Call for entries
Calling all agents of change
The MRS Awards call for entries is now open. Don’t miss your chance to show the research world how you’re making a difference.
Award categories
Client of the year
The winner of this award will need to demonstrate the effective incorporation of the evidence gained from research into its business / operational strategy, helping deliver bottom-line improvements in their organisation. The winner could be from private, public or third sector.
Best In-house Team
Who should apply?Any in-house research or insight team which has had an exceptional year and whose work (including getting best value from external agency resources) during the 12 months up to 1 July 2012 has had a transformational impact on their organisation.
Best Agency (with a turnover above £20m)
Who should apply?The Award is open to any MR agency that can genuinely claim to have had an exceptional year and that operates within a recognised self-regulatory research framework (MRS Company Partner, employs members of MRS or other equivalent associations outside the UK).
Best Agency (with a turnover under £20m)
Who should apply?The Award is open to any MR agency that can genuinely claim to have had an exceptional year and that operates within a recognised self-regulatory research framework (MRS Company Partner, employs members of MRS or other equivalent associations outside the UK).
Best New Agency
Who should apply?Any MR agency that has been trading for no more than 24 months (up to 1 July 2013) and operates within a recognised self-regulatory research framework (MRS Company Partner, employs members of MRS or other equivalent associations outside the UK).
Best Place to Work
The winner of this award will be the business that can demonstrate innovative thinking, enlightened approaches and new initiatives that make their business a great place to work.
Best Innovation
This award is intended to single out the individual or organisation that has pioneered a methodology, product, service, process or initiative that can be hailed an innovation in research. The winning innovation should not merely be an incremental change in something already established in the sector but should be a genuine innovation. Its impact should be apparent and, at the very least, it should enhance the value of market or social research to clients and make a measurable difference ...
2012 winners
‘We needed another approach to panel recruitment’
ResearchBods founders Robin Hilton and Jonathan Clough had their own ideas about the best way to recruit research panellists – and they’ve built a successful new business off the back of them.
Room temperature
Dubit’s virtual focus group platform, The Clickroom, began life as an online hangout for kids. Peter Robinson takes us inside.
Defying the retail gloom
Times are tough on the high street but retail specialist ABA – one of our Best Agency winners – had a storming 2012. MD Alison Bainbridge explains how the firm bucked the trend.
Change for the better
Richard Jameson, MD of GfK NOP – our Best Large Agency winner – says research agencies must evolve to become broader information partners to clients.
Know their staff
Encouraging employees to develop their passions has put Best Place to Work winner Flamingo in the top ranks of market research employers.
Supermarket sweep
Sainsbury’s customer insight team – winner of our Best In-house Research Team award – contributes to business decisions ‘in a positive and inspirational way’. We queued up to ask some questions.
Raise your glass
Today marks the start of a seven-part series of articles profiling the winners of the Research Magazine/MRS Awards, kicking off with drinks maker Diageo – our inaugural Client of the Year.