Connecting, Developing, Inspiring and Recognising qualitative research professionals
The place for peer support, professional reassurance, insight sharing, learning and teaching.
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Being a member of the AQR offers you a wealth of benefits; we push boundaries through thought leadership, hosting social networking events, creating opportunities for you to showcase your brilliance to to the broader research community through your easy-to-edit directory entry.
Benefits include:
What our members are saying:
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The AQR is unlike other industry bodies - it's fresh, vibrant and social. Somewhere to learn and meet other like-minded peers. Somewhere any quallie should want to belong.
Caroline Whitehill
Co-founder, Acacia Avenue
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As newish to this industry, being part of the AQR community has been an incredibly supportive experience. I’ve met so many wonderful people who’ve shared their wisdom, encouragement, and enthusiasm for the industry.
Alice Langthorne
Activation Manager, Boxclever Consulting
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‘Being a member of the AQR truly feels like being part of a wider professional family — one that champions the shared interests, standards, and ambitions of our industry. The AQR has consistently provided a strong and credible voice for qualitative research, advocating for our work and supporting practitioners at every stage of their careers.
Donal Kelly
Company Director, Spectrum Viewing Facilities
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As a predominantly qual fieldwork business, being members of the AQR gives us the opportunity to meet and engage with qual practitioners and gives us valuable insight into the qual community.
James Sainsbury
Managing Director at Criteria Fieldwork Ltd
Featured thinking
AQR Sparks - Webinar Session
Insight to Impact: Research Story Behind AQR Parker Prize.
Join Coco Ravan, Magenta Research, Winner of the AQR Parker Prize for Emerging Talent 2025 and Andy Broomhead, Diabetes UK. Hosted by Lydia Griffin, Trinity McQueen
AQR brings you - Qual Futures
As we know, anyone involved in qual will tell you a lot has changed in the past couple of years. We are at the point where we know what AI can and cannot deliver. In our second online session we will restate the value of qualitative thinking, reasserting the role of human intelligence and interpretation.
AQR Webinar Taking the Pulse
Ever wondered how qualitative research is currently faring outside your backyard, and what lies ahead? AQR invites researchers from across the world to share their experience and help us plan, as an industry, how to embrace change while setting the stage for a better, more collaborative, future.
Industry guidance
AURA's Working Well Together Charter
Support AURA's Initiative to improve well-being in our industry through better ways of working. AURA believe that the way clients and research agencies work together can make a real difference to people's confidence and well-being.
AQR's Safety Guidance
Fieldwork can be complicated to set up and execute at the best of times. The AQR Safety Guidance is intended to make it easy to ensure the safety of researchers and fieldworkers is built into the process.
Data Quality Excellence Pledge
As the market and social research sector continues to lead the way in the use and evolution of data for decision making, the Global Data Quality initiative (GDQ) has unveiled the Data Quality Excellence Pledge. If you wish to find out more about the pledge you can do so via the GDQ website.
Awards
Recognising achievements in qualitative research
Winning the AQR Qualitative Excellence Award is a prestigious badge which sends a powerful message to your existing and potential clients. In these extraordinary times, standing out from the crowd has never been more important. So, now's the time to shine.
We have Finalists for the AQR Qualitative Excellence Award 2025. They are:
Navigating Uncertainty – how ethnographic research led to lifechanging results for people living with XLH
Joe Bonnell
Open Questions
Rachel Lewis
Let’s talk about Sex
Sarah Jay
Acacia Avenue
Jen Armond
Perrigo
The Asylum Lived Experience Project: Qualitative research to empower, inspire and drive change
Carol McNaughton Nicholls
Thinks Insight and Strategy
Phoebe Ward
Thinks Insight and Strategy
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