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Research, insight and intelligence techniques are continually evolving, providing new and cutting-edge ways to get to the heart of the consumer and citizen. Research leads the development of these new techniques challenging and influencing the business world.

Understanding cutting edge thinking and innovative techniques ensures the research world is continually evolving offering the business world new and engaging ways to understand consumers and society.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (Supply-side researchers)

1. Develop research speciality(s) as required e.g. qualitative, quantitative, statistics, co-creation, semiotics, neuroscience, etc

2. Lead development and understanding of new research techniques

3. Understand, use and implement new research and insight techniques

4. Apply ideation techniques with relevant stakeholders (internally and externally) to inspire new work

5. Share understanding of new thinking and innovative techniques by sharing knowledge and skills with others

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (Client-side researchers)

1. Develop research speciality(s) as required, e.g. research techniques, broader marketing mix requirements, leading the application of insight, etc

2. Evaluate and deploy the development of new research techniques as required

3. Evaluate and select new research and insight techniques as appropriate

4. Evaluate and deploy ideation techniques (internally and externally) to inspire new work

5. Share understanding of new thinking and innovative techniques by sharing knowledge and skills with others

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AI: Powering-Up Insights Conference 2026

London

The how, why and when of integrating AI into research

AI is ubiquitous across the research cycle, but how can researchers ensure their partnership with it optimises outcomes for customers and still delivers gold standard outputs?

Jan
22
2026

Thursday
09:00–17:00

Closing the Quality Gap: Introducing the Global Data Quality (GDQ) Feedback Loop

Webinar

Are you ready to help set a new industry standard for data quality? The GDQ Feedback Loop webinar is your gateway to finding out more about the data quality Feedback Loop which has been devised by MRS in partnership with SampleCon.

Jan
29
2026

Thursday
15:00–16:00

Creating Compelling Insight Stories

Virtual training course

Create stories that showcase the brilliance of your insights and result in highly engaged audiences.

Feb
03
2026

Tuesday
13:30–15:30

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Feb
10
2026

Tuesday
13:30–15:30

2/2

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