Methods Bench helps students, researchers, and organizations design stronger studies, analyze data, publish findings, and turn evidence into useful outputs.
From a stuck proposal to a national evaluation: Methods Bench works across the research and evidence lifecycle.
Research design review, methods support, ethics preparation.
Quantitative and qualitative analysis, interpretation, tables and figures.
Manuscript review, journal strategy, reviewer response support.
Evidence briefs, donor summaries, learning products, presentations.
Calculate sample size for surveys, two-group comparisons and qualitative saturation planning: with every step shown.
Answer five questions about your aim, data and context, then get a recommended study design.
Build a section-by-section manuscript outline aligned to common reporting guidelines and your study type.
Create a structured fieldwork budget, edit line items, apply contingency and export your budget.
Need help applying these tools to your own project?
Book a Research ConsultationAfrican students pursuing studies and research related to human origins and related sciences. Confirm current scope on the funder's site.
Early-career researchers at African universities, aged 35 or below; at least 70% of fellowships reserved for women.
Method choices, fieldwork realities, and the kinds of evidence products we help organizations produce.
How we used photovoice to understand family planning experiences in Eastern Uganda: design choices, ethics navigation, and what photos surfaced that interviews didn't.
A two-page evidence brief turning routine monitoring data into a story donors and boards read. Built for a community maternal & newborn care program in eastern Uganda.
Organizations often collect valuable evidence through reports, monitoring systems, evaluations, and implementation experience. Methods Bench helps transform that evidence into clear, usable products that support learning, decision-making, reporting, and fundraising.
NGOs: turn an existing report into a donor-ready 2-page brief in 10 days.
Methods Bench is built on hands-on work across study design, fieldwork, analysis, and publication: in Uganda and the wider East African region.
Talk to someone who has done the work. One call is often enough to identify the next move.