Ipsos MORI Hires Three for Social Research Institute

In the UK, Ipsos MORI's Social Research Institute (SRI) has appointed three senior directors, including Sam Clemens who previously served as NatCen's Head of Health and Wellbeing.

SRI comprises 180 methodological and sector experts based in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Manchester, offering an understanding of specific sectors, their policy challenges and research needs. Clemens joins to head up SRI's Large Scale Survey team, and brings more than twenty years' social research experience. For the past eight, she has worked in NatCen's Health team, latterly as Head of Health and Wellbeing Research. Earlier, she worked for BMRB Social Research, Research International and SCPR.

Gerry Nicolaas also joins from NatCen, where she worked for the past sixteen years, the past four of them as Head of Data Collection Methodology. Before this, she was an RA at the National Primary Care R&D Centre at the University of Manchester, and Social Survey Officer for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. In her new role, Nicolaas will serve as Senior Survey Methodologist in SRI's Research Methods Centre.

Finally Lucy Joyce takes up the role of Qualitative Director in SRI's Employment, Welfare and Skills team. She previously spent more than thirteen years at TNS BMRB, where as Director of Research in the Qualitative team, she primarily worked with central government clients.

Commenting on the appointments, SRI MD Bobby Duffy said: 'We are delighted to welcome such experienced and highly skilled staff to the Social Research Institute team. They bring real added depth to a number of our most important and strongest research areas, including on health and employment policy and survey and qualitative research methods.'

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