Latest features
Twitter: a network of influence
Who’s setting the agenda for the MR debate on Twitter? Brian Tarran joins the dots to find out.
Taking MR to the next level
Rajat Paharia, founder of gamification firm Bunchball, talks to Brian Tarran about how to inject life into the research experience.
Spending plans
Monique Drummond of Relish Research hears from research buyers about their priorities and expectations for the year ahead.
Kantar Media boss on tracking online word of mouth in China
Last week Kantar acquired Chinese social media monitoring firm CIC. Research spoke with Kantar Media CEO Jean-Michel Portier to hear how researchers are dealing with the rapidly evolving social media landscape in China.
The top 100 UK agencies – and how they stack up
You’ve seen our UK industry infographic. Now, here’s the full list of the UK’s biggest agencies, ranked by 2010 turnover.
The battle of substance and style
Designers and journalists are coming up with some striking ways to tell stories and convey data visually. But a new book suggests there is something missing from the field that researchers could provide.
'I didn't expect Twitter to have such a great influence on our profession'
Research Tweeter of the Year Tom De Ruyck on all things Twitter: its evolution from curiosity to content curation tool, how it helps in his career and what we’ll all be talking about on the #MRX hashtag in 2012.
Research in 2012: new methods, stronger structures and less PowerPoint
Forrester’s Reineke Reitsma looks back on 2011 and sets out what researchers should watch out for in 2012.
Making sense of chaos
We speak to NatCen’s Gareth Morrell about the challenges of researching the August riots.
And the #MRX Tweeter of the Year is...
InSites Consulting’s Tom De Ruyck tops the public vote, but who was the Most Retweeted of the Year and what were the community’s most talked-about buzzwords? Announcing the winners of the #MRX Tweet Awards 2011.
From the print edition
Whatever next?
Visualising what tomorrow will bring is crucial to what researchers do. But it’s also notoriously difficult. Robert Bain takes a look at the business of prediction.
Are we there yet?
John Gambles of Quadrangle and David Smith of DVL Smith have each chalked up 25 years in market research. James Verrinder asks them to reflect on how far the industry has come and where it’s heading.
The trolley and the IV
Violence is always a problem in A&E departments, and never more so than at Christmas. Robert Bain meets the ethnographers who went to see for themselves.
