May 16, 2023
- Qual research
"I think we are in a world which is now fully deluded."
Iain McGilchrist talks about his book "The Matter With Things"
SIMON RILEY'S BLOG
STRANGER ON THE SHORE
The depths and shallows of 2020s Britain
All posts
April 30, 2021
- Psychology
- Qual research
- Society
- Business
School of Life: "How To Reform Capitalism" - a book review
Maybe the problem isn't the capitalist machine - it's the values the people operating it are punching into it
April 23, 2021
- Qual research
- Cinema
- Qual Analysis
- Culture
Coppola’s “The Conversation”: The Truth Is In The Audio (If You Listen Hard)
A film about repeat listening which every qual researcher should watch
April 22, 2021
- Qual research
- Qualitative
- Methodology
Top Qual Tips 1: the generation vs illustration dichotomy
Deciding what kind of qual outputs are required is key to working out what methodology to use.
April 22, 2021
- Behavioural economics
- Market Research
- Cognitive Biases
- Football
- Business Decision-Making
The Cognitive Biases That Doomed The European Super League Plan
How the club owners tripped themselves up: driven by greed, yes, but the big mistake was failing to take account of their own inevitable cognitive biases in the planning.
March 01, 2020
- COVID-19
- Qualitative Research
COVID-19: all changed, changed utterly
“Does anyone know any other words for ‘unprecedented’?” someone asked today on Twitter. In the UK, we thought we’d been through 3 years of ‘crisis’ with Brexit – and then came coronavirus.
March 28, 2019
- brexit
- europe
- COVID-19
National Crisis: a rousing motivational film for all Britons
As the clock ticks down to 29th March, repeat to yourself the narrator’s empty reassurance to us all at the end: This is Britain and everything’s alright. Everything’s alright. It’s OK. It’s fine.
