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MRS Awards
2011 Fellowship
Pene Healey
MRS Advanced Certificate in Market & Social Research Practice
Rachel Hamilton
MRS Accredited Masters Award
Eleanor Marshall
MRS Silver Medal (for best paper in IJMR in 2010)
Cataldo Zuccaro, University of Quebec
IJMR Collaborative Research Award
Saahier Parker, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, Belinda Don, Kantar Health Oncology Centre and Kyle McLoughlin, Synovate Germany
IJMR Young Research Writer of the Year
Sara Sheridan, Firefish
MRS Award for Advertising & Media Research
Babita Earle, Karsten Shaw and Corrine Moy, GfK NOP
MRS Award for Applications of Research
Transport for London (TfL) Customer Research Team
MRS Award for Financial Services Research
Mark Long & Nicola Cormack, BDRC Continental
MRS Award for Healthcare Research
Julie Davey, Julie Davey Research, and Caroline Cole and Joanna Stanbridge, Glaxo SmithKline
MRS Award for Innovation in Research Methodology
Jon Puleston, GMI and Deborah Sleep, Engage Research
MRS Award for New Consumer Insights
Rob Ellis, COG Research and Neel Desor, Haymarket Consumer Media
MRS Award for Public Policy/Social Research
ESRO & the London Borough of Lewisham
Virginia Valentine Award for Cultural Insights
ESRO and the China in Britain Forum
Research Magazine Awards
Best Agency
Sparkler
Best New Agency
Boxclever
Best Place to Work
FreshMinds Research
Best Innovation
Ipsos and Lumi Mobile for MobiLive
Best In-House Research Team
The Co-operative Food/Commercial, Strategy, Insight and Planning
Research 2011 Conference Awards
Best Paper
Joel Williams for Survey methods in an age of austerity: Driving value in survey design
Best Presenter
Bob Cook for Direct Impact: A new role for research in managing influence
Best Newcomer
Gavin Holt for Bring ideas to life
Best Session
Martin Filz, Philip Garland, Steven Gittelman, Martin Oxley (Chair) and Joel Williams for Online Research
Best Workshop
John Griffiths and Joanna Chrzanowska for Join the great crowdsourcing experiment
Best Overall Contribution to Conference
Simon Chadwick for conceiving, developing and chairing The Client/Agency Summit
Other Association Awards
MRS/AURA Insight Management Award
Debenhams Strategy and Insights Team
MRS/BIG Business-to-Business Research Award
Jonathan Fletcher, Illuminas
MRS/ASC Award for Technology Effectiveness
E-Tabs Limited for E-Tabs Verify
Ugam Research Solutions for EnRAPTURE
ASC Young Technologist of the Year
Paul Cussell, RS Consulting
Prosper Riley-Smith Effectiveness Award (AQR)
Julie Davey, Julie Davey Research & Caroline Cole and Joanna Stanbridge, Glaxo SmithKline