When a client sub-contracts a research project they have to make decisions about who they want to work with and who they think will get the job done. Imagine you could choose a university, or an agency with hundreds of staff, or a boutique firm with ten staff. These are...

I've been going it alone for more than a year and a half now, a sole trader running my own small professional services consultancy business. It can be frustrating to feel like small fry, to have people going on about 'real jobs' and asking when I'm going get round to...

You may recall that earlier this year I contributed to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee inquiry about the Scottish referendum question. Now I'd been all concerned with getting the question right because everything I've learned in my education and career tells me that how you word a question...

I can't get enough of the 7 up series, a TV documentary following a group of people across the course of their lives. The first instalment was in 1964, when a group of 14 seven-year-olds from different backgrounds were selected to participate with the original premise "give me...

I have worked in public opinion polling in the past, and indeed have polled on Scottish independence before, so a few people have asked me what I think about the question that has just been released by the Scottish National Party that is soon to be used in...