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How can LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® be used in qualitative market research?
2021-11-11 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
This webinar is generously sponsored by iPoint Market Research.

Join us to hear from Per Kristiansen, a Master Trainer and co-founder of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and ICG member Giulia Fabrizi, a certified practitioner of this method.
Per will explain the scientific foundations of the method and Giulia will take you through some interesting applications of the method for qualitative market research (business and consumer).

More specifically, this webinar will take you through;

The neuroscientific foundation of LSP. The foundations of the method are inspired by several theories including Piaget’s constructivism, Papert’s constructionism and neuroscience. In extreme synthesis, when you build with your own hands, you activate connections between hand and mind that can awaken knowledge; this knowledge allows you to see a situation from a different point of view and offers new elements to face and manage it, drawing on the enormous wealth of skills and competences that are not always used, following the patterns of experience.
LSP as a business and consumer tool. LSP can help teams t analyze the brand vision and the brand/company DNA. LSP can also help consumers uncover the values they associate with the brand/company. It can be also applied to so many other requirements, e.g. customer or patient journeys, support in NPD or service development, or store layout development.

Per Kristiansen
Per Kristiansen is currently a partner in Trivium, a Copenhagen based consultancy. He joined Trivium in 2006. Per focuses on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and delivers facilitator training programs and works directly with his own clients. He works all over the world. Together with Robert Rasmussen, he is the author of the book “Building a Better Business with the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method”, published in July 2014. For information on the LSP courses, visit: https://seriousplay.training/
Giulia Fabrizi
Giulia Fabrizi is a qualitative market researcher and ICG member, working in this field since more than 20 years. She loves to connect various disciplines and explore new fields in which qualitative research can be blended and infused.
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How To Make Networking Work For You (On and Offline)
2021-10-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Perspective Research Services

In this interactive webinar, ICG member Deanne Gold, iPoint Market Research, who successfully networks herself and has presented several talks on the subject, will talk us through what it means to network, what to do/avoid, how to successfully mesh on and offline interactions, and specifically, how to apply this to the market research industry.
We encourage attendees to share their stories and thoughts during this session.

About Deanne/ iPoint
Deanne, together with her husband and business partner Marc, run iPoint and are both ICG members. iPoint Market Research is a dedicated team of fieldwork recruiters and project managers with a passion for excellence.

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Lunch&Learn with Field Notes
2021-10-20 13:00 - 13:30
We welcome Field Notes (also ICG members) for our next Lunch&Learn, a half-hour lunchtime slot where members can informally hear about how organisations can help them in their work.
All Lunch&Learn presenters offer ICG members a significant and exclusive discount. Please support them by attending their Lunch&Learn and hearing more.
About Field Notes

Founded in 2013, and developed by experienced researchers and ethnographers, we have been at the forefront of mobile research technology since its inception.
Field Notes lets you capture and manage quality self-shot video from people around the world via their phones – whether it’s customers, employees, research participants, healthcare professionals or patients.
Via Field Notes you can document what your target audience thinks & feels, sharing their real life perspectives, opinions and stories, harnessing the power of mobile technology.
Over the years, we have connected with more than 35,000 participants worldwide and proudly delivered +2,500 projects in 40 languages
Why Field Notes are a perfect fit for micro independent consultants
We are a small and passionate team and we are proud to be an independently owned business; with our background in research, we are always happy to share tips and advice on how to use the platform and run any kind of mobile projects.

Our platform and app are built with ease of usage at their core allowing you to successfully and efficiently connect with any audience
We have an easy and stress-free costing model with no hidden fees, for extra peace of mind.
Why you should attend this Lunch&Learn
In our L&L session we’ll show you our participant app, the backend platform and we’ll provide an overview of all the different functionalities they support.
We’ll describe key usage scenarios and will share tips on how to leverage the Field Notes features to boost participant engagement and minimise dropouts. Expect a fun, inspiring and interactive session.

THE EXCLUSIVE AND SIGNIFICANT DISCOUNT BEING OFFERED BY FIELD NOTES

A £250 discount on either your first or next project (if you’ve already hired them). For a typical UK project with 10 participants £250 off would equal 50% off!

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This Too Shall Pass: Navigating Change with a Sense of Humour
2021-10-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Qualzy (formerly Web Creator Suite), a platform which supports all your asynchronous project needs including diary tasks, UX research, video blogging, international projects, long term communities and much much more.

We live in an ever-changing world and most of us fear change, so how do we survive?
We are faced with Covid, Brexit, climate change and a re-emergence of ABBA (wait, is that relevant?), and somehow
we try make sense of it all.
In this session Greg Arthur, Transformation Coach, Lifeology, provides you with practical tips and guides that will not only help your business navigate change, but, more importantly, it will give you tools to be more change resilient.

About Greg

Greg started adult life out of integrity with himself and in a career he had no interest in, and so has seen the value in striving for authenticity in all that we are and do.
This quest to guide people towards their truth, whatever it may be, has led him to be a coach, mentor and change agent. He works in companies and with individuals to help improve self-esteem and productivity and to neutralise
stigma, both internally and externally, as well as navigating them through change.
His path has been varied, providing him with business and project management experience, as well many years in Corporate Social Responsibility, where he discovered the joy and skill involved in marrying the needs of communities and projects with corporate donors.
He has learnt that compassion and empathy are key to understanding the stories and needs of those you wish to assist. He now offers his time to peer mentor people living with HIV.
Originally from South Africa, he is now based in London and runs his own business, Lifeology, with his best friend.
He is a keen runner and swimmer (these help him to clear his mind), a casual yogi and love a good book. You will also catch him often out of London as he feeds his curiosity about culture and the world through travel.

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ICG Webinar: Your small business meets sustainability
2021-10-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Glow, powering fast, affordable and robust consumer research through it’s on-demand insights platform. Whether you need to understand a new category, get under the skin of a target audience or conduct ongoing tracking, Glow can provide quality responses, quickly. Glow’s easy to use platform and real-time data visualisation give you the power to get research right, and the confidence to act on those insights, quickly.

As business owners, we constantly seek out ways to run a better business: being more efficient, avoiding waste, being a good employer, making a difference in our communities, wanting to be recognised as a good brand, and laying the path to a successful future. Much of this is common sense, and yet it’s common to find mismatches between our personal values and the work we do.
After realising there was such a mismatch in his own business, Jon Gibbins has spent nearly 3 years integrating more sustainable and ethical practices into his small digital company. He continues to find more ways to improve his business based on a triple bottom line approach: people, planet and profit. Pairing his training experience with his passion for addressing the climate emergency, he now supports other small business owners to do the same.
This webinar will discuss the themes of sustainability, ethical finance and green technology, and include toolkit suggestions, helpful advice and achievable changes you can start using today.
About Jon Gibbins

Jon is a digital accessibility consultant who helps organisations make digital products more accessible to Disabled people. He’s known for his practical approach and deep technical understanding, built on two decades of experience.
Concerned about climate change, our planet and its people, he integrates ethical and sustainable practices into his work and supports other small business owners to do the same.
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ICG Webinar: Behavioural Economics: A Practical Guide For Market Researchers
2021-09-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Qualzy (formerly Web Creator Suite)

The webinar will be run by ICG member Emma Woodley, Truth Be Gold Behavioural Insight.

The webinar will demonstrate the practical application of Behavioural Economics to your wider market research work.
More specifically, it will cover:

An overview of Research Methods (psychometric, biometric, neuro-metric, explicit) which can be used
The BE Process: Friction to Fluency to Interventions
Some Case Studies to bring all of the above to light
3 Steps to take clients on this journey

How to avoid focusing on the ‘what’ and stick to the ‘why’
Turn the science from Friction to Fluent
Take them on a journey don’t throw them in at the deep end.

Current and Future Direction of this type of research
Where to learn more (2 mins).

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About Emma and Truth Be Gold

Truth be Gold are the pioneers of deep behavioural insight. The majority of consumers’ decisions are made in the subconscious mind. They use the latest thinking from Cognitive Neuro-Science and Neuro-Psychology to develop ways to access this information that cannot be accessed via traditional research techniques.

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From breakdown to breakthrough: a lived experience of stress-induced burnout and what SMEs can learn from this
2021-09-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Respondi

We invite you to join James Pickles in conversation with the ICG; how he got there, why he burned out, where he is now, and what this all means for SMEs today.
This webinar will help us recognise and embrace ways of addressing our mental wellness – at work and beyond.
James is a personal and performance life coach and mental health advocate who talks very powerfully about his own experience of stress, burnout and breakdown when he was in a successful and growing company. He is here to share with us some of the valuable, and sometime painful, lessons he has learned – and continues to learn – about how admitting that he wasn’t fine, speaking out and then seeking help, enabled him to survive, rebuild and breakthrough to another career as an independent.
As he is also now a fellow independent consultant, running his own small business, he has a particular perspective to offer the ICG and hopes that, by telling his story and through this discussion, you will be encouraged to reflect on your own experiences and ask plenty of questions. Questions that can lead to dialogue, a recognition and acknowledgement of issues and a realisation that you don’t have to cope alone.

He’ll share his full experience of the effects of stress-induced anxiety and offer some insights into what he’s learned, what he wishes he’d known, what advice he would give his old self and how employers and employees and can take ownership of their well-being at work and at home.
See here an interview upon which the talk is based:
https://www.significantinsightsmedia.com/how-did-you-get-there-james-pickles/
You’ll have the opportunity to login anonymously if you wish to, and ask questions via Slido if you wish to remain anonymous.
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This event is proudly partnered with the MRBA.

The MRBA exists to provide financial support and advice to individual colleagues experiencing real hardship, who work or have worked in any aspect of market research, and who are based in the UK. This can also include the financial support for those that require mental health services, that might be too slow or too costly to access as standard. We offer support with respect, sensitivity and in confidence.

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ICG Speedos
2021-09-23 10:30 - 12:30 | Online
A New Collaborative Initiative That We’d Like You To Join

Introducing ICG Speedos – A collaborative, competitive, fun event where ICG members look at business or research briefs in small teams and imagine they were going to work together on that project.
An opportunity for two lucky clients to hear how ICG experts would respond to these challenges in a no-obligation, no pressure environment.
Here’s how the event works
This event will take place on an online platform on the morning of Thurs 23 September.
Two clients will share their business research challenge consecutively (either live or ‘sample’).
ICG members attending this event will be allocated to a team (4 teams, 5 members in each). Each team will be have a mix of research disciplines and skill sets.
Teams will have half an hour to come up with a quick response to each of the two client briefs.
Each client will be on hand to answer your questions and at the end of half an hour, all competing teams will present their responses. The client will then choose their favourite.
Here’s what you will get out of joining this event (as an ICG member)

A chance to respond to two different client sample briefs
A chance to suss out fellow ICGers to see if they would make good people to collaborate with in the future
A chance to get your brain cells firing – fast!
It will be fun!

Here’s what you will get out of joining this event (as a client)

An opportunity to hear about different ways of approaching your challenge
A chance to suss out ICG expertise

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We plan to run more of these events in the future… but it would be great to see you at the very first one!

ICG's AGM
2021-09-23 09:15 - 10:00 | Online
Join us to hear about what we’ve achieved, our plans for the future and our financial situation. A great opportunity to ask us any questions and make suggestions for the organisation.
Draft Accounts for 2020-21 can be found here (accessible to members only).
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Lunch&Learn with Internet Research Bureau (IRB)
2021-09-15 12:30 - 13:00 | Online
Join David Winter of IRB and hear more about how this B2B global panel provider can help you succeed.

As with all our Lunch&Learn presenters, IRB are offering ICG members a unique and exclusive discount*, so diarise this 30 minute session today.
More about IRB and what it offers you
If you need online sample, particularly business sample rather than consumers:

IRB is a niche B2B global panel provider, growing since 2011
They have worked directly with many ICG members and would like to offer you the same personal service
They have exceptionally high quality data for B2B projects (average 10% bad data vs 40% industry average)
They offer fast turnaround, quick intelligent communication and really deliver on their commitments
They have a genuine double opt-in panel.

*IRB Offer – Exclusive to ICG members only
50% discount for first project with IRB
10% off all subsequent projects

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The Research Club - Summer Party at the Kia Oval
2021-08-12 18:00 - 23:30
The Research Club Celebrates the return of its Face to Face Events with a Summer Party at the Kia Oval in August.
After months of lockdown The Research Club are delighted to be returning to the famous Kia Oval Cricket Ground for its annual rooftop summer party.

Tara Mackay, Global Events Manager at The Research Club, stated “This will probably be the only F2F Market Research get together this summer, and we can’t wait to welcome everyone across the industry to the Corinthian Roof Terrace on Thursday 12th August. This world class venue has put in place all the safety measures and procedures, to ensure that guests are able to network safely, with ample space, fresh air and excellent hygiene throughout the venue. With special thanks to our Platinum sponsor Paul Wealleans and Panelbase for helping make this event happen.”

To contribute to the return of face to face events the Market Research Society are kindly providing a welcome drinks reception on the night, so it’s “First drinks on MRS!”

Tickets are limited and likely to be in high demand, so do book them now while Early bird prices are available. More tickets may be added should restrictions ease further, following the 19th July.

A contribution from each ticket sale will be donated to CORe – Colour Of Research along with some fun fundraising on the night to support the fantastic work they are doing to promote diversity and inclusivity within the MR community!

For more information and to purchase a ticket please click here – https://theresearchclub.com/events/london-summer-rooftop-party/

Using video insight to empower small agencies and freelancers. Tools, tips and tricks for effective and commercial research
2021-08-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Web Creator Suite

Using video in the market research world comes in many forms, and with skills in video varying across researchers and agencies, Dan and Roseann of The Word Is Out (also ICG members) want to share their knowledge in delivering effective and commercial insight with video.
This webinar will answer the following;

What does best practice for video in research look like?
How can I get a client to invest in a video project?
What tools are available to researchers besides online communities?
How do we make video insight commercial?
How can I be more innovative with video?

With a rise in remote ethnography in 20/21, more and more respondents are available to complete online video calls and diary tasks. However, getting clients and participants engaged and receptive to both remote and in-person video projects can bring its own challenges.
The Word Is Out think that there is even more scope to be innovative and creative in our work as researchers. We’re only just scratching the surface on what we can achieve using video. They want to arm fellow freelancers and small agencies with a variety of tips and best practice from their experience in the video industry to put into practice when producing their own creative insight stories.
About The Word Is Out

Specialists in video-driven, qualitative insight, at The Word is Out we fuse our experience in market research and the video industry to deliver engaging and innovative outputs to our clients. We also work with brands and fellow researchers to offer a specialist expansion of videography to their existing team.

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Asking For Trouble: Understanding What People Think When You Can't Trust What They Say
2021-07-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Generously sponsored by MIS Group

It’s only natural to ask people what they think. After all, you can’t launch, create or do something of value if you’re not interested in the opinions of your intended audience.
Trouble is, the asking doesn’t always help.
Drawing on entertaining examples from his new book, Jon Cohen, Founder of Kindling UK and ICG member reveals why you can’t trust what people say and suggests an approach to asking that will help you get closer to the truth.

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Following The #Covid Conversation Using MR Tools & Talent
2021-07-22 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar is generously sponsored by Web Creator Suite

In this webinar, Matt Gibbs, Founder and MD of Bayes Price (and ICG member), will be sharing knowledge on a collaboration project between Bayes Price and Red Centre Software – a cutting-edge MR tech provider, based in Australia.
They’ve been tracking the #Covid conversation since in Jan 2020, gathering over 20 million tweets (for free) via Twitter’s API.
Through presenting this case study, this webinar will:

Empower researchers with the knowledge they need to access, analyse, and visualise any Big Qual databases, not just Twitter, using many of the tools and skills they already have.
Emphasize how the wider world of BI data users have processing and analysis challenges, to which, our industry’s tech and talent is a perfect fit.
Promote our real-time free-access visualisation, as another contribution from our industry to the World’s Covid insights.
Prove how international SME collaboration can punch way above its weight.
Inspire ICG members to get involved and help expand the project!

The webinar be a 3-part presentation:

Part 1 will discuss the tech aspects of gathering twitter data, SQL storage, and the benefits of flowing that data into a market researching environment.
Part 2 will unpick the automated techniques that provide a ‘forest-eye view’ of such a vast amount of unstructured text. Syuzhet Sentiment Scores, NRC Emotion Lexicon, Machine Learning solutions, and tracking conversation sub-topics.
Part 3 will bring things to life with some interpretation and insight. The analysis and visualisation of what is probably the loudest global online conversation ever recorded. The Covid pandemic.

Please see the viz here

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About Matt

Matt is an ICG member who enjoys conversation, music, beer & crispy nibbles. If you can throw cricket into that mix…more’s the pleasure!
He’s Founder & Managing Director of Bayes Price: specialising in survey data to offer collection, analysis, visualisation & insight to the Market Research & Business Intelligence communities. He enjoys merging established theory with contemporary technique, promoting innovation and collaboration throughout the industry.
As Vice Chair of the Association for Survey Computing (ASC) Matt volunteers to organise conferences & events that bring research, technology & statistics together. Matt’s also Chair of the TSAPI Steering Group, a global initiative to define a single API standard for transferring survey data.
He’s very keen to help facilitate communications between anyone interested in better connecting MR with the wider BI world.

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matt@bayesprice.com
www.bayesprice.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gibbsmatthew/

Lunch&Learn with Accu-Scribe
2021-07-21 13:00 - 13:30 | Online
So much more than a transcription agency, and a supporter of the ICG for several years, Accu-Scribe will be taking you through the range of services they offer, all designed to support you in running your micro-business.
As with all our Lunch&Learn presenters, Accu-Scribe also offer ICG members a significant and exclusive discount; in this case, a 10% discount on all their services for ICG members.
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Join us at 1pm on Weds 21 July for 30 mins. No need to pre-register.
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Food Love: The Different Ways The British Love Food
2021-07-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Web Creator Suite

Come see Kath Rhodes and and Ambreen Aziz (two of the three researchers from Qual Street) present a smorgasbord of food findings from their self funded research on food. In this webinar they explore current food trends as experienced by 8 participants all living their love of food in different ways.

They cover food trends that every food business should know about AND talk about the ways of researching food that deliver deep insight.

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About Qual Street

Qual Street is interested in the ‘business of life’ and the insights that the everyday brings us.

Desk Research: The ‘Poor Relation’ or Hidden Gem?
2021-06-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Perspective Research Services

Kevin Simmonds, Advantage Market Intelligence (and ICG member) will take us through, what desk research is, myths and misconceptions, types of desk research, where desk research can add value, how to conduct it and talk more about how it impacts on communication and client relationships.
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Kevin Simmonds

Kevin founded Advantage Market Intelligence Ltd in 2014.
He has 25 years’ market research experience spanning multiple agencies and client-side European and global intelligence roles for a Fortune 500 company.
He has conducted desk research for fifteen years, principally in market and competitor analysis.

ICG Summer Party: It's All About The Food And Wine
2021-06-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Online
This event is generously sponsored by iPoint Market Research

Join us on the evening of Thursday 24 June to;

Cook three relatively simple ‘Asian bites’ as demonstrated by Tariq Mirza , SampleNinja (you may wish to cook these dishes before the event, but if not, please ensure that all ingredients are prepared beforehand)
Hear more about the sorts of wines that complement these dishes by ICG member Mike Brown
Green Bird
Eat and drink, ask questions, share thoughts
Join everyone in a light-hearted quiz about food and wine.

Not our usual face-to-face summer party but one that we think will be perfect for a summer’s evening entertainment.

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BELOW ARE THE THREE RECIPES, VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS, AND RECOMMENDED PAIRED WINES FOR EACH. PLEASE PURCHASE THE INGREDIENTS AND WINES BEFORE THE EVENT. YOU MAY WISH TO PREPARE THE DISHES IN ADVANCE. IF NOT, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT ALL INGREDIENTS ARE READY/PREPARED.
RECIPE 1: CHAAT POTATO
Recipe 1 – Chaat Potato
There is no video demonstration here as the recipe extremely simple to follow.
Recommended wine: German White Wine – Gewurztraminer Spatlese (Lidl)
https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/the-summer-wine-tour/gewuerztraminer-spaetlese/p42627

RECIPE 2: MASALA SCRAMBLED EGGS
Recipe 2 – Masala Scrambled Eggs
Video demonstration
Spanish Rose Wine – Tempranillo/Garnacha (Tesco)
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/292401344

RECIPE 3: PAKORAS
Recipe 3 – Home Made Pakoras
Video demonstration
German White Wine – Riesling/Scheurebe (Lidl)
https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/the-summer-wine-tour/riesling-scheurebe-rheinhessen/p42628

Here’s a quick video intro about the wines we’ve recommended as well.
Trailer for wine pairing – ICG Summer Party 2021

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Through the glass darkly - BIG Forum
2021-06-22 11:00 | Online
BIG Forum presents: Through the glass darkly… sifting through the rubble of Covidian economics with Dave Skelsey, Strictly Financial
We are very pleased to announce our June BIG virtual Forum and welcome back a popular friend of BIG, Dave Skelsey, who will be giving his view of the past 12 months and it’s impact on research. Some of you may remember previous editions of this tour de force, in which Dave gave us his, often wry, insights into the economic world and predictions for its future.
This year will be no exception, as Dave takes an overview of the impact of Covid on the global economies, gives his view on where, when and how the economy might recover, and the economic/geopolitical headwinds that might arise, and forecasts as to which social and economic changes might ‘stick’ post Covid. All this neatly wrapped up into the implications on the world of research.
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Why Cultural Insight Is Important For Research
2021-06-17 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar is generously sponsored by MIS Group

This webinar will be presented by ICG member Felicia Schwartz, China Insight.
It will explore the crossover between two areas Felicia is active in – cultural insights and market research. Although we often use market research to uncover cultural insight it is interesting to explore whether we shouldn’t integrate culture into the design of research from inception on. Felicia routinely come across briefs that make assumptions or ask questions that are not culturally right for my region (greater China) or that miss cultural nuance when pulling together the analysis.
Although her examples will all be taken from China, she hopes others will share other cultural examples so that everyone can think together about integrating cultural nuance into our research projects and about how to make clients more alive to this topic.
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About Felicia

Felicia has pursued an international career in branding working for global communication agencies Ogilvy and Dentsu. Her work took her from France to China, where she spent close to 14 years and specialized in strategic planning and consumer insights.
Currently based in between Beijing and London, Felicia is the founder of Chinainsight.co.uk an insight consultancy that helps brands and companies understand the Chinese consumer through cultural insight research and maximize their product positioning, product innovation and communication for the Chinese market. She has experience across a number of sectors such as automobile, beauty fast moving consumer goods, luxury and retail.
Felicia is a graduate with Dean’s list merits, from Duke University in North Carolina, USA. She obtained her Master’s degree from Sciences Po, the prestigious Institute of Political Science in Paris, France.
She speaks fluent German, English, French and Mandarin Chinese.

Recent Published articles:
BEAUTY TRENDS AMONGST CHINA’S GENZ
Publication date : MAY 2021 published by : Canvas8
China’s GenZ are the cohort leading trends in beauty post Covid. They are curious, novelty driven and conscientious consumers. How will they shape the beauty sector?
CHINESE HOMES POST COVID
Publication date : DEC 2020 published by : Canvas8
How has the Covid crisis shaped preferences in terms of living ?

Award for Independent Consultants - Your Questions Answered
2021-06-14 10:00 - 10:30
Come along to this informal session on Monday 14th June, 10am, to ask Arthur Fletcher (co-judge on the judging panel) and Matt Kirby (Award, committee member) any questions you have about entering this Award.

A great opportunity for anyone who’s thinking about entering this prestigious award. Deadline for entering is Monday 5th July.
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Life after Lockdown: How to undertake safe face-to-face research
2021-06-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by MIS Group

Following the easing of restrictions across the UK’s four nations, clients are increasingly interested in resuming face-to-face data collection. What does this mean in practice for both qual and quant practitioners? What kinds of face-to-face data collection are you allowed to do? And how best to do it?
Debrah Harding, MD of MRS, will lead you through the current Government and MRS guidance on safe working and will discuss how the guidance is due to develop as more restrictions are lifted during the summer.
An important webinar for anyone working with face-to-face research methods.

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Lunch&Learn with Ivy Exec
2021-05-26 13:00 - 13:45 | Online
Join us on Weds 26th May at 1pm BST to hear more from the great team at Ivy Exec, and hear from fellow ICG members about their experiences of them.

Our Lunch&Learns are fantastic opportunities to keep up to date with new products and services within the market research and business sectors, and benefit from the great, exclusive-to-ICG-members discounts that we’ve negotiated with them.
Ivy Exec is a global Expert Network of more than 2.4 million C-Suite Executives, Key Opinion Leaders, Policy Influencers, and other high-level decision makers. The experts possess great decision making authority, industry influence, and specialized expertise that is of tremendous value to research and consulting firms looking to conduct qualitative and quantitative studies across the world. With member representation from 191 nations, Ivy Exec experts come from a wide variety of different industries, ranging from for-profit corporations to governmental agencies and non-profit organizations.
Why you should attend this Lunch&Learn
The session will give you insight into the following:

Where to find C-Level Executives and other niche audiences for your research
How to make them engaged, returning participants with the right methodology
Why it is important to think of alternative ways to compensate them for their time.

The benefit that Ivy Exec are offering ICG members exclusively
All ICG members launching their first project with Ivy Exec will receive a 10% discount on the fees and 5% on any project after that. The discount is on the total fee and will be applicable on any project, regardless if the size is N=5, N=55, or N=155.
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ICG Webinar: Re-Defining What It Takes To Be Effective At Selling
2021-05-13 11:00 - 12:00
This webinar is generously sponsored by MIS Group

What immediately springs to mind when we say the word ‘selling?’ How do you feel? How good do you think you are at it? Who is good at it and why?
Sales is one of the oldest professions there is and it’s endured for a reason. Sales should be seen as adding value, not a ‘dirty’ word. But to change how others see it we must first walk the walk and take pride in what we do.
This webinar by founder and MD of the London School of Sales, Vinit Shah, will take you through 7 sales skills to help you develop a personal toolkit, growth mindset and the confidence to excel in selling and influencing.
More specifically:

Selling to Different Personality Types
Asking Effective Questions
The Importance of Storytelling
Handling Objections
Creating and Maintaining Urgency
Negotiation
Closing the Sale

About Vinit Shah

Vinit has been working in commercial roles, helping businesses to successfully meet their strategic objectives and sales targets, for more than 25 years.
His experience on the ground, of having done the job that you are doing, combined with his own continuing professional development and particular passion for selling, ed him to develop my own sales approach.
His career has been all about building high-performance teams, inspiring, motivating, and coaching sales professionals like you to deliver on their numbers and great customer service while focusing on continuous improvement.
His whole approach is about empowering individuals and creating a culture of trust and knowledge sharing that ensures you don’t negotiate with yourself or what you believe in. He wants you to be proud to sell and others to value what you do.
that’s why he founded London School of Sales. It’s what led him to write ‘Slice’, which is all about encouraging aspiring sales professionals to harness the power of personal development. And it’s why he’s on a mission to make one million sales people proud to sell. Why not be one of them?

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Essential Sales Skills: Discount Code (12 months access) – Enrol : ICG Exclusive Offer – Essential Sales Skills – London School of Sales (lsos.co)
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ICG Members' Lunch&Learn with CMNTY
2021-04-28 13:00 - 13:45
CMNTY have joined our Member Benefit Advertiser community by offering ICG members a significant and exclusive discount.
Come and hear more about their platform in our next Lunch&Learn on Weds 28th April at 1pm.
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ICG Webinar: Co-defining Freelancing Best Practice
2021-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
This webinar is generously sponsored by Saul Dobney, Dobney.com, Cxoice interview manager – CATI For All Sizes

A chance to go through the freelancer best practice principles and guidelines which are based on qualitative research with both hirers and freelancers and themes from the ICG email forum (e-group).
ICG member Tom Woodnutt has spearheaded this initiative and will lead the webinar.
In this interactive webinar, we would value your input to see if you agree and whether anything is missing, with the aim of developing an collective ICG position on this matter for all researchers, whatever discipline.
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New Members Get-Together: Maximise Your ICG Membership
2021-04-12 11:00 - 11:30
Join other members who’ve joined the ICG in the last year or so, introduce yourselves, and hear more about how you can maximise your ICG membership.

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Skilled looking - Ethnography, Photography and Documentary Film in Qualitative Research
2021-04-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session is generously sponsored by Web Creator Suite, probably the best online qual research platform that you might not have heard of yet… long term communities, discussions, homework tasks, live chats, product testing and much more.
ICG member Joe Bonnell has recently completed a MA in visual anthropology and will share some ideas, tips and reflections to like-minded researchers and open a discussion for those members want to know more.
After many years working as a qualitative researcher, conducing focus groups and interviews, using projective and enabling techniques, Joe found himself growing increasingly interested in longer-term, participatory and ethnographic research methods. At the same time, he wanted to be able to incorporate film and photography into his work as a way of reporting and communicating findings. So he took a sabbatical and invested in some professional development to learn some new skills and ways of working.
Joe would be happy to share some of what he learned during the MA using examples of my work and discuss how others could go about incorporating film and photography in to their work.
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An intro and some background – who Joe is, the journey that led him to this point – why visual anthropology?
A brief intro to visual anthropology and ethnography
Conducting research with a camera, and the idea of “skilled looking”
Some photographic examples of my work to illustrate some key principles
A short film (15 mins)
Followed by a discussion and Q&A

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About Joe

Joe is an award-winning qualitative researcher with over 20 years’ experience working with a wide range of commercial, charity and public sector clients in the UK and internationally. Joe’s research career began aged 16, working as a CATI interviewer for IPSOS! This was followed by research roles in media and advertising agencies, a specialist public-sector research consultancy and an agency specialising in international development research. Along the way, Joe qualified as a primary school teacher and an ILM level 7 leadership coach. In 2013, Joe combined his research experience with teaching and coaching to set up OpenQuestions, which specialises in building the qualitative skills of researchers working on international development projects. Joe has designed, conducted and overseen research from Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, Nottingham to Nigeria, Kent to Kenya and many places in between. He continues to run qual project in the UK and abroad.
In 2018 Joe took a sabbatical to complete an MA in Visual Anthropology at The University of Manchester’s Granada Centre, which is recognised as the world’s leading centre for visual anthropology. Joe graduated with a distinction in 2019, specialising in ethnographic research and the use of documentary film and photography as both a research method and as a means of communicating insight.

ICG members' 'Speed Networking' event
2021-04-01 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Many of you attended our 5 previous speed networking events last year.
Back by popular demand, we bring you another one. A great opportunity to spend 10 mins at a a time with another ICG member, informally chatting about what you do and who you are. We would encourage you to treat this lightly – no hard sells please – but instead, be open to meeting other independents. You never know who you’ll end up working with – or even forming a friendship – on the back of it.
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Curious Leadership – Strategies For Driving Growth Mindsets
2021-03-26 13:00 - 13:45 | Online
Employee engagement, productivity and company culture have taken a pounding during the pandemic. There are calls to redefine success. It’s uncomfortable challenging ourselves and growing as leaders.
In this lunchtime session, Jane Hales from Sapio Research will share with you 4 key principals of her own journey, tools she has used and aha moments she’s experienced.
The aim of her 30 min talk is to help you develop an environment that

Fosters your growth mindset,

And for those of you with a team create a place that is

Non-hierarchical
Collaborative

Meet Jane & Sapio Research

Despite the appearance of grey hairs, Jane is new to the entrepreneurial world. She’s only spent 13% of her business life running her own business. She now has a thriving company culture she’s really proud of. Sapio Research was the top supplier for its key clients in a recent survey. It won the UKBA Gold award in 2020 for a professional services. And it grew 22% during the pandemic taking on additional staff.
Sapio Research is a full-service, London-based consumer and B2B market research company. It delivers valuable evidence to support clients understand their audience, make vital business decisions relevant to their market, and create extraordinary headlines and content.
Launching in 2016 with 3 co-founders, Sapio now has 10 employees wo are on track for hitting £2m turnover this year. It has an international client list of top PR & Marketing agencies and frequently household name brands too. Jane is a MRS mentor and an active member of the Entrepreneurs Organisation, which she represents on the Business Action Council. The whole team is committed to using its skills for good though ESOMAR sponsorships, charity campaigns and other initiatives.

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