Gareth Douglas Powells of the Department of Geography at Durham University, selected HyperRESEARCH for his 2009 doctorial dissertation on "Warming Homes, Cooling the Planet: An Analysis of Socio-Techno-Economic Energy Efficiency Policy and Practice in the UK." As he notes in the dissertation, "Data analysis was performed using HyperResearch qualitative data management software in order to facilitate fast, reliable and efficient coding, cross referencing and the iterative reading and re-reading of texts and photographs."