For Academic Research Teams
We build stronger pathways between evidence and the people research is meant to serve.
Mental health research now operates inside a fragmented, fast-moving trust environment shaped not only by institutions and journals, but by creators, peer networks, lived experience, and digital culture.
Narrative Architecture’s work sits at the intersection of recruitment, participation, dissemination, public trust, and lived-experience-centered research design.
Our offerings include:
Trust-Centered Recruitment & Retention
We help research teams identify who they need to reach, where trust already exists, and how to design recruitment strategies that are clear, ethical, and community-informed.
Our work may include participant journey mapping, plain-language and IRB-aware recruitment materials, consent-supportive communication, retention messaging, and strategies to reach beyond the easiest-to-find populations.
Lived-Experience Participation Design
We help organizations design meaningful infrastructure for lived-experience participation. This includes advisory councils, creator and patient boards, compensation frameworks, facilitation structures, participation protocols, and feedback systems that move beyond symbolic inclusion toward real influence.
Our work draws from participatory research, patient and public involvement (PPI), implementation science, and trauma-informed engagement practices.
Evidence Dissemination & Public Engagement
We help research teams share findings through voices and channels communities already trust — without overstating certainty or flattening nuance.
This may include creator-informed dissemination strategy, plain-language framing, community engagement plans, briefing materials, and partnerships that help research move beyond academic audiences without losing accuracy or nuance, especially where people make decisions about care, risk, trust, diagnosis, treatment, and belonging.
Research Translation & Narrative Risk Audits
We conduct structured reviews of research communication before launch, publication, recruitment, or dissemination. These audits evaluate whether study materials, messaging, and public-facing language are understandable, trustworthy, non-stigmatizing, and likely to resonate with the communities a project hopes to reach.
Audits may assess recruitment and consent language, comprehension and plain-language clarity, narrative and stigma risk, audience trust and interpretation, dissemination readiness, creator and community fit.