About us
QualiaInterviews is an app developed by Causal Map. It was created to help users collect causal stories from their stakeholders. Causal Map was created in 2020 by Steve Powell, Fiona Remnant and James Copestake to help researchers code, analyse, and visualise fragments of information about what causes what.
QualiaInterviews was originally called StorySurvey, an app developed by Steve for conducting online surveys. As artificial intelligence began to advance, we started experimenting with automating data collection. This journey allowed us to enhance the app, and we chose to give it a fresh new name: QualiaInterviews!
Co-founder and Director
Steve has led and contributed to research and evaluation projects in many countries around the world over the last 25 years. He has worked on a wide range of topics, from psychosocial programming after the 2004 tsunami and community resilience in East Africa to counting stray dogs in Sarajevo. Steve has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation approaches. He gained his PhD in psychology researching post-traumatic stress after the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
This research and evaluation work left Steve longing for a better way to collect and synthesise people’s ideas about ‘what influences what’. This inspired Steve to co-found Causal Map Ltd and later on to create QualiaInterviews.
Outreach Coordinator
Gabriele Caldas, an Internationalist from Brazil, focuses on enhancing outreach and sales strategies, refining educational materials, assisting app users, and engaging in research on causal mapping, data collection and prompt engineering.