About us
The GoodMess is a purpose-driven changemaking consultancy that catalyses just and ethical sustainability transitions in social and health care, locally and globally. With versatile skills in qualitative research, we tailor our toolbox to meet the clients’ needs: What you need depends on the “good mess” that needs to be understood and disentangled.
With strong foundations in multi-disciplinary academic research, we specialise in themes such as:
- environmental burden of care technologies
- international health workforce migration
- planetary political economies and ethics of care
- gendered global health
- care in peace and conflict
- stigmatised and intimate care needs (such as incontinence and other messy realities of human embodiment)
- material needs of care (such as adult incontinence pads) and their environmental and socio-economic sustainability
- multi-sited ethnography, participatory action research and other methodologies suitable for mapping and tinkering complex socio-material phenomena — from micro-level of the embodied everyday to the macro-structures of the global economy…and back again!
The world is a complex mess.
But it is a good mess. One that can and should be deeply understood.
Solving the great challenges of our time — from planetary polycrisis to multi-species care deficits — requires an approach that embraces the world in its full complexity.
Scroll down for our services, get in touch and let us know what kind of a “mess” or a complex challenge we can help you with.
We promise not to force it into some neat boxes it doesn’t fit in. Instead, we help you make sense of the complexity.
Let’s join forces, and figure out ways to fit our life and care needs sustainably within the planetary boundaries.
Services
What should we do together then?
Research services
We provide commissioned studies, research consultancy and other research services to both private and public sector actors as well as international and national non-governmental organisations. Utilising our partnership networks, we can put together teams of high-level experts, often with PhDs and long-term experience.
We can also help research organisations and industries to disseminate research findings for wider audiences creatively and effectively. How about a theatre play based on research findings? Yes, we have experience and networks to deliver you just that.
Or perhaps you work in care technology industry with an urgent need for out-of-the box ideas for radically sustainable innovations — but no RDI funding to pursue the innovations? Let us help you to put together multi-disciplinary consortiums, where you can cross-pollinate knowledge and build large international funding applications for sustainability transformation. Yes, we can do that!
Speaking services
Do you need a key note speaker or a panelist to give a motivational talk about sustainability challenges in social and health care?
Perhaps you need a talk that is simultaneously entertaining, passionate, funny and witty, while also provocative, informative, and focused on solutions?
Or are you organising a panel discussion or an event that needs an experienced host, chair and discussant?
Please do reach out, and let’s see if we can help! We may be The GoodMess, but our message-delivering capacities are far from messy and unclear.
Podcasts
We are presently developing different podcast concepts, to disseminate knowledge on the vast variety of sustainability challenges in social and health care. If you want to hear more about this, please reach out.
Strategy consultancy
We provide strategy consultancy for public, private and third sector organisations that wish to catalyse just and ethical sustainability transformations in health and social care.
Be it about ethical practices of international nurse recruitment, or the desire to reduce the environmental burden of care delivery, do get in touch!
Co-creative workshops and events
Do you want to organise a multi-stakekeholder event, with the aim to co-produce radically new knowledge on messy challenges?
Perhaps you need someone to design and facilitate workshops?
Or, do you need help in bringing together diverse networks of stakeholders — the kind of groups that tend not to sit around the same table? We can help you!
Bringing together networks with shared passions but different backgrounds — and translating knowledge across different perspectives — is our superpower and special skill.
Networks of togetherness
To fully comprehend the complexity of the world requires combinations of different skillsets and perspectives. The GoodMess is specialised in identifying the root causes of challenges that seem “messy” and intractable. Simultaneously, we know when our own skills are not adequate in pursuing the solutions.
While we are a small company, we have extensive global networks, with capacity to build radically interdisciplinary partnerships for the clients’ needs.
After all, catalysing sustainability transitions is something that no individual actor can ever do on their own. It is about team work and collaboration — networks of planetary togetherness.
Today we need to build teams, collaborations, partnerships and networks of togetherness like never before. The philosophy of The GoodMess is about collaboration, not competition.
Some of our projects
The GoodMess was established in December 2024. While we are already working with some exciting initiatives, it is too early to report about them in detail. Watch this space however. We will make sure to add updates as soon as we can. In the meanwhile, please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have sustainability transitions in mind that we could catalyse together!
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Testimonials
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