Creative Research Solutions
Our business is defined by the confluence of research and communications expertise. We channel the free flow of research to ensure key findings are communicated thoroughly and purposefully throughout your network - much like the way a river moves valuable minerals through an ecosystem. That’s why we’re named after the river Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215.
We come to all projects with an intersectional feminist lens and a focus on inclusive community development.
We are knowledge brokers.
We combine research and media expertise to help you:
Achieve rigorous, capacity building research and evaluation work
Engage with and report back to your research participants
Utilize arts-based methods to move beyond the stale report or the golden soundbite
Co-Founders
Lisa McMurtry, PhD.
Research Director
In addition to co-founding a documentary production company and an international documentary film festival, Lisa has taught in four universities, is published in the academic and popular press, and has supported dozens of community-engaged research partnerships. She has held senior roles at multiple consulting firms and has taken a lead role within several non-profit organizations. She brings an intersectional feminist approach to the study of community economic development, culture, and the social determinants of health, with clients who work on a local to global scale.
Nicholas Loess
Creative Director
Nick is an award-winning filmmaker, internationally exhibited video artist, scholar, and educator. He combines high production values with ingenious and intuitive storytelling. His advanced training in the rigours of scholarship make him uniquely equipped to unpack and relate these stories. Nicholas believes that the key to communicating the complexities of research involves engaging with the art inside each project or idea and artfully communicating that to the wider world.
Clients & Partners
