research

• We are happy to provide coaching and support (online or in person) for your academic work or research: we will work with you to identify a topic, refining it, the research design, the structure (outline), the theoretical background, the selection of appropriate qualitative (and/or quantitative) data collection, processing and analysis methods, the selection of sampling procedures, the implementation of the research, the presentation of results in text and academic graphics, and last but not least, we will work together on your presentation.

• In the case of academic editing, we assess the quality of your research: i.e. its completeness, the research logic, objectivity, validity, (where applicable, representativeness), reliability and the use of specialist terminology.

• We support you in the creation of your measurement tools, such as interview guides, questionnaires and observation forms, and in the scaling process.

• We support your interview conduct and analysis through communication training, objective hermeneutics, qualitative content analysis and MAXQDA.

• We offer communication and presentation training for your thesis defence, colloquium, job application, appointment procedure or appointment procedure for a professorship.

• We assist with your academic writing through writing exercises and motivation.

I enjoy working with undergraduates, master’s students, PhD candidates and other researchers as part of a collaborative process combining coaching, consultancy, editing and peer review. These researchers come from state and private distance-learning, evening, online and on-campus universities, vocational academies, as well as from the private sector, academia and politics.

Over the past 20 years, I have supervised several hundred academic theses in the fields of economics, politics, marketing, corporate communications, advertising, human resource management (HRM), human resource development, psychology, social sciences and education, as well as audiovisual media and social media.

I trained as a business administrator specialising in statistics, hold a diploma in economics and statistics, a diploma in communication management, and have completed further training in investigative interviewing techniques. I worked for 20 years at the State Office for Statistics and for the Berlin Returning Officer. For over 20 years, I have been self-employed as a trainer in communication, creativity and presentation techniques, as a research assistant, as an assessor for accreditation procedures, as a consultant for corporate communications, marketing and advertising, as a science coach, as an editor and as a lecturer.

I have been fortunate to work for renowned institutions, commercial enterprises and universities. Among many others, I would like to mention the German Bundestag, DESTATIS, Medienboard Berlin/Brandenburg GmbH, the Berlin University of the Arts, Humboldt University, the TAGESSPIEGEL, FIBAA and ACQUIN, as well as DEMOS Group GmbH (Hemsley Fraser).

©Photo: Sabine Linkersdorff / Berlin State Library, Unter den Linden

wally communication berlin® doesn’t have a high opinion of original sounding speculations in the mass media. We want to know for sure and we rely on empiricism, which affords us more objectivity.

Empirical communications research is a part of market research and helps make human and media communication more understandable, measurable and calculable in order to gain new insights. Our competence in communication research, as well as visual communication research, public research, research on the use of the media, media effectiveness research grows out of the theoretical and practical knowledge of communication psychology, the audiovisual media, as well as from the knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods and statistical methods of compilation, preparation, analysis and evaluation of data.

wally communication berlin^® advises and supports you with the choosing of research methods (questioning, observation, content analysis, user experience, qualitative process or physiological measuring). We develop the research design and investigative plan, carry out the research and investigation and produce high quality results.

wally communication berlin^® is on your side when it comes to searching for information about your current and potential customers (target groups) and by the preparation of valid, reliable and representative data resulting out of the various areas of our research.

„Mr. Janosch, the economic situation…what is going there?“ „No danger: Wondrak has already set up a Kosinus Curve. It notes every movement of the economy and the morale, as well as the development of cumulus clouds. As soon as it goes below the critical 36, he’ll jump in.“

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