About
About
Doeth Studio is a multi-disciplinary research and design practice led by Ali Jones. We are currently based in the North East of Scotland and work across the UK.
Doeth means wise in Welsh. It reflects how we work, with care, clarity, and deep understanding.
We support organisations and communities to make services, systems, and strategies more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable. Our work is grounded in the social model of disability and shaped by lived experience.
We create space, time, and tools to help teams make sense of complexity and build lasting change.
We often support early planning, but we can also join existing work to identify gaps, centre lived experience, and support prioritising next steps.
Pre-discovery
Exploring priorities, understanding access needs, checking assumptions, and agreeing on how we will work together.
Discovery
Designing inclusive, ethical research to understand what is happening and who is excluded. Creating opportunities to listen and advocate for lived experience, engaging with stakeholders, and mapping wider systems.
Sense-making and strategy
Helping teams reflect on what they’ve learned, spot patterns, and develop inclusive, practical, and place-based strategies.
Design and delivery
Co-designing services, tools, or change processes with the people most impacted. We also offer mentoring and facilitation support.
Reflection and evaluation
Building in feedback, learning, and accountability to understand what is working, what needs to change, and how to keep improving.
We use a wide range of methods and tools because inclusion doesn’t come from one approach. We adapt what we use based on the people, needs, and contexts we are working with, drawing from our multidisciplinary background and skills.
These approaches support meaningful participation, empower and advocate for different communities’ needs, lived experiences and voices, and enable sustainable, proportionate change and improvement.
Inclusive and trauma-informed research
User research and participatory insight
Service design and design thinking
Participatory, relational, and co-design practices
Creative engagement and play-based activities
Speculative design and futures thinking
Accessible communication and facilitation
Service pattern development and systems thinking