Insights from the Best Paper at ESOMAR Congress 2023 exploring the metaverse as an opportunity for qualitative research. The authors detail their efforts to investigate the metaverse’s potential for market research, outlining the goals, research tasks, and challenges they encountered. […]
Moderator and healthcare specialist Laura Nozicka joins Mike Carlon for a discussion on how moderators can use podcasting to help grow their business. In this episode, Mike and Laura discuss Laura’s path to marketing research, how she got her moderating business off the ground, and how she’s using podcasting to grow her business as it becomes more mature. […]
The life of a qualitative researcher often has us flying in and out to new cities with little regard for the places we visit when conducting research. Nick Wise reminds us that “therapeutic recreation”—like absorbing the public art landscape on our travels—can help us transition from a mind that is always full, to an outlook that is more mindful of what else is out there. […]
Qualitative moderator Kelley Styring offers a provocative look at people who have navigated and overcome significant emotional and physical challenges in their lives and emerged to thrive. Through engaging stories, Styring shares five behavioral and attitudinal operational principles that qualitative researchers can apply to our own lives. […]
For qualitative researchers, even when we aren’t working in a gaming-specific vertical or courting a gaming company, it’s increasingly likely that gaming will become part of the work we do. Jason Rice offers tips on how to better understand the gaming world, and what strategies qualitative researchers must utilize to be successful in this industry. […]
Andrew Grenville explains a time-tested 5-step process for generating Eureka! moments from the insights generated in qualitative research. By adjusting our workflow to better accommodate these steps, we can optimize the quality and depth of the insights we generate. […]
Grounded in data and real-world experiences from the Year of Joy initiative, joy can be integrated into qualitative research as both a quantifiable metric and an intervention tool in research methodologies. Learn how the dual role of joy is setting new standards in participant engagement, data quality, and overall well-being, and providing actionable tips and insights for researchers and individuals to cultivate joy in various aspects of life. […]
Zoë Billington speaks with Rachel Lawes, PhD, about her inspiring journey discovering semiotics as a graduate student, to employing them in her work as a qualitative researcher. Learn what sets semiotics apart from other methods and how harnessing it can bring value to your own work. […]
Renee Hopkins explains that qualitative recruiting is trending toward complexity from many angles. Researchers are creating more complex screeners for longer, more complex projects with shorter, less-flexible timelines. Recruiters are using technology and social media to find participants with more specific demographics and from underrepresented groups. […]
Susan Bell repositioned her Sydney-based research agency as a specialist agency focusing on retiree insights, abandoning her years as a generalist researcher. Susan shares the story of how she settled on the retiree market and the challenges of becoming a specialist. […]
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