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The Best of Impact 2017

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The Lowry Arts Centre Salford Quays

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3hrs
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Award-winning highlights from the MRS Annual Conference

It's your chance to catch some of Impact 2017’s award-winning speakers who will share their client stories, passionate beliefs and original approaches to the research process. This year's London conference spurred much debate and buzz. Come and listen to the sessions that made a stir and network with speakers and delegates at one of Northern England’s most inspiring contemporary landmarks, The Lowry in Salford.

Harassment and Safeguarding Policy

By booking this event, you agree to abide by the MRS Harassment and Safeguarding Policy. A copy of the policy can be viewed here: MRS Event Harassment and Safeguarding Policy.

MRS is committed to providing a safe, inclusive and respectful environment for all attendees. Failure to adhere to this policy may result in you being asked to leave the event without a refund. In addition, MRS reserves the right, at its discretion, to refuse future bookings and attendance at MRS events.

If at any point during the event you experience or witness anything concerning, please speak to a member of the MRS team immediately so we can address it promptly and appropriately.

If you wish to raise a concern after the event, please email conference@mrs.org.uk. Concerns will be handled sensitively and proportionately, and MRS may take action where expected standards are breached.

Venue

The Lowry Arts Centre
Pier 8,Salford Quays,M50 3AZ

More details of the venue can be found at their website. Visit it here.

MRS 80th anniversary sponsor:

WALR

Walr is a data creation company that supports insight professionals globally. It specialises in reaching diverse audience segments, leveraging proprietary technology, and offering bespoke services.

With a comprehensive suite of tools, backed by a team of seasoned industry professionals, Walr’s services include efficient data collection methods, intuitive data visualisation and reporting techniques, and supportive and transparent advice.

Walr exists to unify the complex and fragmented research process by introducing more efficient, rapid, and straightforward methods.

MRS is proud to support:

MRBA

The MRBA is the industry’s only charity and is here for when life gets tough. The MRBA assists those facing financial hardship due to illness, bereavement, personal difficulties, or imminent financial distress. To date it has supported over 1,100 individuals, distributing more than £1 million in aid, either through grants or interest-free loans.

The MRBA is here for anyone, young or old, who has worked in the UK market or social research industry, as a supplier or client, for at least two years – whether in research, insights, operations, analysis, interviewing or management.

The MRBA also offers bursaries for those wishing to further their research knowledge and gain qualifications but who are unable to fund it financially. If you would like to learn more, or help us to provide financial support to colleagues in distress.

Christian Walsh - Marketing, Content & Digital Director

As Content and Digital Director at MRS, Christian oversees the editorial, digital, advertising and data teams, including industry news platform research-live.com. Christian works closely with the MRS Delphi Group and other industry experts to produce special reports that distill the latest thinking on critical issues for the insight and data analytics sector. He has worked in a number of industries as a journalist and editor, and has managed digital communications for several international businesses.

Harriet Walsh

Harriet is responsible for our Corporate Partner Service and our new scheme Fair Data.
With over 7 years experience in client relationships and account management within public and private sectors organisations she has a wide range of knowledge that allows her to help businesses understand their needs and achieve their goals.

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Helen Oldfield

Helen is responsible for the marketing and membership activities within MRS covering training, membership, company accreditation and sales. Having worked in marketing for three professional organisations over the past 20 years, she specialises in marketing for membership bodies.
She worked for six years from 1986 for the Chartered Institute of Quality (CQI) as editor and then head of communications, and in 1993 moved to head up the marketing team for 11 years at the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).
With a degree in social science focusing on society and psychology, her original subject matter interests are proving very useful for working in the research sector. Helen recently completed the Marketing Week Mini-MBA in Marketing and was awarded an A.

Sinead Jefferies - MRS Main Board representative

Sinead is SVP for Customer Transformation at Zappi, with extensive previous experience both agency and client-side, including as a Board Director and MD within Chime Insight & Engagement and as Head of Insight & Intelligence at Royal Mail.

Since moving to France with her family in 2015 she has worked remotely and was proud to be included on the Timewise Power Part Time list 2017. Following the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, she founded a consultancy, Vela, to support individuals and teams to achieve great things, remotely. She worked with organisations to help them understand and rebuild their working practices as well as offering training on key remote working skills.

Sinead leads the People & Talent programme for MRS, collaborating with people from a wide range of backgrounds to focus on supporting the sector on attracting new & returning talent, learning & development, wellbeing and agency culture & leadership.

Andy Krasny

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		14.30	Registration and coffee
		15.00	Welcome Jane Frost CBE, CEO, MRS
		15.05	Chair's introduction Quentin Ashby, MD, Join the Dots
		15.15	*Fashion design and sustainability through ResearchGames (Winner of Best Newcomer)* Betty Adamou, Research Through Gaming
			*The greys matter: through the mind of Wendy - living with dementia and dealing with financial services (Winner of Best Overall Contribution to Conference)* Leslie Sopp, FCA Lisa Edgar, The Big Window
			Q&A
		16.15	Refreshements

		16.30	*Just one thing: Getting young Londoners to recycle (Winner of Best Presenter)* Ali Moore, Resource London Jon Cohen, Kindling
			*Driven to distraction: aligning the team on the road ahead (Finalist for Best Presenter)* Susie Seldon, Department for Transport Ailean Mills, BAMM
			Q&A
		17.30	Drinks reception in The Lowry Galleries

		19.30	Close

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