Pharmaceutical research is so rewarding—you’re contributing to the greater good of your communities—but it is also a very demanding industry to work in. In this article, we share the rewards, challenges, and scenarios in this field, so that you too might explore expanding your business into the vibrancy of pharma research. […]
Never Stop Learning When my seven-year-old complains that she hates school and learning, I routinely tell her that learning is not exclusive to school […]
I’d like to call out a few changes we’ve made starting with the summer issue. We’ve decided to pivot the Online/Tech Talk column to have more of an industry focus. Years ago, when online qualitative was “new,” it warranted its own feature. However, we realized that there was a lot of overlap between that column and our Toolbox feature and, in the spirit of bringing more value to our readers, we decided to craft a column that highlights a different vertical in every edition. We welcome Tom Neveril to the QRCA VIEWS team as editor of this new feature. […]
Margaret Heffernan says we can step back and learn from the very visceral experience of uncertainty that the COVID-19 pandemic threw our way. Margaret’s latest book, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future, is not only fascinating but very timely. […]
The pandemic, social unrest, and divisiveness do not have quick and easy solutions. Entering a new season, Caroline Volpe thinks of it as a time of renewal and growth […]
Well, here we are, a full year since our world (and industry) was upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past twelve months, we’ve experienced and witnessed anxiety, fear, outrage—fueled not only by the pandemic but also by social injustice. We must remember that the people we interview every day do not live in a vacuum; they, like us, can’t help but see, hear, and feel all of the flaws of the world that have been placed under a microscope, it seems, in the past year. […]
By Kay Corry Aubrey, User Researcher and Trainer, Usability Resources, Inc., Bedford, Massachusetts, kay@usabilityresources.net […]
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