Research services: Public Perception & Polls

We’re a member of the British Polling Council (BPC) and our polls are regularly used by some of the leading business and consumer press.

We’re an experienced political pollster and our polls have featured throughout the world’s media, including Sky News, BBC News, The Economist, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.

  • Proprietary online panel Panelbase has over 370,000 UK adults aged 16+
  • 800 interviewers and surveys completed on tablets as well as a 75-seat UK-based CATI unit, should you require targeted constituency polling or a hard-to-reach demographic
  • All polls are run by our RD, who personally reviews data and advises on sampling, methodology, questionnaire design, weighting and predictive models
  • Reliability & validity of data is ensured by the British Polling Council’s code of conduct to which we adhere as members
Link to our political polling Link to case study: Thirteen Group. DRG partnered with Thirteen Group to understand the perceptions of key stakeholders Speak to the polling experts
Link to case study: Womankind. We delivered an audience engagement project for Womankind Worldwide to help inform their communication strategy going forward Link to case study: CALM. The audit was conducted to define why it is that suicide is increasingly a male phenomenon

So, if you’re looking for an online panel with impeccable data quality, whether it’s fieldwork support for your polling activity, sample only or a full-service research project, please get in touch. Alternatively, if you’d like to conduct your own polls to generate PR we can advise you on survey design, weighting, sampling and models to ensure the data stands up to scrutiny.

 

Below is some of the media coverage our polls have received:

Scottish Referendum:

Reuters – Scottish support for independence at 48 percent

 

General Election 2015:

BBC – Election 2015: TV debates ‘most influential’ for voters

 

EU Referendum:

Sunday Times – Brexit ‘will push Scots to leave UK’

NBC News – Could Scotland seek referendum again if Britain leaves EU

 

Local Elections:

The Sunday Times – Labour set to lose Scottish councils

 

General Election 2017:

SNP ‘to lose 10 seats’ to Tories in major blow to Nicola Sturgeon

 

Other:

The Scotsman – Holyrood 2016: Tories and Labour neck and neck in race for second

Telegraph – A crisis of masculinity source research: CALM

The Guardian – Ban fracking from national parks, say majority of UK public

The Journal – Commonwealth Games: Poll reveals support for bringing the games to the North East

Travel Weekly – Research highlights UK holiday boom as government funds stimulus

Marketing Week – Affordability is tie that binds ‘con-demmed source research: Con-Demned Youth

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