An overview of Russian regions and cities

06 Jul 2016

Russia is becoming an increasingly important research market – but is often a bit of mystery for us researchers. The country is vast, at 17.10 million square kilometers, and is the biggest country in the world. How do we choose where to go in such a big country?...

Social Media Intelligence as a Credible Research Method

06 Jul 2016

A Personal Perspective: Social Media Intelligence as a Credible Research Method Do you remember the day you used the internet for the first time? I still remember mine; it was a pretty unremarkable school day.  There were about 15 of us in my computer studies class,...

20 Habits of Brilliant Presenters

03 Jul 2016

Learning how to deliver an effective presentation is one of the fundamental business skills that we need to ensure that those findings and insights that we have slaved so hard to uncover are listen to, absorbed and acted upon. With many thanks to GoToMeeting blog here...

Facebook and recruitment – never the twain shall meet?

03 Jul 2016

Following an Egroup conversation, Tom Woodnutt has put together a short article that looks at the issues, value and risks in using Facebook for recruitment for quant and qual (mostly online qual projects).  Is it dangerous, or simply a new tool in our...

New General Data Protection Regulation

15 Jun 2016

This article, orginally published in February 2016, has been updated (October 2016) to reflect new developments… The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seeks to strengthen and unify data proection for indivdiuals within the EU, and also addreses export of...

Automatic Enrolment and how it affects small businesses

03 Jun 2016

If you employ someone and do not currently offer a pension scheme auto enrolment will affect you.  Act now. Under a law introduced in 2012 (part of the 2008 Pensions Act) all employers must eventually offer a workplace pension scheme and automatically enrol...