Neighbourhoods

Waste and recycling research with residents and students

Overcoming the challenges faced by waste management teams
Areas with a wide variety of housing types and a large number of Houses of Multiple Occupation offer unique waste and recycling problems for local authorities. Faced with a large number of students living in a popular residential area, one of our clients needed to establish how best to overcome this challenge through research.

Community cohesion research

Building on Place Survey findings
The challenge for local authorities looking to the future is how to further investigate issues raised by residents during the Place Survey research. Qualitative research helped one of our clients meet this objective and provided a boost to community cohesion work at the same time.

Following up on Place Survey research

Moving on from “how many?” to “why?”
If you want to understand research findings, one of the best ways to do this is to choose an alternative way to engage with residents. That’s what one of our clients discovered when they decided to investigate Place Survey findings in more depth.

Evaluating “value for money” in Essex

Tackling sensitive local subjects
Sometimes issues crop up which require careful planning and a sensitive touch if the client is to derive the maximum benefit from any research.

Assessing the impact of a Christmas drink-driving campaign

Is the message getting through?
For over forty years the campaign against drink-driving has remained a high-profile public policy initiative. Determined to assess the strength of its own Christmas drink-drive campaign, Essex County Council chose Qa to conduct research with residents.