News 2021

Peter Bartram’s new book ’The Life in Research’ is being published on 12th April and can be ordered from Amazon and leading bookshops. The book is mainly a light-hearted compendium of candid memories from across the last 50 years in research and should be of special interest to Research Network Members.

On 24th March it was the turn of Sheila Byfield to deliver our monthly NED Talk. She chose as her subject ‘The dark and the lighter sides of advertising’ and it proved to be a highly entertaining romp through some of the industry’s more questionable efforts.

A new e-book from the Archive of Market and Social Research (AMSR), entitled Post-War Developments in Market Research, is now available for download free of charge at the Archive’s website

It’s a sentiment that’s been oft repeated over the years and now the Archive of Market and Social Research (AMSR) has its own take on the matter. At a recent virtual event to celebrate its first five years of existence, speakers discussed ways in which the archive was being used by market researchers, research academics and, increasingly, modern historians.

The MRBA has launched its annual auction, which will this year be centered around the International Day of Happiness on 20th March. The auction will be held online and items are available to bid for now, and until 30th March 2021.

For February’s NED talk, Phil Barnard took us on a virtual trip to the village that he’s called home for many years now – Brompton Regis in Somerset, within the Exmoor National Park. It was an affectionate look at the many rewards and occasional frustrations that Phil discovered when he moved from Berkshire to the South West.

A fascinating article published on the AMSR website in December looks at US opinion polls in the run-up to November’s presidential election.

Our first NED talk of 2021 took place on Tuesday 19th January, when Neil McPhee took to the microphone on the subject: ‘Musicology as a Socio-Cultural Journey… A Personal Timeline’.