DATA VISUALISATION PROJECT
Making community insights visible, accessible and meaningful across Moray.
The Data Visualisation Project is part of the Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray’s commitment to strengthening shared understanding across the system. Community members, partners and lived‑experience contributors have highlighted how valuable it is to see what’s happening — not just read about it. This project responds directly to that need.
WHY THIS PROJECT MATTERS
Across Moray, rich insights are gathered through lived experience, Collective Voice reports, engagement sessions, and community‑led research. But this information often sits in documents, conversations or separate systems. When it’s hard to see the bigger picture, it’s harder to act on it.
Data visualisation helps by:
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Turning complex information into clear, accessible visuals
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Supporting rights‑based, trauma‑informed conversations
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Making lived experience more visible in decision‑making
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Strengthening collaboration across partners and working groups
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Helping people understand how different parts of the system connect
Partners have described this work as “exciting and meaningful”, noting how it supports more grounded, community‑led planning.
You can find out more about Collective Voice, the latest reports and Share Your Experience on the Moray Wellbeing Hub website.
WHAT IS THE DATA VISUALISATION TOOL?
The Data Visualisation Tool is an online, interactive platform that turns Collective Voice insights into simple, accessible visuals. It helps people explore themes, patterns and lived‑experience stories in a way that is easy to understand and useful for everyday conversations, planning and decision‑making.
The tool brings together anonymised feedback gathered across Moray and presents it through charts, filters, CHIME‑aligned categories and visual summaries. Anyone can use it — community members, practitioners, partners and decision‑makers — to better understand what people in Moray are experiencing and what matters most to them.
It is designed to be:
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Accessible — simple visuals, clear language, mobile‑friendly
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Meaningful — rooted in lived and living experience
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Useful — supports rights‑based practice, planning and improvement
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Transparent — shows how community insights are being used
This is the first version of the tool, developed with community input and continually improved based on feedback.
COLLECTIVE VOICE | DATA VISUALISATION PROJECT
WHAT IS COLLECTIVE VOICE
Collective Voice is how Moray gathers lived and living experiences so real community stories can shape better mental health, wellbeing, and recovery supports. Insights are anonymised, themed, and shared in public Collective Voice Reports.
You can find out more about Collective Voice, the latest reports and Share Your Experience on the Moray Wellbeing Hub website.
HOW THE PARTNERSHIP WORKS
This project is a collaboration between:
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Moray Wellbeing Hub CIC — hosting Collective Voice and supporting peer‑led engagement
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Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray — coordinating community‑led research and shared learning
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Science Ceilidh / Community Knowledge Matters — supporting accessible data visualisation and community‑centred research
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Moray Alcohol & Drugs Partnership (ADP) — embedding lived experience in rights‑based improvement
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Moray Community Justice Partnership (CJP) — using lived experience to inform justice system change
The work is collaborative by design. Each visual is developed with input from people who understand the local context and want to make information easier to use.
Collective Voice insights feed into the project through:
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Peer support conversations
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Lived Experience Panel contributions
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Community events
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Recovery Together sessions
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Charter of Rights engagement
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MAT experiential interviews
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Feedback gathered by partners across Moray
These insights are then sorted, themed and visualised using CHIME (Leamy et al., 2011), rights‑based frameworks and community‑led design principles.
WHY COLLECTIVE VOICE MATTER TO THIS PROJECT
The Data Visualisation Project exists because community members and partners told us that Collective Voice insights are powerful — but not always easy to access or use in everyday practice.
People asked for:
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clearer ways to see what themes are emerging
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tools that help connect lived experience with decision‑making
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visuals that support rights‑based conversations
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accessible formats for people who prefer images over long reports
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ways to bring multiple feedback loops together
This project responds directly to that need.
Collective Voice provides the data, stories, and themes. The Data Visualisation Project provides the tools that make them visible, accessible and meaningful.
Together, they strengthen Moray’s ability to use lived experience as system intelligence.
WHAT HAS COME FROM THIS PARTNERSHIP SO FAR
Through this collaboration, we have:
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Developed early prototypes of visual tools
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Created accessible visuals that help people understand emerging themes
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Supported rights‑based conversations at events and workshops
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Strengthened shared understanding across partners
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Built confidence among community members who can now see how their experiences shape change
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Identified opportunities for improvement that were not visible through other feedback routes
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Launched the first public beta of the Collective Voice Data Visualisation Tool