The MRS ‘Diversity and Inclusion Programme’ comes together under the umbrella of a ‘Manifesto for Opportunity’. This means giving everyone an opportunity to participate, both people working within research companies and participants in research.
MRS is committed to providing practitioners with the necessary tools to ensure inclusive research, insight and data collection. In line with this, MRS has issued an update about its current best practice guidance and plans to expand and update its guidance.
More information, including links to current guidance, is available here.
WEBINAR: The Future of Nat Rep, 1 July
In February, the Representation in Research surveyed MRS Company Partners to understand the practice of ‘Nationally Representative’ research in the UK. Join MRS for a webinar on 1 July, to hear the results of the survey and further debate on the topic.
Find out how to join the webinar here.
Jane Frost, CEO of MRS said of this initiative:
"How can we give “People a voice to Power”, as a British Cabinet Minister once defined our mission, if we exclude some people from the chance to be heard? How can we claim to be a profession if we are not always striving to ensure our methodologies are the best they can be, to help our clients get the clearest insight? Real inclusion is no longer something that can be brushed away. Voices are rising, our job is to ensure they are heard and get to be understood."
Purpose of the steering committee
MRS is committed to ensuring that minority groups are appropriately represented in research samples for both quantitative and qualitative research in line with the national landscape in the UK. To this end, as part of the MRS Diversity and Inclusion strategy, a steering committee has been set up with the following aims:
Resources produced by the committee
As part of this work, the committee has produced the following resources that research practitioners looking to make improvements in this area may find useful:
Additionally, the MRS Senior Client Council have produced guidelines on sampling, methods and language, that can be downloaded here:
Reports on the following are also available:
If this topic is something that you are interested in, and would like to discuss it further, please contact rebecca@cobalt-sky.com
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