Resources Library by ANA

The vitality of qualitative research in the era of blogs and tweeting

The research landscape has never been richer in techniques and technology, nor has there been such a bewildering choice of methods in the history of Consumer Research. For most of the past 50 years or so, the debate about alternative methods has...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2010: Foresight on Moods and Thoughts

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Simon Patterson

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

November 18, 2010

Touching smells, sniffing colours, tasting odours

This paper looks at two aspects of fragrances which roughly correspond to sociological and psychological perspectives.In the first section, it examines the sense of smell and the human experience (sensory and social) of fragrances.The second section...

Catalogue: Fragrance 2007

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Luigi Toiati

Company: Focus S.r.L.

November 14, 2007

Meeting the emotional needs of healthcare consumers

Recently we examined the characteristics and emotional values in British pharmaceutical ads targeted at doctors. Through the images, symbols and messages, ads address reader’s values, needs and ‘ideology’ (or outlook on their job and...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2006

Author: Alan Branthwaite

February 6, 2006

Getting closer to citizens

Relationships between governing bodies and the people are fundamental, but have often been taken for granted. Over recent years in the United Kingdom, the policy and strategy laden world of local and regional government has been struggling to find...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Public Sector Social Research 2004

Authors: Adrian Britten, Alan Branthwaite

May 9, 2004

Synaesthesia

Current concepts of brands pay full attention to the rational and symbolic but often overlook their sensory, experiential or synaesthetic aspects. This paper helps open up this complex and fascinating topic by identifying the principles of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Qualitative Ascending Conference 2002

Authors: Peter Cooper, Alan Branthwaite

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

November 10, 2002

A new role for projective techniques

Marketing and consumers have changed since Projective and other Elicitation techniques were introduced into market research half a century ago. The objectives and rationale for employing them then maybe less valid now. Equally, the wholesale,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Conference 2001: The Business Value Of Emotional Intelligence

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

October 28, 2001

The medium is part of the message

This paper is based on the results of a global qualitative project covering 14 countries across North and South America, East and West Europe,Asia and Australia. Advertising clearly plays a substantial role in the construction and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Advertising Conference 2000

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Karin Wood, Maria Christina Moya Schilling

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

October 15, 2000

Music in advertising

This paper examines the creativity of music and its effectiveness in advertising using information from a large database of ad pre-testing as well as case histories to illustrate the effects in more detaU. Music works ‘episodically’ to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Rosi Ware

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1997

Capturing the complexity of advertising perceptions

This paper is concerned with finding appropriate ways in which qualitative research can examine how advertising is perceived so that we can extrapolate accurately from the research situation to reactions while watching ads on-air. An American...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Authors: Alan Swindells, Alan Branthwaite

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

December 1, 1995