About Polymetric
Polymetric is a collaborative practice and research initiative concerned with how change takes shape in organisational and social life. Our work draws on process and complexity perspectives, organisational scholarship and practical experience. We investigate how people's understandings, responses and actions develop together with the arrangements through which they work.
Different perspectives, shared enquiry
Our team brings complementary experience in organisational change, project and programme delivery, process improvement, organisational psychology, economics and company law. This experience spans multinational businesses, international markets and academic settings. Different professional perspectives help us question provisional explanations and recognise consequences that a single perspective might overlook.
Questions that develop through the work
Our research examines how possible courses of action become conceivable, expressible and consequential, and what evidence justifies claims about continuity or change. We are interested in how interpretations and commitments develop, when they can be reconsidered, and how enquiry and intervention participate in those developments.
Practice generates questions for research, while research can challenge the assumptions behind our methods and recommendations. We keep claims proportionate to the evidence and learn from inconclusive, unexpected and unsuccessful cases alongside apparent successes.
Equality, inclusion and social justice
A developing strand concerns how commitments to equality, inclusion and social justice become policy and take shape in practice. We examine whose experiences inform decisions, which concerns are taken seriously and how institutional arrangements affect what people can do. We are interested in whether the consequences for those affected become visible and influential enough to prompt reconsideration where it is warranted.