Services
We supply a wide range of services for psychological, social, market, and opinion research projects, whether they have a commercial or non-commercial, an academic or applied scientific background. We plan and conduct complete research projects, but we are also happy to carry out parts of a project. We either do it for you, or we provide you with our advice on how to do it yourself.
If behaviours and social actions of humans are to be explained and thoroughly understood, their exploration calls for a sound scientific foundation, strong methodological know-how and extended analytical experience. RCBS Europe has this kind of competence (see About us and Publications.) We also investigate the effectiveness of intervention programmes that aim at modifying behaviours (by means of, e.g., advertising or educational campaigns, training programmes, changes to your product, alterations of the environment). We are by your side when it comes to conducting appropriate evaluation research.
The scope of our services comprises:- Advice on research strategy
- Transformation of research questions into explorable concepts (operationalisation)
- Selection of adequate data collection methods and instruments
- Development of study designs
- Organisation of research projects
- Construction of instruments for data collection (e.g., questionnaires, scales, psychometric tests)
- Application of established psychometric tests and interpretation of their results
- Definition of populations and samples
- Calculation of sample sizes, power, and effect sizes
- Recruitment of participants
- Organisation and supervision of data collection (fieldwork)
- Data (pre-)processing
- Calculation of survey weights
- Statistical analyses and projections
- Calculation of confidence intervals
- Tabulation and interpretation of results
- Derivation of conclusions and recommendations
- Communication of results (presentations, reports, publications)
- Elaboration of the scientific framework within which an empirical study is set up and conducted (identification of previous empirical research, outline of the theoretical background)
- Desk research
- Development of research methods
- Conception and realisation of trainings, seminars, lectures
- Translation of scientific texts and research materials (questionnaires, interviewer instructions etc.)
Most of these items can be booked separately or as part of an individually customised package. We tailor each project to your particular need or objective.
We offer our services to clients from Europe and overseas:- Government agencies
- Nongovernmental organisations
- Academic research institutes
- Marketing and advertising agencies
- Market research companies
- Industrial and service enterprises
- Wholesalers and retailers
- Individual researchers, consultants, students, etc. (however, we do not write theses or other exam papers!)
See the Methods section for more details about our methodological expertise.
