Services

Foresight and Futureproofing

Combining foresight scenarios with techniques from science fiction, Tikanu can help you anticipate, shape, and create resilient plans to prepare for planetary and hyperlocal futures. We can answer questions about specific challenges, and lead your organization in thinking through, tailoring, and implementing anticipatory responses.

We also offer small-scale workshops to guide groups from households to local governments in envisioning how you can thrive and make a difference in a climate-changed future.

Science for Policy

Behavioral and social science research can help determine what policies will work best to achieve specific goals. Analysis of existing literature provides quick-turnaround recommendations, while tailored experiments can gather the data needed for the best possible policy design.

Policy for Science

Based on extensive experience with all sides of government science funding, Tikanu offers best practice recommendations for incentivizing and supporting science in key areas, and for creating an innovation pipeline from basic research all the way through field application.

Design of Funding Programs

Successful scientific funding starts with a well-designed call for proposals and a solid plan for program lifespan. Tikanu can provide recommendations for scoping, application requirements, schedule and milestones, evaluation metrics and methods, and transition of outcomes to the next stage of development.

Experimental Design and Analysis

As a subcontractor for larger research projects, Tikanu provides design, implementation, and analysis of qualitative and quantitative psychology experiments. I have experience with a range of methods, but specialize in testing judgment and decision-making quality in realistic and complex tasks.

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Drawing on extensive familiarity with the cognitive literature, Tikanu can provide guidance and recommendations for increasing usability and improving decision-making in applied settings. Past projects have ranged from independent evaluation of human-centered cybersecurity, to countering online disinformation, to building innovative organizational culture.