Gillian Thomas
Founder, Telling research
Gillian Thomas is a fully trained qualitative specialist with over seven years experience in one-to-one interviewing, focus group facilitation and ethnographic fieldwork. She is experienced in a wide range of innovative research methods including in-home ethnographic studies and large public engagement events.
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Email: gillian@tellingresearch.co.uk
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As Telling Research www.tellingresearch.co.uk Gillian offers high quality analysis and writing fully grounded in the context of public policy and social change. She is the author of numerous research publications looking at cultural change in a range of contexts such as schools, the workplace and the family. She has a particular research interest in people’s relationship to the environment and collaborates with a number of other consultants and research organisations.
Gillian is experienced in a wide range of innovative research methods including in-home ethnographic studies and mass public engagement events. She regularly uses projective techniques and visioning exercises in her work to get beyond customary responses and to foster dialogue between diverse individuals or groups.
Gillian is author of a number of publications including Seeing the light: the impact of microgeneration on the way we use energy (with the Hub Research Consultants, Sustainable Consumption Roundtable, October 2005) A Child’s Place: Why environment matters to children (Demos 2004) and co-author of Carrots, Sticks and Sermons: Influencing public behaviour for environmental goals (Green Alliance/Demos 2003).
Her previous roles have been at Demos, the environmental charity Green Alliance and the qualitative research agency SW1.