This page introduces the Beaufort Research team. Beaufort is owned by its directors and the executive directors manage and oversee each assignment. They are supported by skilled executive and technical staff and can draw on an extensive fieldforce. Beaufort's executive team contains a broad range of practical, business and academic research skills. Notwithstanding this, from time to time we use the support services of a small and specialised team of retained and established qualitative associates; their particular sector and market experiences complement our in-house skills.

DIRECTORS
   
   

Peter Stolle (Non Executive Chairman) has been involved in the provision of market research and marketing services at senior and director level for over thirty years. He is a full member of the Market Research Society. Peter founded Beaufort in 1984 and was Managing Director of the company until his retirement in March 2007. He will continue his involvement with Beaufort in a strategic role.

  
   

Fiona McAllister (Managing Director) is a full member of both the Market Research Society and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Fiona has over twenty years experience in research and marketing. Her experience is broad-ranging and spans both public and private sectors and quantitative and qualitative research techniques. After graduating in Medieval History from the University of London, Fiona began her career in consumer marketing at ICI Paints Division. She then joined BP Oil UK to work in a retail marketing role before moving back to Wales, where she began to specialise in marketing research.  Prior to joining the Market Research UK Group in 1996 to head Market Research Wales, Fiona spent four years as Head of Research and Planning at RAC Motoring Services, where she was responsible for marketing research and new product development.

Fiona's clientside research experience also includes two years at the City of Swansea Council, where she managed a whole range of social studies for Leisure Services, Economic Development, Housing and Tourism, as well as a period in advertising planning and research at Golley Slater & Partners. Fiona is a highly experienced researcher whose marketing background gives her an invaluable perspective when interpreting research results.  Her research interests include broadcasting and media research, leisure and tourism, customer satisfaction and financial services.
 

   

Chris Timmins (Director) has over ten years experience in market research. During this time Chris has worked both as a buyer and provider of research services. Following graduation in Politics from Hull University, his career began at market research agency Taylor Nelson Sofres. Here he specialised in the design, management and reporting of several large scale continuous and ad hoc quantitative studies.

Prior to joining Beaufort in 2003, Chris was the Research Manager at the Sports Council for Wales where he had overall responsibility for a number of major all Wales studies, in addition to smaller scale policy and programme evaluations. His client-side experience also includes time within the private sector having held a Brand Research Manager post at Mars Confectionery. His particular interests include public policy, leisure, retail, FMCG and media.

Chris is a member of the Market Research Society.
   
Claire Peate (Associate Director) has over ten years experience in market research. Graduating from Sheffield University in English Language with Linguistics Claire started out at NOP in London. Focusing on automotive research she was seconded to a key client; Jaguar Cars in Coventry. A move to a more consultancy-based role at NFO Worldgroup broadened Claire’s research experience to include FMCG, public sector and media research. Prior to joining Beaufort Claire was Research Manager at the Bank of Ireland UK.

Claire joined Beaufort Research in November 2006.
 

   

Owen Knight (Associate Director) has been a member of Beaufort Research's executive team for the past six years. Owen joined Beaufort in 2001 after graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration at University of Wales, Cardiff. During his time at Beaufort, Owen has worked on a wide variety of research projects for both private and public sector clients and takes specific responsibility for our Cwmnibus Omnibus survey.

Owen is a fluent Welsh speaker and a member of the Market Research Society.

 
   
   
EXECUTIVE STAFF
   
Sarah O'Donoghue (Senior Research Executive) An Associate Member of the Market Research Society, Sarah has ten years' experience in research on both agency and client sides. Her experience spans both quantitative and qualitative research techniques.

Sarah began her career as Senior Research Executive with another market research agency, where she worked on projects for both the public and private sectors. She then moved to Nottingham Building Society where she took up the post of Market Research Manager and Business Analyst for 5 years. On moving back to Wales, she spent some time as Consultation Officer in local government, before returning to agency based work when joining the team at Beaufort in 2007.
   

 

Lisa Williams (Senior Research Executive) Lisa joined Beaufort Research in January 2007. Lisa graduated from University of Wales, Cardiff with a BA (Hons) in History and Welsh History. Prior to joining Beaufort, Lisa gained four years experience of quantitative and qualitative research in the Research Department at S4C. Whilst there, she gained the MRS Advanced Certificate in Social and Market Research Practice.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Lisa can moderate in Welsh and in English and conduct projects bilingually. She is an associate member of the Market Research Society and also a member of the Media Research Group.
   

Osian Bowyer (Research Executive) Osian joined Beaufort Research early in 2006 after completing a Postgraduate Degree in Welsh Politics and Government MSc (Econ) at University of Wales, Cardiff. He had previously graduated from University of Wales, Bangor with a BA (Hons) in Political and Social Sciences and as such has a thorough understanding of the social & political environment of Wales.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Osian further adds to the already strong team of bilingual executives at Beaufort Research.

 
 
 
   
TECHNICAL STAFF
 
 


Annette Littlechild (Field Manager) has had responsibility for organising research fieldwork, both qualitative and quantitative, for over twenty years. She brings to Beaufort the rigorous professional standards essential to ensure the smooth and efficient running of a national fieldforce. She and her team organise all sorts of fieldwork - from small jobs to large, and from routine assignments to very complex ones.

Annette has been with Beaufort since its formation in 1984 and is an associate member of the Market Research Society.

 
 
Paul Rees-Williams (Analysis and Computer Executive) has a Higher National Certificate in Business Information Technology. Paul takes a central role in the company's ICT maintenance and development programme as well as working on analysis provision.

Paul's IT experience includes fluency in components of MS Office and ad-hoc databases as well as being both the company webmaster and e-mail postmaster. Prior to joining Beaufort, Paul worked in the NHS public sector.
   

Mal Colley (Research Analyst) has a BSc (Hons) in Physics and Electronics from the University of Reading. Mal has specific responsibility for the analysis of Beaufort's continuous survey work as well as ad-hoc studies. Mal brings a wealth of statistical and mathematical knowledge to Beaufort, specialising in Microsoft Excel and SPSS.

Prior to joining Beaufort, Mal worked in project management and technical support for various blue-chip companies which includes three years FMCG research agency experience.
   

 

 
ASSOCIATES
 

From time to time, Beaufort utilises the support services of an established network of specialist associates. They are chosen because their skills complement ours and because we know that we can work together as a cohesive team.

We have chosen our associates with care and our commitment to these specialists ensures consistent high quality research. In some cases our collaborative work, over a number of years, has led to the formation of retainer agreements.

Since the 1990's we have built up strong and successful links with a number of research agencies in Europe and we are well versed in managing international projects.

 

 

 
FIELDFORCE
 

We offer a UK wide fieldforce with particular strength in Wales. Fieldwork is organised by our Field Manager through regional supervisors who are spread throughout the country. Our interviewers are experienced and thorough, and are used to handling a variety of survey assignments. We carry out specific checks to ensure that high quality standards are maintained. (Further  click on  Quality Standards)

Within Wales, we can offer a team of Welsh speaking interviewers, who are experienced in administering bilingual surveys.