Foreign Tongues – Principal Sponsor of the MRS Excellence Awards 2023

17th May 2023

The MRS Excellence Awards are a yearly event celebrating personal achievements as well as the new MRS Fellows.

Foreign Tongues is proud to be the Principal Sponsor of this incredible event, for the 6th consecutive year.

MRS Excellence Awards 2023

This event is renowned as one of the friendliest and most joyful MRS events of the year as the new Fellows are presented alongside the winners of the MRS Silver Medal Award, MRS Annual Conference 2023 Audience Award, MRS Advanced Certificate in Market & Social Research Practice Award and the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Changemaker of the Year Award.

The newest Award for ‘Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Changemaker of the Year’ was added last year to recognise individuals in the research, insight and data analytics sector who are making specific contributions to important diversity, inclusion and equality initiatives, either within their own organisations or as part of work they do in their wider communities. Winners will receive the MRS DI&E Changemaker trophy, presented by Truth, at the Excellence Awards lunch, a £500 personal thank you prize money, from Truth, a donation to their chosen charity of the value of £500 and be profiled on Research Live.

The finalists for the ‘MRS Silver Medal 2023’ and the ‘2023 Audience Award’ have now been announced.

The finalists for the 2023 Audience Award include:

  1. Stories with certainty: How can we position qualitative research as always essential, even when budgets are under strain?

Finalists:

  • Ed Nash, Qualitative Research Controller, Sky
  • Bridget Dalton, Director – Offer Development, Discover.ai
  • Chris Molloy, Co-Founder & Chief Client Officer, Brand Potential
  1. Being indispensable to the top table: How can insight help leaders navigate turbulent waters?

Finalists:

  • Fraser Hardie, Senior Advisor, Teneo
  • Catherine Hunt, Head of Analysis in Information Threats & Influence Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • James Sallows, CBIA Head of Transformation & Capability, Haleon
  1. The Alchemist’s Dilemma: How do we promote magic without undermining science?

Finalists:

  • Andrew Jerina, Head of Research, Flume
  • Paul Hudson, Founder & CEO, FlexMR
  • Rose Tomlins, Brand Director
  • Zoe Rufflels, Global Head, VP Insights Mars Pet Care

MRS Silver Medal Award

The finalists for the best paper published by the International Journal of Market Research last year have been announced.

One of these finalists will win the ‘MRS Silver Medal 2023’.

  1. Carlos A. Diaz Ruiz’s (University of Auckland, New Zealand) The Insights Industry: Towards a performativity turn in market research. This paper explores how ‘market researchers’ have reinvented themselves as ‘insights professionals’.
  2. In a A Question of Gender: Gender classification in international research Trixie Cartwright (Ipsos, UK) and Clive Nancarrow (University of the West of England, UK) talk about ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ and how research participants might identify themselves within them.
  3. In A practical review of electroencephalography’s value to consumer research, authors Aaron N McInnes (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA; Curtin University, Australia), Billy Sung and Reyhane Hooshmand (both Curtin University, Australia) deliver guidelines for using electroencephalography (EEG) in research.
  4. Finding creative drivers of advertising effectiveness with modern data analysis by John Williams (University of Otago, New Zealand), Nicole Hartnett and Giang Trinh (both Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, Australia) illustrates how applying many alternative but equally reasonable analytical methods can identify creative variables associated with commercial success.

New MRS Fellows

The event will take place at Smith & Wollensky London, in London, where nine new MRS Fellows will be presented at the MRS Excellence Awards lunch on Friday 9th of June, including:

  • Tim Barber
  • Michael Brown
  • Lucy Davison
  • Christian Dubreuil
  • Babita Earle
  • Chloe Fowler
  • Crawford Hollingworth
  • Sam Knowles
  • Leanne Tomasevic

Tickets: Fellows £75+VAT, Members £95+VAT, Non-Members £115+VAT.

Places are limited, so booking early is recommended. Booking requests should be sent directly to sarah.marchant-heatley@mrs.org.uk

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