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The Research Box

Growing your ideas and strategy

The Research Box was set up by two founding consultants, Alison Fleming and Hugh Inwood dedicated to helping organisations succeed   

Alison Fleming

Alison has led The Research Box for 25 years and has a passion for conducting research insight with purpose

Alison is thoroughly specialised in providing audience insight and social research in a number of markets.  Primarily a qualitative researcher, she enjoys giving lively presentations and designing innovative methods for gaining genuine insights from research participants 

Alison has a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages from the University of Sussex and an MSc in Marketing from Strathclyde University.   As  a member of the Market Research Society (MRS) and the Association of Qualitative Research (AQR),  she is interested in harnessing new thinking and delivering useable outputs for clients to better understand human behaviour.   Alison is a strategic thinker and for the past 10 years has been immersed in projects in the heritage sector, the natural world to understand public perceptions of landscape change 


We collaborate with a number of research associates, academics and  trusted fieldwork partners who follow IQCS and MRS quality standards

we develop strong long-term relationships with all our clients