The MRS/ICG Award For Independent Consultants 2021

20 May 2021

ENTRIES FOR THIS HAVE NOW CLOSED. FINALISTS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED Have you got what it takes to shine? Share what you’ve been up to and let independent consultants reveal their value. Open to any market research micro-business (3 employees or fewer). You must be...

Surfing the wave of the pandemic: Freelancers and Covid-19

28 Apr 2021

Thank you to all ICG members who were involved in the development of this article in Research Live. We’re glad to hear how useful the ICG has been to its members during these exceptional times. “The ICG has helped provide a strong support network for him...

East-based ICG members meet up

04 Jan 2021

At lunchtime on 11th December, East-based ICG members held our second virtual meet-up via Zoom. Six ICGers were in attendance – Andrew Long, Arthur Fletcher, Carol Raithatha, David Spenser, Liz Montgomery and Martyn Richards. Martyn writes: the planned discussion...

Winner is announced of the 2020 MRS/ICG Award for Independent Consultants

08 Dec 2020

Congratulations to ICG member Dan Young of Shed Research Consulting as the winner of the MRS/ICG Award for Independent Consultants 2020! Dan’s submission was called ‘You don’t need new research to generate growth: how we used insight synthesis to help...

Virtual meet up for ICGers in the East

24 Nov 2020

East-based ICG members have met physically in the past, though not for a while, for obvious reasons.  At lunchtime on 6thNovember, we had our first virtual meet-up, courtesy of Zoom. Seven ICGers attended – Andrew Long, Carol Raithatha, Caroline Southard,...

Kudos to ICG meet-ups

10 Nov 2020

ICG member Anumita Sharma tells us about a productive ICG speed dating session which ended up with her landing a fascinating project. “The lovely David Spenser of Direct Dialogue and I met on one of the ICG online speed dating events and we got talking about a...