Transitions Lab is a small research organisation and correspondence is handled personally. Replies to substantive enquiries typically follow within a week; urgent correspondence (media enquiries, time-sensitive policy matters) is handled on a working-day basis where feasible.
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Routes of correspondence
Research correspondenceExtensions, corrections, replications
Researchers and practitioners working on topics adjacent to the Lab's programmes are warmly invited to correspond. Corrections to published entries are particularly welcome and will be acknowledged in the revised versions. Extensions of the BRW typology to new sectors, replications of the Lab's fieldwork findings, and comparative work in parallel markets are all of active interest. Primary route: written correspondence to the Lab's research address, indexed by entry.
Partnerships & fieldworkResearch collaboration, data exchange
Institutional partners active in the Lab's sectors of interest — fintech operators, e-mobility industry actors, water-sector organisations, climate-finance intermediaries, academic institutions with complementary research programmes — are welcome to propose collaboration. The Lab has capacity for a limited number of formal partnerships per research cycle and typically runs partnership conversations through structured cooperation arrangements rather than ad hoc engagements. Primary route: written enquiry with proposal outline.
Funders & programme supportGrant, foundation, institutional funding
Funders — grant programme officers, foundation staff, development-finance institution representatives — considering support for the Lab's research programmes are welcome to enquire directly. A programme memorandum is available on request and includes full budget structure, deliverable pipeline, evaluation framework, and institutional-hosting documentation. Funding is accepted only on terms that do not constrain the independence of the Lab's research output; the specific terms are documented on the About page. Primary route: written enquiry to the Lab's funding correspondence address.
Media & pressInterviews, commentary, background
Media enquiries — interviews with the Lab's principal researcher, commentary on current events relevant to the Lab's programmes, background for in-preparation articles — are handled personally and typically within a working day where feasible. For attribution, please refer to the Lab as "Transitions Lab" and the principal researcher as "Marcel Kempers, Principal Researcher, Transitions Lab." Primary route: written enquiry with publication, deadline, and scope.
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Correspondence addresses
The Lab maintains a single correspondence endpoint for all four routes above; the enquiry is categorised and routed on receipt.
Lab correspondence — lab@transitions-lab.org
Postal — Transitions Lab, c/o Reef Support B.V.
302A Stieltjesweg, 2628CK Delft, the Netherlands
Telephone & WhatsApp — +31 6 41571462
(The Lab's correspondence addresses are monitored by its principal researcher personally. Auto-replied, boilerplate, or marketing-origin correspondence is filtered and not routed to the Lab's research process. Substantive enquiries — even those that decline specific proposals — are replied to personally.)
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What the Lab does not do
As a matter of stated policy and consistent with the About page description of the Lab's posture: the Lab does not undertake paid consultancy work that would compromise the independence of its analysis, does not accept funding conditional on pre-specified research conclusions, and does not endorse specific commercial products or protocols. Enquiries that proceed from these premises are politely declined; enquiries that respect them are warmly received.