MRS 2006 Conference Awards
Best Paper Award
Sponsor 
Winner: Katja Maggio-Muller & Malcolm Evans: Culture, Communications and Business: The Power of Advanced Semiotics
Finalists:
- Roy Langmaid, Charles Trevail & Ben Hayman: Reconnecting the Prime Minister
- Anjali Puri: The Web of Insights! The Art and Practice of Webnography
Best Presented Paper Award
Sponsor 
Winner: Daniel Wain for his presentation during Pitch, Performance and Profit Part Two
Finalists:
- Mike Imms and Audrey Niven for Connecting with Clients: Rethinking the Debrief
- Roy Langmaid and Charles Trevail for Reconnecting the Prime Minister
- Tom Peck for his presentation during Pitch, Performance and Profit Part Two
Best New Thinking Award
Sponsor 
Winner: Anjali Puri: The Web of Insights! The Art and Practice of Webnography
Finalists:
- Graeme Trayner: Open Source Thinking: From Passive Consumers to Active Creators
- Sally Webb & Steve Wills: Measuring the Value of Insight. It Can and Must be Done
Best Newcomer Award
Sponsor 
Winner: Marie Laver for her participation in Childhood Obesity: Issues and Insights
Finalists:
- Anna Pierce for her participation in The Value of Peer Research
- Penny Roy for her participation in Access to Justice for Ethnic Minority Communities: Crossing the Cultural Divide
Special Contribution to Conference Award
Sponsor 
Winner: Marc Brenner for organising and chairing Pitch, Performance and Profit Part One
Finalists:
- Pete Comley for leading the training workshop Gaining Competitive Advantage with Online Panels
- Mark Earls for chairing the Word of Mouth session
MRS Fellowships
Philly Desai, Keith Dugmore, Richard Goosey, Kevin McLean, Clive Nancarrow, Penny Steele & Frances Yelland
MRS Gold Medals
Tony Cowling & John Samuels
MRS Silver Medal
Winner: Andrew Zelin & Roger Stubbs - Cluster Sampling: a false economy?
Finalists:
- Bobby Duffy, Kate Smith, George Terhanian & John Brenner - Comparing data from online and face-to-face surveys
- Klaus Backhaus, Robert Wilken, Markus Voeth & Christina Sichtmann - An empirical comparison of methods to measure willingness to pay
 Research Magazine Awards
Best Agency
Winners:
- Flamingo International
- FreshMinds
Finalists:
- Nunwood
- Opinion Leader
- Simpson Carpenter
- Synovate
Best New Agency
Winner: Spring Research
Finalists:
- Charterhouse Research
- Essential Research
- Promise
Best Research Campaign
Winner: Agencies: Research International & Oxford Strategic Marketing; Client: Vodafone
Finalists:
- Agency: Acritas; Client: Lloyd’s of London
- Agency: GfK NOP; Client: Simplyhealth Group
- Agency: Simpson Carpenter; Client: Honda UK Ltd
Innovative Employer of the Year
Winner: FreshMinds
Finalists:
- Hall & Partners Europe
- Research International
- Saros Research Ltd
Research Newcomer of the Year
Winner: Ruth Buchanan (Royal Mail Group)
Finalists:
- Louise Cameron (Incisive)
- Paul Dennis (GfK NOP Technology)
- Ruth Stevenson (The Audience Business)
- Sarah Robinson (QA Research)
Prosper Riley-Smith Effectiveness Award
Winners:
- Liz Owen (Opinion Leader)
- Chloe Salmon & Caroline Whitehill (Acacia Avenue) & Rene De Coning (BP)
Finalists:
- Sam Buckley (Firefish)
- Howard Frost (Farrugia Research & Consultancy)
MRS/BIG Business Research Effectiveness Award 
Winner: Alex Johnston & Peter Totman (Jigsaw Research) - Application of ethnographic techniques in a B2B context
Finalists:
- Conrad Persons (Research International) - Creativity in Business: Getting a shot at the big ideas
- Vicki Tanner (Maitland, Tanner & Associates) - Using investment-based techniques to prove the ‘bottom line’ value of research and give CEOs what they want
- David Skelsey (Synovate) - Watching the advisor at work: how to be a fly on the wall
ISBA Award 
Winner: Jem Fawcus (Firefish) - Courvoisier: earning respect
Finalists:
- Chloe Salmon & Caroline Whitehill (Acacia Avenue) & Rene De Coning (BP) - Oil and water: how to cross the divide between corporate energy companies & global environmental issues
- Catherine Wilkerson, Helen Law & Caroline Bates (Hall & Partners) - Bringing research together
- Karen Swan (Trinity Mirror Regionals) & Joanne Wilbraham (GfK NOP Media) - Beamer
MRS Applications of Research Award (Research Effectiveness Case History)
Sponsor 
Winner: Gillian George & Mikhail Gerchuk (Vodafone) & Juliet Strachan (The HPI Research Group) - How research influenced the conception and design of a radically new mobile proposition
Finalists:
- Rachel Baynes & Drew Halliwell (Abbey) & Mark Turner (GfK NOP) - Delivering results through insight – Abbey’s ISA campaign
- Accent & Royal Mail - Quality of service and pricing survey
- Opinion Leader - National Pensions Debate
- Quaestor & GMPTE - Total journey
- Vodafone, Oxford Strategic Marketing & Research International - Vodafone DPS
MRS Public Policy/Social Research Effectiveness Award
Winner: Opinion Leader - Deliberative consultation: your health, your care, your say
Finalists:
- Alan Cooper (The HPI Research Group) - Branding the Isle of Man: the contribution of research to developing a nation’s identity
- QA Research - Young people, support services and the transition to adulthood
David Winton Award
Sponsor
Winner: Ron Johnston & Richard Harris - Do survey respondents and non-respondents differ?
Finalists:
- Andrew Zelin & Roger Stubbs - Cluster sampling: a false economy?
- John May - Ladders, stars and triangles
The Worshipful Company of Marketors Award
Winner: Catherine Ashman (GfK NOP)
MRS Accredited Masters Prize
Winner: Mia Lorenz
MRS/ASC Award for Technology Effectiveness
Winner: Research Reporter, Insight Marketing Systems
Finalists:
- E-Tabs AutoGraph, E-Tabs
- Fizz Library, Nunwood Knowledge Systems
- Pulsar Web (with Leap & XtabML), Pulse Train
MRS/AURA Insight Management Effectiveness Award 
Winner: Vodafone, Oxford Strategic Marketing & Research International - Vodafone DPS
Finalists:
- Rachel Baynes & Drew Halliwell (Abbey) - Joining up insight to drive action at Abbey Board level
- Nunwood & Post Office - Using technology & partnership to increase the influence of insight across your business
- Visit Britain - From intuition through research to insight
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