Resources Library by ANA

Survey of the future workshop

This workshop challenges you to imagine and realise the 'Survey of the Future'. With the tools of research shifting, we want to help you re-evaluate how you conduct survey research, and put the learning to the test in real-time with real research.

Catalogue: Congress 2018

Author: Alexander Wheatley

Company: Kantar

September 23, 2018

Nothing else matters

Clients love qualitative researchers for one very strong reason. Underneath the sheen of being complex data guzzlers, we love simplicity. For all the emphasis on big data and the complicated web of sales, share, customer satisfaction data; someone...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2015: Creative! Collaborative! Cool!

Author: Madhumita Chakraborty

November 18, 2015

Insight mining with positive psychology

Positive affect has been shown to increase creativity and problem-solving (Isen et al, 1987) and interventions developed from positive psychology, the scientific study of well-being, have been shown to increase engagement, verbal fluidity and...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2013: Brilliant Transformations

Author: Stacy Graiko

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

November 20, 2013

Less facts, more fiction: Expanding research's mind

For years, the value of research has come under scrutiny because we have tended to place significant value on the mechanics of what we do, as if somehow, by seeking to justify and explain research's purity and rigour, we are able to hike up its...

Catalogue: Congress 2013: Think Big

Authors: Leanne Tomasevic, Elizabeth Lonergan, James Ebdon

September 26, 2013

Doing more with less

Recession can prompt unusual levels of creativity. We need to do more with less. Researchers need to increase their business impact. The presenters argue that the way to reach this for qualitative research is by crossing three boundaries;1) they...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2012: Informing Strategic Decision Making And Action

Authors: Charles Hageman, Tom De Ruyck, Annelies Verhaeghe

Company: Air France-KLM Group

November 8, 2012

Can survey gaming techniques cross continents?

The last years has seen a proliferation of more creative ways of asking questions in online surveys. More recently the idea of gamification has exploded onto market researchers' consciousness along with new ideas on how questions can be asked in...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2012: Asia Kaleidoscope

Authors: Duncan Rintoul, Jon Puleston

April 17, 2012

Spinning a yarn

This paper addresses some of the differences between older and younger brains and how they code information. It takes the reader on a journey of creative techniques that can help researchers move beyond rational claims and elicit deeper feelings that...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2011: Increasing Value Through Simplicity

Author: Sarah Hamburger

March 20, 2011

Research World (September 2009)

In this issue, we unabashedly celebrate the creativity of research. This time, we are rummaging through the toolboxes of anthropology, ethnography, behavioural economics and the neurosciences and allying what we find with new technologies to produce...

Catalogue: Research World 2009

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

September 1, 2009

Research World (April 2009)

What are memes and what’s the idea behind this first guest-edited edition of Research World? Memes are contagious ideas spread between people through speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable means. Richard Dawkins coined ’meme’ to...

Catalogue: Research World 2009

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

April 1, 2009