What is an organisation?
An organisation is a shared workspace. It’s free, and it exists so that research isn’t owned by one person’s account.
What it gives you
- Shared studies and surveys. Work owned by the organisation is visible to its members rather than tied to whoever created it.
- A shared data dictionary. Define fields once at organisation level and reuse them across every study, instead of redefining “date of birth” in each one. See The data dictionary.
- Survey templates. Questionnaires the organisation reuses, kept in one place.
- Members and teams. One list of who’s involved, grouped however your group actually works. See Members and teams.
- Central billing. An organisation can carry billing for the studies under it, so each study doesn’t need its own arrangement.
- A public profile. A page describing who you are, linking to your public studies.
When it’s worth creating one
Create one if more than one person will touch the research, or if the work should outlive your involvement. Those are the same reason really: an organisation is what keeps a study going when the researcher who set it up moves institution.
If you’re a solo researcher running one survey, you don’t need one. You can create an organisation later and move work into it.
Creating one
The creation wizard asks for the details (name, description), your institution, where the organisation is based, its goals, and a plan. Names are checked for availability as you type, because the name becomes part of your public URL.
Finding your way around
- Dashboard and Studies — what the organisation is running.
- Collaboration — members, invites and teams.
- Shared — the data dictionary and survey templates pooled across studies.
- Settings — general details, the public profile, billing, and your own membership.