Research & Development

Introduction

MDA provides a range of services relating to research and development. Much of our work centres on research to provide the evidence base for policy development and implementation.

We carry out qualitative and quantitative research customised to clients. This includes:

• Staff and customer surveys
• Online and e-mail questionnaire facility
• Local, regional and national surveys
• Satisfaction surveys, gathering the views of customers
• Focus/discussion groups to determine the scope of particular situations set to parameters for wider research
• One-to-one interviews in respect of our work on investigations and mediation
• The evaluation of projects including European-funded projects

MDA operate across all sectors and will work on small scale snap-shot projects through to large regional and national surveys.

We have an experienced team of analysts, and all research design, data processing and statistical analysis is carried out in-house. For large scale data collection exercises, we have close partner relationships with agencies such as ACNielsen and others.