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Gardening Exercise Day

My garden. It is my haven, my sanctuary and my ultimate happy place. It provides me the opportunity to get out into the fresh air, a reason to get some well needed exercise and to thoroughly ‘blow away the cobwebs’ for three seasons every year. There are a whole host of reasons as to why… Read more »

Happy ‘World No Tobacco’ Day!

Happy World No Tobacco Day

Happy ‘World No Tobacco’ Day – celebrating our team, our clients and our wonderful respondents who are helping to change, develop and improve the UK vaping industry.

BEEAM – The ‘Worker Bees’ of research

BEEAM

It’s ‘World Bee Day’, and like any Queen Bee, I’ve been asked to lead by example and write a blog about it. At first I thought “great topic – thanks!” (with a huge amount of sarcasm added in), but then I got thinking about the research industry, my team and the global economy (yikes) and… Read more »

A year in the life of a Project Assistant

Want to know what it’s like starting your career at BEAM? Have a read of this… I recently celebrated my one-year anniversary at BEAM Fieldwork and what a unique experience it has been! Like a lot of people during the pandemic, I have been reflecting on things the past 12 months and my career being… Read more »

We’re Recruiting! – Project Assistant

BEAM recruiting project assistant

Looking for a role you can really get your teeth into? Let’s talk. We’re looking for a Project Assistant to join our busy fieldwork team. Whether you’ve got a few years of experience in any workplace, or you’re looking for your first opportunity – this is the role for you. Energetic, organised and efficient, you’ll… Read more »

How to support vulnerable audiences in research

Before COVID-19, gathering the thoughts and opinions from a vulnerable audience was a huge part of our day-to-day work here at BEAM. Whilst arranging in-home, face to face interviews are most certainly off the cards for the foreseeable, thankfully we are still able to reach this market safely and sensitively with the help from the… Read more »

Stats of the Festive Season

After a year with some huge changes and a large amount of unpredictability, it comes as no surprise that Christmas is also going to be a little different this year too. One thing that can be predicted, thanks to market research and the questioning of consumers on the build-up to the big day is just… Read more »

How Different Will Black Friday be This Year?

Black Friday is an annual day of savings that grows in popularity year on year. As we all know nothing about 2020 has been ‘normal’, or how we would usually expect it to go, so what affect will this year have on Black Friday? A Spike in Online Shopping Online shopping is set to soar… Read more »

The Automotive Industry in the Big Smoke

Car research. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, here at BEAM we’re pretty much working on a car research project at all times. They’re the research projects that make recruiters shudder. With lengthy screeners, nigh-on-impossible quotas, algorithms and endless levels of complex project management, they’re enough to give you night terrors. But for some reason the… Read more »

How Has 2020 Changed Consumer’s Eco-Friendly Habits and Research?

Earlier this year, we looked at how eco-friendly consumers are, in comparison to the past. With this month marking ‘Organic September’, we’ve had a look at whether consumers have kept up these eco-friendly habits throughout 2020 and how much the coronavirus pandemic has impacted ourselves, the planet, the different industries and the research they’re completing… Read more »