Sensory & Consumer training - in-house/tailored service

We are able to develop and deliver bespoke training courses specifically tailored for your requirements and personnel. Courses can be conducted at your own site, a site of your choice, here at Campden BRI or be delivered online. These courses offer a focussed and cost effective solution which ultimately allows your team to gain valuable knowledge from experienced Campden BRI tutors. The tailored content would be designed to suit the level and topic of choice.

Our tailored courses can range in duration from 2/3 hours through to 2/3 days intensive training and can include a mixture of lectures and practical sessions. The course content can range from a general overview of the topic to in-depth applications. One to one training can be given or large groups depending on requirements.

Topics covered for you to choose from  include:

• Sensory Training/Screening in industry for Quality Control purposes
  • Sensory principles, best practices and screening procedures for in-house taste panel
• Sensory methodology and its uses
  • An overview of sensory methods and their applications
• Sensory evaluation - discrimination testing
  • An overview of the variety of discrimination methods available
• Sensory evaluation - descriptive testing
  • An overview of the variety of descriptive methods
• Consumer research
  • Best practice and principles of qualitative and quantitative consumer research and applicable methods for product development
• Consumer Benchmarking
  • An interactive workshop tailored to your product types explaining the principles of Product Benchmarking and reasons why it can become a powerful addition to your consumer research
• Data analysis
  • Workshop style review of data analysis systems with working practices
• Statistical methods for sensory applications
  • Principles of statistical applications to sensory methodology