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Perspectives and experiences of migrants and their families on moving from villages to cities

One of Empatika’s first studies was a project for the World Bank looking at rural-to-urban migration. The most common reason we heard...

Empatika Year in Review 2022

2023 arrived quickly, and somehow it’s already almost three years since the start of the pandemic. A strange and often difficult three...

Child marriage and early union in Southeast Asia: piloting a tool to quantify patterns and typologie

At the very end of last year we wrapped up our pathways to adolescent pregnancy study, our first collaboration with the Burnet Institute...

Researcher stories: Rizqan

Riz has been doing immersion research since 2014 and is an Empatika core team member. His first experience was as an interpreter for...

Researcher stories: Alifah

Alifah is a research associate with Empatika and has now been doing immersion research for 8 years. First working with Empatika team...

Empatika 2021 in Review

In 2021, together, we have made it through another year of the pandemic. We are very grateful for the health of our team members, and for...

COVID-19 Study family postcards

For our COVID-19 Remote Insights Gathering Study, we utilized our pre-existing relationships with families and other community members...

Reflections on doing remote research with families

This post is a reflection on the implementation of our remote COVID-19 insights in Indonesia study based on reflections with the team of...

New study published: People's perspectives of Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance in East Lombok

This study is a follow-up to our 2019 study, working with UNICEF, on post-disaster Multi- Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in Central...

Our remote insights gathering study in Indonesia is wrapping up!

It was March 2020 when COVID-19 began to turn the world upside down. I came home early from Bangladesh, when we had an on-going research...