The Quadram Institute Bioscience is an interdisciplinary research centre at the forefront of a new era of food and health research. QIB’s mission is to deliver healthier lives through innovation in gut health, microbiology and food and its wider vision is to understand how food and microbes interact to promote health and prevent disease. Four interconnected research themes (listed below) deliver a pipeline of world-class research with outcomes that may provide a step change to your business.
- Food Innovation and Health
- Gut Microbes and Health
- Microbes in the Food Chain
- Population Health
The responsibility for delivering the research within these areas rest with the Research Group Leaders, who are recognised experts in their respective fields. Consultancy with these Research Group Leaders is available through QIB Extra.
To find out more about Quadram Institute Bioscience’s Research Group Leaders please click
here.
Stats and Analysis
Statistical techniques are used to extract information from numerical data. Almost any kind of quantitative measurements can be usefully analysed using descriptive statistics or modelling techniques.
QIB Extra offers access to professional statisticians, who will aim to give understandable answers to your data analysis questions or problems or help you design experiments. Typical services we can provide include:
- Descriptive statistical analysis.
- Planning and conducting experiments and interpreting statistical analyses.
- Help with surveys – design and analysis of questionnaires.
- Sample size and power calculations.
- Advanced statistical modelling – including data mining techniques.
The setup of a typical project with QIB Extra is provided below, however depending on the needs of your business and individual requests variations may occur;
- Initial contact is made with QIB Extra by email, website contact form or telephone.
- A member of the QIB Extra team will respond within 2 working days.
- Following the initial contact, further details of the project will be discussed so that QIB Extra can better understand your requirements. If required, a call is arranged with an identified scientific consultant.
- A confidentiality agreement (CA) or non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is set up, if necessary.
- A proposal will be prepared which includes deliverables, responsibilities, timelines and where appropriate any risks identified. Once the project is defined the proposal and an accompanied quote for the work based on the defined resources will be sent to you.
- Depending on further discussions the proposal and quote may then be revised and re-issued as required.
- If you would like to proceed a contract will be issued, and work can begin once this is signed by all parties.
- After the work has been completed a report will be issued. Interim reports are available should it be agreed at proposal stage.
For more information on these services please go to our contact us page.
Carol Raithatha - Research Consultancy
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Carol Raithatha is a research consultant primarily offering Sensory evaluation, consumer insight, and market research to QIB Extra clients. With over twenty years of experience, Carol has worked successfully with numerous research organisations, manufacturers, and clients of other sectors within the UK, and around the world.
When Carol's significant amount of experience, qualifications, and skillsets are brought to a project, our clients can expect insightful market research and management skills, complemented by a specialism in sensory science and a prolific background in food and drink research.
Carol can provide the following expertise for a client's project: .
- Sensory profiling and discrimination
- Sensory quality control
- Consumer liking and preference
- Consumer/customer usage and attitudes
- Co-creation and concept development
- Market mapping
- Competitor benchmarking
- Market opportunity evaluation
- Training and insight workshops
- Coaching and mentoring
These approaches can be applied in any food and drink category and Carol has specific experience in many, including soft and alcoholic drinks, confections, baked goods, fresh produce, flavours, ingredients, meat products, alternative proteins, sweeteners, dry goods, and packaging.
If you are interested in utilising Carol’s services on your future research project, then please contact us by following this link here