London-based opinion and behaviour research specialist BritainThinks has hired former Ipsos MORI exec Victoria Harkness as Research Director.

Launched in 2010 by Opinion Leader co-founders Deborah Mattinson and Viki Cooke and their former colleague Ben Shimshon, BritainThinks offers strategic advice for political, corporate and not-for-profit clients, while its WorldThinks international division has a specific focus on reputation research.

Harkness (pictured) previously worked for the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, where she headed up the policy, services, and regulation business. During this time, she worked with numerous councils, government departments, regulators, charities and think tanks, delivering insight to support service prioritisation and transformation, policy development and evaluation and reputation management, in addition to stakeholder engagement, communications, customer satisfaction and liveability studies. Earlier, she worked in corporate research and policy roles at the City of London Corporation and London Borough of Camden, and before that for consultancy Shared Intelligence Ltd.

Commenting on the appointment, Cooke said: ‘We are delighted to welcome Victoria to BritainThinks as our newest Research Director, where her expertise and experience will make valuable additions to our team.’

Web site: www.britainthinks.com .

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