Medical and health research are a major part of Surveylet’s work, but Delphi methods are also widely used in policy, education, technology foresight, sustainability, workforce planning, organizational strategy, stakeholder engagement, and live group decision-making. This page brings Surveylet’s non-medical applications and public references together in one place.
Delphi studies are helpful whenever a team needs structured judgment from experts or stakeholders, especially when the topic is complex, future-oriented, uncertain, multidisciplinary, or difficult to resolve through a simple survey or meeting.
Surveylet can support multi-round Delphi, real-time Delphi, expert prioritization, scenario development, rating studies, stakeholder consultation, and structured feedback workflows across many non-medical domains.
The references below highlight public non-medical Delphi, real-time Delphi, foresight, policy, sustainability, and stakeholder-consensus work. Where a publication or project directly identifies Surveylet or Calibrum, that connection is stated explicitly; other entries are included as broader examples of how Delphi methods are used outside healthcare.
Prioritize options, identify gaps, and gather structured expert input for government, international development, and public programs.
Explore future scenarios, emerging technologies, innovation priorities, and long-term uncertainty.
Develop competencies, future skills, professional standards, and education priorities.
Support stakeholder consensus around sustainability, food safety, water reuse, climate, and environmental programs.
Help leadership teams and expert panels align around strategic priorities, risks, and decision criteria.
Rank research gaps, funding priorities, collaborative opportunities, and future research directions.
Use structured expert input to develop plausible futures, opportunities, threats, and action roadmaps.
Collect and synthesize input from multiple groups while reducing dominance effects and preserving structured feedback.
Help larger groups evaluate options, identify priorities, surface disagreement, and record a structured decision without relying only on sequential open discussion.
Delphi is especially useful when evidence is incomplete, perspectives differ, participants are distributed, or an ordinary meeting risks being shaped by hierarchy or the loudest voices.
Participants can contribute candidly without hierarchy, seniority, status, or group dynamics dominating the conversation.
Panelists can review controlled group feedback, comments, ratings, or rankings before reconsidering their responses.
Teams can define consensus thresholds, identify disagreement, and document uncertainty in a transparent way.
Large lists of ideas, risks, criteria, recommendations, or research questions can be narrowed into an ordered set of priorities.
Experts and stakeholders can participate remotely across organizations, regions, institutions, or countries.
The method provides a clear process that can be documented for reports, boards, sponsors, grant funders, or publications.
In a room with 15, 20, or more participants, it can be difficult to hear every perspective, challenge a senior colleague, and still reach a clear outcome within the agenda. Surveylet Live Consensus Sessions let participants respond independently, review anonymized group feedback, and reconsider their responses while the meeting is still in progress.
Collect input from the full group at the same time rather than limiting the discussion to those who have time or confidence to speak.
Let participants disagree or suggest alternatives through anonymized responses instead of openly challenging another attendee.
Show the group where views already align, where disagreement remains, and which issues actually require discussion.
Browse the full collection or focus on a field of application. These examples span published Surveylet and Calibrum studies, methodological references, and wider non-medical Delphi applications.
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This study used Surveylet for a real-time Delphi with 43 global sports-media experts assessing how emerging technologies, environmental pressures, and audience expectations may reshape the sports-media value chain by 2030.
This international urban-agriculture Delphi used the Calibrum platform to gather expert assessments of sustainable food-production systems, their potential contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and future technological and non-technological drivers.
The researchers implemented a real-time Delphi in Calibrum with 50 international experts to explore how digitisation and emerging technologies may change craft professions, skills, opportunities, and challenges.
An internet-based real-time Delphi using Calibrum Surveylet involved 47 purchasing and supply-management experts. Surveylet provided immediate quantitative analysis, controlled feedback, anonymous iteration, comments, and consensus/stability measures.
This European Commission industrial-technology roadmap incorporated a Delphi exercise conducted with the Calibrum online tool to gather expert judgments across textiles, construction, chemicals, metals/steel, ceramics, and other energy-intensive industries.
This widely useful methods paper reports that, after reviewing web-based providers and conducting a market screening, the authors selected Surveylet as their preferred Delphi platform and discusses its features, service options, and practical setup considerations.
This technical methods paper identifies Calibrum among available web-based real-time Delphi platforms while explaining practical lessons from Delphi-based scenario research. It is a methodological software reference rather than a project-specific Surveylet deployment.
This methods report compares tools for generating ideas and exploring consensus and lists Surveylet by Calibrum as a paid platform supporting both Delphi and real-time Delphi, noting its use across European Commission projects.
This two-round e-Delphi, conducted with 31 practitioners from 24 humanitarian organizations, was administered electronically using Calibrum Surveylet to identify and assess future outsourcing developments in humanitarian logistics.
This peer-reviewed disaster-relief logistics study reports a two-round Delphi with 31 experts administered electronically using Calibrum Surveylet, examining best practices and future developments in logistics outsourcing.
This conference study used Calibrum as its Delphi platform in two rounds with 69 communications leaders to identify emerging trends, competencies, personal attributes, and organizational responses likely to shape the communications profession.
The researchers facilitated their real-time Delphi using SurveyLET (Calibrum). Experts evaluated agreement and feasibility, viewed immediate aggregated results with distribution charts and median/interquartile-range statistics, and reviewed anonymous comments before deciding whether to revise their judgments.
This conference material describes a 47-item, eight-week real-time Delphi conducted with the Calibrum system and 37 international experts from diverse domains including health and aged care, higher education, government, and business. The work produced a structured reporting guide for Communities of Practice.
This important real-time Delphi methodology article compared existing software-based tools and included Surveylet among the evaluated platforms. It is a strong public reference for Surveylet’s position as a professional real-time Delphi platform used in academic and applied foresight work.
This high-profile space foresight exercise used a Surveylet-supported Delphi-style expert consultation to explore the future space landscape over a 100-year horizon, including space exploration, settlement, technology pathways, policy, investment, and international collaboration.
The STRINGS project mapped development pathways for science, technology, and innovation in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
A Delphi study focused on the evolution of information and communication technologies and their social, industrial, human-resource, and research-policy implications.
This project investigated the future role of social sciences and humanities in Europe and their relationship to social demand and research policy.
IMMERSE focused on selecting indicators for a dashboard related to the integration of refugee and migrant children in Europe.
Tourism leaders worked toward a roadmap for a safer, greener, and smarter future for travel and tourism.
This study proposed criteria and metrics that could be used to evaluate and compare recycled water programs.
FESTOS focused on future security threats posed by emerging technologies, including ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, new materials, and converging technologies.
The ELOST project developed policy recommendations to increase awareness and usage of e-government services among low socioeconomic status groups.
EUFORIA used foresight methods, including a cross-national multilingual online Delphi survey, to examine the path toward a European knowledge society.
A panel with diverse expertise was invited to make and justify forecasts through Surveylet, then revise based on anonymized forecasts from other panelists.
The MobiCom project involved industrial partners in scenario planning and insight generation related to the future shape of mobile service markets.
SCOPE generated 10-year scenarios to guide decisions about future research and technological development cooperation between Europe and other regions.
This multi-region foresight exercise involved experts and civil-society participants in exploring the yucca agricultural chain and technology-transfer mechanisms.
A Delphi-based scenario study with more than 100 experts focused on long-term objectives for business leadership education.
This work brought together diverse knowledge and stakeholder values as part of a broader integrated assessment of carbon capture and storage technologies.
SAFE FOODS focused on an integrated risk-analysis approach that considered consumer concerns and transparency in food risk management.
This exploratory Delphi study identified how higher-administration leaders in the United States and Poland define ethical decision-making and understand its influencing factors.
They involve uncertainty, multiple perspectives, and questions where one dataset or one expert is not enough.
They bring together experts, stakeholders, practitioners, policymakers, or affected communities.
They use organized rating, comments, feedback, revision, and prioritization rather than informal discussion alone.
Support repeated rating rounds, feedback, comments, and consensus tracking.
Allow participants to review structured feedback and revise responses during an active survey window.
Collect structured input on priorities, scenarios, statements, criteria, and recommendations.
Support comparisons across expert groups, roles, sectors, regions, or stakeholder categories.
Use page sequence randomization and other allocation workflows when survey fatigue or exposure balance matters.
Collect structured quantitative ratings, rankings, qualitative comments, and rationale for decisions.
Prepare responses, comments, consensus status, and round-by-round results for analysis, stakeholder reports, steering committees, publications, and decision materials.
Use Real-Time Delphi to collect simultaneous input, display anonymized group feedback, support reconsideration, and document a decision during the event.
Some teams only need Surveylet as a specialized Delphi platform. Others want help designing the study, structuring the questionnaire, configuring Surveylet, managing rounds, analyzing results, preparing reports, or supporting a live session.
For teams with their own methodology lead that need purpose-built Delphi and real-time Delphi administration, participant access and response tracking, ratings and comments, consensus feedback, and data exports.
For teams that want help with study design, questionnaire and scale refinement, Surveylet configuration, launch and round management, analysis and reporting, or live consensus session planning and facilitation.
Calibrum can provide Surveylet as a specialized Delphi platform, help design and report a multi-round or real-time consensus process, or support a structured live decision-making session in policy, education, strategy, technology, workforce planning, forecasting, sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and other non-medical fields.