Overview

I can help with research administration and project management to free up your time, leaving you to focus on the tasks where you add most value.

Services

QUALITATIVE SERVICES

RECRUITMENT SUPPORT & SCHEDULING

• Whether you are recruiting in-house from lists or using recruiters, I can help
• Liaising with recruiters or fieldwork agencies, checking profiles
• Email recruitment from lists (no telephone recruitment)
• Setting up screeners (e.g. using Google Forms, Momentive, Alchemer)
• Scheduling interviews or groups, setting up calendar invites, sending out NDAs and consent forms
• Processing participant payments (e.g. using Ayda or Wise)

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• I keep everything running smoothly, and everyone updated
• Creating and updating project plans
• Planning, logistic and venue booking
• Shared drive management and filing systems
• Keeping spreadsheets and team members updated
• Client updates and communications
• Troubleshooting

ONLINE COMMUNITIES

• An extra pair of hands when you need it most!
• Uploading participants to online communities
• Monitoring progress, chasing up non-responders and replacing with fresh participants when needed
• Processing participant payments (e.g. using Ayda or Wise)

TRANSCRIPTION

• Remote live note-taking, notes, notes & quotes, smart verbatim transcripts

QUANTITATIVE SERVICES

• Setting up simple online questionnaires
• Data inputting
• Charting
• Adding charts, titles, base sizes etc. into PowerPoint presentation templates
• Data checking and proofreading presentations

About

I WORKED IN MARKET RESEARCH FOR TWELVE YEARS PRIOR TO STARTING TS RESEARCH ASSISTANT, INCLUDING NINE YEARS AS A RESEARCH MANAGER AT A MAJOR HIGH STREET BANK.

In 2001 I graduated with a BSc (Hons) Psychology from the University of Leeds, and I have fifteen years’ experience in research in the financial, education and social research sectors. My career has spanned everything from recruiting respondents and coding questionnaires to influencing business decisions through insight – and I have worked both Clientside and agency side.

I started a transcription business in 2016. After more than a year of working with independent researchers and learning what they need support with, I launched my Virtual Research Assistant business in 2017.

When I started my business, I had two primary school-aged children. I blinked somewhere along the way and I’m now mum to a teen boy and a tween girl.

When I’m not supporting independent researchers I can often be found outside in nature, walking in the sunshine or snow with my family and our border terrier. I also love reading, growing veggies in my garden, and baking sourdough bread.