Research
If you simply need to hire a research to do an original piece of work for your organization or support an already existing research team, I’m a great choice for that too. I have over a decade of experience designing and executing qualitative social science research projects and I would love to apply that experience to you and your organization’s research questions.
William Jamal Richardson 