Ci Research – Skills research specialists
Ci Research is an established and experienced full service agency that offers a flexible, intelligent and tailored approach to market research and research consultancy. We have over 20 years experience of working for clients across the private and public sectors and are specialists in conducting local government research.
Our clients include sectors skills councils, chambers of commerce, business support organisations, as well as education and training providers and awarding bodies.
Following the establishment of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills in 2008 we have been working with employers, trade bodies, local and regional development agencies to assess the implications for employment and skills resulting from Lord Leitch's 2006 review of skills.
We have extensive experience of conducting research with:
Employers
- Skills surveys to identify current skills needs / gaps and the implications for productivity, competitiveness and growth.
- Use of internal and external training provision and views of curriculum and qualifications.
- Impact assessments and satisfactions surveys on behalf of funding bodies and development agencies.
Learning Providers
- Market demand surveys and provision mapping surveys.
- Perceptions of qualification structures and awarding bodies.
- Evaluations of learning programmes and initiatives.
- Equality and diversity studies.
Learners
- Student satisfaction surveys and impact assessments.
- Perceptions of student support, careers advice and progression routes.
Stakeholders
- Needs assessments and feasibility studies for new employment and skills provision.
- Employability and welfare to work studies on behalf of development agencies and funding organisations
- Supply chain mapping and the impact on employment and skills.
As a full service research agency we have strong in-house capability in all traditional means of capturing quantitative and qualitative insight, including telephone surveys (through our in-house CATI telephone unit), online-surveys, postal surveys, street interviews, focus groups, depth interviews and mystery shopping. We can also offer clients more innovative research solutions and bespoke hybrid techniques – these include insight films, ethnography, online focus groups and online communities. We also specialise in conducting policy and strategy reviews and in analysing secondary data.
The following pages of this website provide further detail on
who we are, what we do and
who we do it for.
For more detailed information about Ci Research please visit our main corporate website by clicking on the link to the right.