Participation Unit Team
The Ipsos MORI Participation Unit Team
David Peckham — Associate Director
David Peckham joined MORI in 2001 and has managed a wide range of quantitative and qualitative projects, with particular specialisms in local government and regeneration research. David project managed the Household Survey of the New Deal for Communities Evaluation on behalf of the ODPM including running a series of nationwide training courses for NDC partnerships and has also worked with the Home Office, Department of Health and the Audit Commission. As a key member of Ipsos MORI's Local Government Unit, David has a particular interest in participation from a local government angle, including citizen's panels and budget consultation workshops. In his former role as Research Manager at the London Borough of Southwark, David helped develop participative research at the authority including work with the Borough's diverse communities. David graduated with a first class degree in Modern Languages and European Politics from Manchester University in 1999 and also has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Sussex University.
Bobby Duffy — Research Director
Bobby Duffy is a Research Director with responsibility for leading Ipsos MORI's Research Methods Unit (RMU) and Regeneration & Planning Research Unit. He joined MORI in 1994 and has led a very wide range of research projects for a variety of public sector clients. He has particularly focused on regeneration and economic development research, approaches to measuring customer expectations and satisfaction in a public sector context, as well as more general work on what influences perceptions of government and quality of life. This includes national evaluations of key regeneration programmes such as New Deal for Communities and the Single Regeneration Budget, work with over 100 regeneration partnerships and major studies for RDAs and DTI on regional development.
Published papers and speeches include a study of satisfaction with services in deprived areas from his time as a User Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at LSE, a joint paper with Cambridge University on the role of social surveys in assessing regeneration programmes, studies for the Cabinet Office on Measuring and Understanding Customer Satisfaction and a paper exploring the key drivers of life satisfaction and trust in others for the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.
Sarah Castell
— Head of Qualitative Research
Sarah manages the Hothouse team. She
has designed research projects all over the globe and is an expert in
communications and branding and also social
marketing research and policy
development. Sarah also leads on Higher Education branding and communications.
Sam Mclean — Research Manager
Sam is a specialist in deliberative and participative research, looking at new way of empowering local voices and situating the views of the general public at the heart of central and local government decision-making.
Having worked previously at Opinion Leader Research (OLR) and GfK NOP, he has developed extensive experience of managing important qualitative studies and deliberative events for public sector organisations including DWP, the Cabinet Office and COI.
Sam has a first class BSc (Hons) in Sociology from the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) where he graduated top of his academic year group and holds an MSc in Political Sociology from the LSE, which he passed with distinction. He is also currently writing his PhD on the future of radical democratic renewal in twenty first century Britain.