Almost every company is likely to conduct some research or need some data analysed. However they types of research and analysis needed vary a great deal, from analysis of customer satisfaction surveys through to randomised control trials. For more ideas on the way in which research can benefit your company, visit our business page. If you are still unsure, contact us with your ideas and we can help you to put them into action.

Yes. Feel free to contact us with any ideas that you have or to arrange to meet with us. We will meet with you for an initial one hour consultation to discuss your ideas and needs and how we might be able to help you with this. This initial consultation is free and there is no obligation to use our services.

Yes. Please contact us and tell us about your data set, what format it is in and what types of analyses you would like conducted and we will get back to you.

Yes. It is vitally important to think through and clearly design your data collection to make sure you collect the highest possible quality data. We have a great deal of expertise in the design of data collection, whether through experimental designs (including randomised control trials), questionnaire based surveys or focus groups and questionnaires. Contact us and we can discuss your ideas. We can also analyse the data that you collect.

Yes. We have a great deal of expertise in questionnaire design (see our Portfolio and Surveys ) and also in the analysis of the data collected from these questionnaires.

Yes. These types of questionnaires are called psychometric tests. One very important thing to bear in mind when using psychometric tests is that they should be well validated, so research has shown that the questionnaires really measure the abilities and traits that they claim to. For this reason, it is better to use existing measures than to try to design your own. We have a great deal of expertise in psychometric testing. If you need to use psychometrics, we can help you to decide which tests are most appropriate for your needs and help you to develop a battery of psychometric measures.

Yes, we can provide data entry services and return your data to you in an electronic format that is ready to be analysed in Excel and/or SPSS file formats. After you data has been inputted, we conduct a random check of 10% of the data to ensure accuracy and provide you with piece of mind. Our pricing depends on three things:

• - how many items are on the questionnaire
• - the number of quantitative (numbers) and qualitative (words) items within the questionnaire
• - the number of completed questionnaires

Contact us if you would like a quote.

Yes. We have a great deal of experience in this type of reconfiguration. Typically we achieve this by writing customised computer programs to extract the data and reconfigure it within one file. We can provide this configured data file either in Excel or SPSS.

Yes. We can provide missing values analysis, replacement of missing values if/when this is needed and valid, data screening for errors and screening for outlying values which can be removed, replaced or left within the data set.

Yes. Feel free to contact us if you would like a quote. with details of the data you have and what you would like to find out about your data. We will then discuss the alternative analysis strategies with you and work out the ideal method of analysis for your data.

This varies a great deal. Contact us and we will discuss your research and analysis needs so that we can provide you with a quotation.

We can provide training on almost any aspect of research and statistical analysis. Originally trained as psychologists, we have a great deal of experience teaching research methods and statistics within the social sciences in a number of universities. We have a number of half day courses designed which you can see on our training page . These courses can be combined according to your needs. Alternatively, if our pre-designed courses do not cover topics that you are interested in, we can custom design courses according to your needs. Contact us to discuss your training needs.

We have taught a range of research skills and statistics courses in the psychology departments at a number of universities including Sussex, Dundee, Brunel and Cardiff. This teaching has been at all levels from introductory first year undergraduate teaching through to teaching postgraduate students completing masters of doctoral degrees. We have also taught on cognitive psychology and neuropsychology courses. Dr Victoria Bourne was nominated for a University of Dundee teaching award.

In addition to teaching psychology students, we have experience training people from a wide range of disciplines. In particular, we ran the statistics training for the Generic Skills program at the University of Dundee. People taking this course were from lots of different backgrounds from nursing and dentistry to engineering, from education to applied computing, from social work to geography. We pride ourselves on being able to present both the theory and the practice of research and statistics in a simple and approachable manner.

Yes. Please contact us to discuss your ideas. We can provide training on almost any aspect of research and statistics.

Anyone who has an interest in research and statistics, whether you are a university, charity or business.

Yes. These types of questionnaires are called psychometric tests. One very important thing to bear in mind when using psychometric tests is that they should be well validated, so research has shown that the questionnaires really measure the abilities and traits that they claim to. For this reason, it is better to use existing measures than to try to design your own. We have a great deal of expertise in psychometric testing. If you need to use psychometrics, we can help you to decide which tests are most appropriate for your needs and help you to develop a battery of psychometric measures.

No. We can do private tuition for an individual through to large scale teaching. We have experience of lecturing to up to 500 participants, so large group teaching is no problem for us.

Yes. We have a great deal of experience in this type of reconfiguration. Typically we achieve this by writing customised computer programs to extract the data and reconfigure it within one file. We can provide this configured data file either in Excel or SPSS.

We like to teach with a blended style of lectures, workshop exercises, interactive exercises and discussions. This varies from course to course and, depending on the topic, can be varied according to your needs. We always aim to keep the “lecturing” to a minimum and to include as much interaction, practice and discussion as possible.

We provide participants with a handbook that includes all the resources for the course: lecture notes, workshop exercises, etc. The handbook will also include suggestions for further reading and exercises that can be completed after the course to further develop and practice your skills. For the statistical analysis courses, we also provide a large number of data sets that can be used to practice on.

To some extent, yes. We understand that research and statistics is often far easier to understand when it is placed in the context that you will need to use it in. We’re happy to discuss such issues within our training courses. Alternatively, if you know that you will have lots of questions, it is possible to add a half day open session with us. In this session we can answer any questions that you have, talk through possible design issues and/or look at any data sets that you have.

Yes. Within our course handbooks we provide further reading and sources that can be very helpful. For statistical analysis courses we also provide participants with additional exercises and data sets that they can use to practice with. We can also provide continuing support via email (subject to agreement and costs).

Contact us to let us know what you need help with. We can certainly provide private tuition to help you understand research and statistics and to help you prepare for stats exams and the like. If you would like us to help with your own research projects, we will not run or write up your statistics for you – this would take away from your educational experience and do you more harm in the long run. We can help you by answering your questions and by discussing your design and data with you. Then we will guide you to the right way to analyse the data. We will also help you with any writing up in a similar way.

Costs vary depending on who you are (business, charity, university, student), how much training you would like us to provide (we give discounts for multiple sessions), how many participants there are (for larger groups we may need more than one facilitator), whether the course is custom designed for you and where the training will take place. Contact us to discuss your training needs and we can provide you with a quote.

We love writing, so there are a range of things available. First, our blog discusses psychological research in the media. In this we try to take a light hearted approach to research whilst attempting to undo some of the inaccuracies and misunderstandings that can occur when research is presented in the media. Second, Victoria has co-authored a text book on face processing. Although this is a text book, it is written in a very approachable manner, so anyone with an interest in face processing should find it of interest. Third, we’ve published our own research in a number of world leading psychology journals. PDF’s of our publications can be found on our publication page.

Absolutely! We have conducted a large number of psychological research studies which have been published in some of the top peer reviewed psychology journals. Topics that we can, and have, talked about include:

• - Lateralisation of brain and behaviour
• - Face processing: how do we recognise familiar people?
• - Emotion processing
• - Hormones, brain, cognition and behaviour
• - “Good” and “bad” research in the media
• - Understanding research and statistics in the media (a beginners guide with no maths!)

Interesting pieces of research often attract media attention. Unfortunately the presentation of research in the media can suffer in two ways. First, “bad science” can attract a great deal of attention, sometimes really worrying people. Second, “good science” can be misrepresented in the media – either by oversimplification, omitting important aspects of the research or by (usually unintentionally) incorrectly reporting either the methods or the results of the research. We are passionate about helping the general public to understand the research discussed in the media and to reduce any possible anxiety that can result from “media hysteria” – such as occurred with the MMR research. We regularly blog about these issues. If you would like us to talk about these issues or if you would like us to do a piece on a particular piece of research or topic, please contact us .