Our values

At New Era Advisory, we build all our projects on the values of being evidence-based, trauma-informed, collaborative and meaningful, and ethical. 

Each of these values mean the following to us:

Evidence-based

  • Building upon the evidence base and not reinventing the wheel
  • Building upon best practice methodologies (as established in the literature)
  • Minimising over-consultation and utilising existing data and evidence
  • Reviewing existing data prior to data collection to avoid duplication
  • Using theory-based methodologies to add rigor

Trauma-informed

  • Being mindful that many people have experienced trauma
  • Preventing re-traumatisation through prioritising participant comfort and safety
  • Fostering safety, trust, collaboration, providing choice and control, and ensuring participants feel heard and listened to

Collaborative and meaningful

  • Work closely with you to ensure that the end products are meaningful and useful to you and your team
  • Providing opportunities for skills transfer and capacity building
  • Preferencing use of plain English
  • Leveraging the knowledge and understanding of our clients to ensure deep understandings of subject matter in our work
  • Bringing in the voices of policy beneficiaries or service users, where appropriate, to ensure that work is meaningful to everyone
  • Working with other consultants to build teams to meet the unique needs of each project

Ethical

  • Embedding ethical principles from the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research
  • Ensuring free, prior and informed consent
  • Demonstrating respect for research participants
  • Ensuring benefit from research and mitigating any risks
  • Building in ethics considerations into all projects and obtaining formal ethics approval where required