How knowledge is made, and how it travels
Every study answers three questions at the outset. Not every study needs all three pathways, but its intended pathway must be clear from the start.
Where the knowledge is meant to go
Practice to Practice
What will practitioners be able to do differently?
Practice to Academy
What new knowledge or question will this give the academy?
Practice to Policy and Institutional Change
What could public or social institutions do differently?
The work TriQuest carries
The Question Bank
A living bank of questions that existing knowledge has not answered, drawn from programmes, community institutions, state teams, government engagements and structured conversations with rural leadership. The bank sets the annual agenda and anchors partnerships.
Each question is typed by what it needs:
Joint Research
Co-created studies with academic partners. Each is built as a fundable proposition covering:
- the problem from practice and the research question
- why existing knowledge falls short
- what each partner contributes
- method and geography
- the expected knowledge contribution and pathways to use
Synthesis and Translation
Rapid synthesis for decision windows, and knowledge products matched to users, guided by the question who needs this, and in what form?
- Research papers, evidence briefs and methodological notes
- Practitioner protocols, programme-design notes and institutional briefs
- Tools, datasets and convenings
- Local-language video, WhatsApp voice notes, illustrated manuals, dashboards and multilingual AI chat and voice bots
Knowledge for Tomorrow’s Practitioners
Practice cases enter curricula. Practitioners take residencies in universities, researchers take residencies in the field, and students take up field fellowships and dissertations on live questions.