Senior Management
Social Research ¦ Market Research ¦ Behavioural Insight ¦ Evaluation ¦ SROI
Social Research ¦ Market Research ¦ Behavioural Insight ¦ Evaluation ¦ SROI
At M·E·L Research, we understand the challenges and intricacies of conducting thorough and impactful research. Our dedicated team is poised to offer unparalleled support across various research requirements, adhering strictly to the highest ethical standards, ensuring every project we undertake is trauma-informed and fully integrates Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) principles, and utilising our own in-house team for the full range of fieldwork and analysis approaches.
Ethical and Flexible Approach
Our team possesses vast experience with external ethics processes, including advisory roles on University ethics boards and with the Social Research Association. We offer a highly flexible service capable of rapid mobilisation to meet even the most stringent deadlines, all while upholding the highest standards of data protection and information security.
Technological and Creative Excellence
We provide access to cutting-edge data collection methods, including Recollective, an innovative online qualitative platform. Additionally, our in-house graphic design and animated video production capabilities ensure your research reaches and engages a broad audience, extending well beyond academic circles.
Quality and Compliance
Our service delivery is fortified by our Quality Management System (QMS), certified as ISO9001 and 20252 compliant, ensuring total quality control. As an MRS Fair Data Partner, we adhere to core principles including ‘Privacy by Design’ to satisfy the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 and UK GDPR requirements. Our accreditation under the Cyber Essentials Plus standard for Information Security and the use of a secure File Exchange platform further exemplify our commitment to safeguarding data.
Expert Recruitment and Engagement: Capability to recruit and engage large numbers of participants, including those from harder-to-reach or vulnerable groups.
Experienced Researchers: Our qualitative researchers are adept at using a variety of participatory methods with diverse stakeholders, specializing in research with vulnerable individuals.
Innovative Approaches: Access to online qualitative platforms enabling anonymous participation through multimedia uploads, activities, and virtual focus groups.
Comprehensive In-house Solutions: From survey design, scripting, and setup to execution through telephone, face-to-face, and online panels, ensuring thorough coverage and insightful data collection.
Advanced Statistical Techniques: Expertise in Max-Diff, Conjoint, Pricing analyses, and sophisticated approaches like cluster analysis and segmentation.
Diverse Evaluation Approaches: Expertise in process, impact, realist, empowerment evaluations, and more, utilising techniques like ‘most significant change’, ‘ripple effect mapping’, and ‘outcome mapping’.
Complex Programme Evaluation: Specialised in evaluating complex programmes involving multiple stakeholders, incorporating the voices of those with lived experience through innovative means like peer researchers and panels.
Extensive Facilitation Skills: Offering hands-on training, advice, and consultancy to stakeholders across the spectrum, from community members to senior leaders.
Services
Doorstep engagement provides a direct and effective way for councils, housing providers, utilities, charities and other public service organisations to reach people in their own communities. A well-designed doorstep engagement programme can do more than distribute information. It can help organisations understand why people are not using a service, address practical barriers, provide tailored support and encourage lasting behaviour change.
Services
In order to maximise the impact of campaign investment M.E.L Research can test early creative ideas, through to final copies of creative. We can offer feedback on all types of creative including TV, posters, press, online, social media and radio. This can be done using various methodologies depending on the type of feedback needed, and the type of creative.
Services
We specialise in large scale national polling to help policymakers and organisation leaders make informed decisions. Our accurate, reliable, and unbiased insights help to explore public attitudes on a range of social issues.
Services
We have considerable expertise in engaging with residents in order to provide local authorities with an understanding of local priorities, neighbourhood issues and the quality of local service delivery. We are passionate about giving residents a clear voice in shaping services and improving neighbourhoods.
Services
At M·E·L Research we believe that brand strength is built in different ways, but fundamentally being authentic to your brand identity throughout all contact points is essential.
Services
Our dedicated team is poised to offer unparalleled support across various research requirements, adhering strictly to the highest ethical standards, ensuring every project we undertake is trauma-informed and fully integrates Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) principles, and utilising our own in-house team for the full range of fieldwork and analysis approaches.
Services
The M·E·L Research Panel members take part in a variety of qualitative research, including one-to-one interviews, focus groups, and online workshops. Each project explores real-world social issues that matter, covering topics such as health, education, local government, and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), plus much more.
Services
We have over 35 years’ experience in running quantitative research studies for a range of public services clients; from residents consultations to health and well-being studies to Survey of Tenants And Residents (STAR) projects amongst others.
