Our research services
We design and manage research to help you understand the attitudes, perceptions and motivations of your most important stakeholders: current and prospective parents, alumni, staff and students
We design and manage research to help you understand the attitudes, perceptions and motivations of your most important stakeholders: current and prospective parents, alumni, staff and students
Whether you commission a bespoke piece of qualitative research or opt for one of our cost-effective standardised surveys, our research delivers objective, thoughtful, personalised and expert insight.
Our surveys provide access to the most robust benchmarked survey available in the sector. We have undertaken more than 300 studies for more than 200 individual schools involving thousands of students, staff members, parents and alumni. This means we can provide the most robust benchmarked survey data in the sector.
Schools choose to work with us rather than do it themselves because:
- Respondents know it is anonymous and the analysis is objective, not done by the school. This generates higher response rates and more honest answers
- It saves you considerable time
- Not every school has a market research expert on the payroll
- Results are benchmarked against comparable schools – so you can better interpret your school’s performance
- Survey findings, be they challenging or highly positive, often have more impact when provided by an experienced third party
Our bespoke surveys for parents, pupils and staff are designed and built to meet your individual objectives. These surveys are benchmarked to provide even more valuable context. Whilst our standardised surveys for parents, pupils and staff provide a cost-effective tool to gain key insights.
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Get in touch
Email Louise Peddie, Head of Research, at louisepeddie@rsacademics.com
Call Louise on +44 (0)1858 383164
Comply with inspection requirements and strengthen your pupil wellbeing
Pupil Voice subscription service
Our affordable, self-service Pupil Voice survey service – designed by our specialist research team – will help you comply with inspection requirements and strengthen your pupil wellbeing .
Headteachers and school leaders will know that pupil wellbeing is at the heart of the new ISI inspection framework and schools need to show they are listening to, and acting on, their pupil voice to achieve the best outcomes and strengthen wellbeing and the school experience overall.
Many schools are already very proactive in this area. Yet, from our decades of experience of research in schools, we know not all children and young people feel comfortable sharing their concerns and less positive experiences. This puts schools at risk of non-compliance or a poor or disappointing inspection and may make them less effective at meeting the needs of all pupils.
To help schools meet this challenge, we’ve launched a new self-service survey service. Created by our professional education research team, with input from schools, Pupil Voice is expertly designed to tease out pupil views on everything from learning and studies, to support and wellbeing, school resources and co-curricular activities.
Pupil Voice: flexible survey programme to gather pupil feedback