Shift Membership Case Studies
While some of Shift’s work was confidential, we are grateful to have received client permission to share the following case studies of projects we completed.
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- Academic and scholarly
- Charity
- Conference research
- Medical and healthcare
- Membership research
- Professional
- Publications and new service development research
- Qualifications and accreditation research
- Regulatory
- Research to inform policy development
- Trade
Understanding doctors’ decisions to migrate from the UK
The General Medical Council (GMC) commissioned Shift Insight to conduct an in-depth study to understand the decision-making processes of doctors leaving the UK workforce to practise medicine overseas.
Medical and healthcare, Regulatory, Research to inform policy development
Content Strategy
RCNi, the Royal College of Nursing’s learning platform, wanted to conduct research aimed at shaping its content strategy. The objective was to gain insight into the varied needs of its audience, enhancing their overall experience – ultimately to both attract new users and maintain current subscriptions.
Medical and healthcare, Membership research, Qualifications and accreditation research
Corporate strategy and perceptions survey
The General Medical Council commissioned Shift Insight to run their corporate strategy and perceptions survey, which tracks perceptions of seven key audiences, building on research conducted in previous years.
Medical and healthcare, Regulatory, Research to inform policy development
Membership research
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA), a trade body and membership organisation, commissioned Shift Membership to help them better understand trading and operational challenges faced by professionals in the industry.
Membership research, Trade
Public perceptions
As part of a larger review, this research aimed to help the GOC better understand patient and public views on its Standards of Practice for Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians, as well as their Standards for Optical Students.
Medical and healthcare, Regulatory, Research to inform policy development
BSR conference
Shift were commissioned to analyse the open codes from a survey which collected feedback around the 2022 British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) conference. The conference was delivered in a hybrid format, having been online the previous year.
Conference research, Medical and healthcare
Apprenticeships research
The Institute of Physics (IOP) are committed to transforming the physics landscape for the UK and Ireland – to ensure a thriving physics ecosystem that will contribute to innovation, discovery, research, growth and debate in the UK, Ireland and beyond. As part of this, the IOP have an explicit aim to increase the number of those on physics-based science apprenticeships. To support this goal, the IOP were keen to explore the views of employers, providers, learners and key sector stakeholders.
Academic and scholarly, Membership research
Volunteering Research
The Association for Project Management (APM) has 750 volunteers performing a variety of tasks – and wanted to conduct a review of its current approach to governance and management of its volunteering efforts.
Membership research, Professional
Professional Associations
APM wanted to update their review of key competitor organisations. The aim was to refresh existing information in line with APM’s new strategy and produce a SWOT analysis with particular focus on potential opportunities.
Professional, Research to inform policy development
Membership survey
Society and College of Radiographers commissioned Shift to conduct membership research. This project’s research objectives were: to explore members’ expectations, needs, awareness and satisfaction, as well as threats and challenges to radiographers; and to investigate if current membership fee categories and structures were fit for purpose.
Medical and healthcare, Membership research
Project journal research
APM’s quarterly Project journal is their flagship publication and one of their most popular member benefits. APM would like to ensure that Project continues to meet members’ expectations and perform as it should – and commissioned Shift to conduct research exploring members’ attitudes to the journal, particularly its content and distribution format.
Membership research, Professional, Publications and new service development research
Interviews exploring data usage in project management
We conducted research for APM exploring how project professionals currently use data in their roles.
Professional, Publications and new service development research