Case studies
Worked examples and background on the Causal Map Garden.
Reading on Qualia:
- Using AI for interviewing in a challenging context: Silva Ferretti and Steve Powell, chapter 12 of From Algorithms to Evidence: Using GenAI in Evaluation Practice (Routledge, 2026, open access). More than 60 interviews for a strategic evaluation in South Sudan, run, synthesised and validated during a funding crisis.
- The Partner Ring, Agency for Clinical Innovation, New South Wales: interviews with members of a health consumer partnership, run with an early version of Qualia (then called StorySurvey) and analysed in Causal Map, published in BMJ Open.
- Background on data collection with Qualia
- The potential of AI interviewing and conversational research
- An inductive workflow to gather and analyse evidence at scale
- Case study: our ‘seamless stories’ workflow in practice
- Case study: Qualia asks about USA problems, again
- Qualia the multi-linguist
- Why people are often more candid with machines
The Garden also holds a wider case study collection covering our work beyond Qualia, with examples from UNICEF, WFP, Save the Children, Fairtrade, GirlEffect and many more.