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Young researchers unveil blog of industry secretsDate: 23 February 2006 The MRS’ R-Net group is to launch the first weblog for young researchers – giving the wider world a chance to discover exactly what makes today’s young researchers tick. Launched to co-incide with the 40 days of Lent, ’40 Days of Young Researchers: Giving up the Secrecy’ encourages client- and agency-side researchers to divulge information about their everyday working lives, in what is the industry’s first on-line diary documenting the excitement and frustrations of our new recruits. Sue Cardwell, 26, is an R-Net steering group member and the brains behind the blog. She explains: “What goes on in different research organisations can be a real mystery to the outside world. At R-Net we are often approached by peers in different industry sectors asking us exactly what we do, and why we do it. The ’40 Days of Young Researchers’ blog follows our Agenda for the Next generation seminar – encouraging young researchers to discuss the highs and lows of their job and hopefully dispel some research myths!’ The weblog gives contributors free rein to comment on any issues and share their inner thoughts. Whether it is championing the joys of their daily work, appealing for advice or voicing a bug-bear, the R-Net blog is the ideal forum. Sue continues: “The blog – and R-Net as a whole – is all about bringing young researchers together and encouraging people to work as a group to produce something we can all benefit from. Hopefully people will get as much out of reading other people’s diary entries as writing their own – and anyone of any age or sector is welcome to log on and take a read.” ’40 Days of Young Researchers: Giving up the Secrecy’ is live from Wednesday 1 March – but contributions can be made from now. Log on to http://www.r-netblog.blogspot.com R-Net is the MRS networking group for its younger members and those who are comparatively new to research. It welcomes researchers from agencies and client companies, and people working in related areas such as operations, data processing, marketing, advertising and academia. With members in more than 70 countries, MRS is the world’s largest association representing providers and users of market, social, and opinion research, and business intelligence. MRS serves both individuals and organisations who identify with its core values of professionalism, excellence, and effectiveness. It has a diverse membership of individual researchers within agencies, independent consultancies, client-side organisations, the public sector and the academic community – at all levels of seniority and in all job functions.
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