Research portfolio
Applied research across digital mental health, neurodiversity, trauma, positive psychology and AI-assisted support.
Research, Evaluation & Innovation
Moya Institute.
The Moya Institute is responsible for research, evaluation, clinical governance, responsible AI development and training within Moya Group. It works with universities, NGOs, funders and government to keep the group's work ethical, clinically sound and practically useful.
What the Institute owns
Five mandates, one purpose.
The Institute holds five interconnected mandates that together keep our work honest, safe and grounded in evidence.
Outcomes framework
The shared evaluation architecture used by every Moya Group programme.
Clinical governance
Clinical protocols, safeguarding standards and oversight of the Bloom Platform™.
AI innovation
Responsible AI development, evaluation and safety for clinical and wellbeing contexts.
Training
Clinician training, facilitator training and partner enablement for programmes in the pipeline.
Focus areas
Where our research lives.
Our current research portfolio spans the areas where South African partners are asking the most useful questions.
- Digital Mental Health
- Positive Psychology
- Neurodiversity
- Trauma Recovery
- Behaviour Change
- AI-assisted Psychological Support
- Youth Wellbeing
- Community Mental Health
Evaluation framework
What we measure.
Every programme carries an evaluation framework matched to its population and clinical target. Across the portfolio, our core outcome families are:
- Wellbeing
- Psychological distress
- Resilience
- Self-efficacy
- Hope
- Executive functioning
- Programme engagement
- Participant satisfaction
- Long-term outcomes
Study designs
How we match method to question.
| Study design | Best use case | Core method | Primary outputs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formative & user research | Early programme design and iteration | Interviews, co-design workshops, usability testing | Design principles, user personas, prototypes |
| Feasibility & acceptability | New programme in a new context | Mixed-methods pilot with process measures | Feasibility report, acceptability findings |
| Pre / post outcomes evaluation | Programme with a defined cohort | Validated measures at baseline and endpoint | Outcome brief, funder-ready report |
| Comparative & quasi-experimental | Two implementation models or sites | Matched comparison with programme data | Comparative evaluation report |
| Implementation & systems research | Scaling and integration questions | Realist evaluation, systems mapping | Implementation playbook, policy brief |
Collaborations & publications
Building the evidence together.
Formal research MOUs, joint publications and evaluation partnerships will be listed here as they are confirmed. If you're a researcher, evaluator or funder thinking about co-designing, co-authoring or co-publishing, we'd love to talk.