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The ethical challenges facing researchers in the era of big data and social media - a free IJMR event

10 October 2013

We’re launching a new type of event at the MRS on 19 November - the IJMR Evening Meeting.  This follows on from the success within last year’s IJMR Research Methods Forum of two sessions based on papers that had recently been published in the journal.  The first such event will feature Daniel…

‘Fit for purpose’ - the researcher’s mantra

04 March 2014

In 'We can do better' - the Viewpoint in our latest issue (Vol.56 Issue1) - Reg Baker addresses a question posed for a panel he served on at last September’s ESOMAR Congress:  “Do we need to get over ourselves and stop worrying too much about representativeness, as opposed to delivering new insights?”  To do…

Opinion polling in the EU referendum: Challenges and lessons

04 January 2017

Simon Atkinson provides commentary on a seminar held at the Royal Statistical Society, 8 December 2016, which was jointly hosted by the British Polling Council, the Market Research Society and the National Centre for Research methods.The seminar was held to identify the main lessons learned from polling conducted in the…

Integrated insight - paradigm shift or tipping point?

15 March 2018

On the 22nd February the MRS held in central London its first one day conference devoted to data analytics, ‘Data Analytics and Insight’. With over 180 delegates it was the largest one-day conference ever held by the MRS, showing the big appetite for knowledge in this field and complements other…

The meaning of research?

17 March 2014

Last year in an earlier blog I referred to a comment by Joan Bakewell published in ‘The Guardian’ some years ago (2003):  "…surveys themselves need checking out. They are not value-neutral, laboratory-style findings.  "They are often done in the street – in bad weather – by people with clipboards, who would prefer…

2011 Census: the end of the census as we know it?

22 November 2013

UK researchers: this is a call to action! We’re now in the middle of ONS’ consultation on the options for the future of the UK Census.I’ve blogged on this before, but it is very important that the views of the market research sector are heard on an issue that is vitally…

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