In this episode of OUTcast, Daniel Cunill welcomes Dan Quirk, co-founder of the Quirk’s Event series, for a powerful discussion on inclusivity within the market research industry. The episode opens with Daniel celebrating the Market Research Society’s historic participation in London Pride and reflecting on global LGBTQ+ news—including concerning developments in Hungary and the UK. 

Dan shares the evolution of LGBTQ+ meetups at Quirk’s events, initially launched during the pandemic era to foster a sense of belonging. Despite modest beginnings, the initiative has grown, symbolizing a commitment to inclusivity without commercial intent. Together, they explore how DEI efforts are becoming increasingly politicized and the importance of continuing these conversations. 

Dan emphasizes that creating inclusive spaces is not a political statement but a professional and moral responsibility. The episode closes with optimism for the future, crediting younger generations for their openness and empathy, while acknowledging the ongoing challenges. A thoughtful and timely conversation that underscores the role of the insights industry in reflecting and respecting the full spectrum of society. 

We are joined by two exceptional guests for this episode of OUTsights. Firstly we explore what it means to be trans in today's world with Adelle Barker from Sky, and we revisit some of the highlights from the Queer History session with Ellie  Reeves from Talon.

Thank you so much to our guests for their openness and honesty, and to YouGov for their sponsorship to make this happen.

Hosts:

Sabrina Trinquetel- Co-Chair of MRS Pride, Founder of powerUP

Josephine Hansom - Gen Z expert, MRS EDI Council Chair, and MRS Board Member

Guests: 

Adelle Barker - Team Leader, Sky

Adelle Barker is many things—Team Leader at Sky, LGBTQ+ advocate, public speaker, and a "LinkedIn Influencer" of all things! As the trans/non-binary lead for Sky’s LGBTQ+ Network, she’s on a mission to make workplaces more inclusive, champion allyship, and ensure everyone feels seen.

Adelle is also the voice behind #IDontKnowHowToBeTrans, an honest, light-hearted newsletter that explores the ups, downs, and downright hilarious moments of navigating life as a trans woman.

Check out her Linked In Page and Newsletter #IDontKnowHowToBeTrans https://www.linkedin.com/in/adellebarker/ 

Instagram : @Adelleblah 

Ellie-Reeves - Senior Effectiveness Executive, Talon

Ellie is a senior effectiveness executive at Talon, and also co-chair of Belong,  Talon’s DE&I Committee. She is an occasional speaker on LGBTQ+ history and holds a degree in Women's, Gender and Queer History from Oxford University.

Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellie-reeves-8baa41191/

Join us for another inspiring, deep podcast with two amazing guests. 

Sabrina is joined by Jessie, an autistic queer advocate and Cathia, principal consultant at The Unmistakables. 

Our conversation covers everything from accessibility research at festivals to the recent UK race riots. Jessie highlights the real need for lived-experience led support within universities, and Cathia brings us her conviction led journey, lifting the lid on personal and professional experiences. 

Our Host:

Sabrina Trinquetel- Co-Chair of MRS Pride, EDI Advocate and growth specialist

Our Guests: 

Jessica Chudasama-Alloway, Aucademy

Jessica is an autistic advocate who was diagnosed while undertaking her psychology degree in 2020. She works with neurodivergent students at the University of Kent, as well as supporting the wider community through her work with Aucademy, a community interest company providing education, training and resources about autistic experience. She is passionate about her involvement in disability consumer research and is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. 

Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-chudasama-alloway-a20559203
https://aucademy.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Aucademy/
https://www.autisticality.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Autisticality/

Cathia Randrianarivo, Principal Consultant at The Unmistakables

Cathia is an Inclusive Research Consultant at The Unmistakables, an award-winning strategic ED&I consultancy, delivering Inside Out Inclusion® that builds cultural confidence and inclusion capability for client partners' leaders and teams.

Cathia oversees in-depth, mixed-method research projects for clients who want to understand and engage underrepresented and underserved communities within their organisation and/or service user base, including BBH, AMV BBDO, Cannes Lions, Macmillan and Mind. As the lead quantitative insights specialist, she thrives on innovating and ensuring inclusion-first thinking is embedded in existing approaches.

Proud to be a Malagasy-British Third Culture Kid, bridging her expertise and lived experience from Madagascar and the UK, Cathia champions platforming marginalised voices and accelerating inclusion at an individual, organisational and structural level.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathiar/
https://www.mrs.org.uk/resources/representation-in-research-steering-group
https://www.theunmistakables.com/

Josephine and Dani are joined by Jason Mander. Jason is Chief Research Officer at GWI, overseeing its syndicated and custom research studies across more than 50 countries. Outside of work, he’s an adoptive parent and is committed to helping other families-to-be on their adoption journeys.

In this new OUTSights podcast, Jason will first cover the very interesting content of the paper he presented at the TMRE conference last year. A paper that explains about how different personas celebrate life. 

In the second part of the podcast, we will immerse ourselves into the world of an LGBTQ+ adopting parent. A fascinating story that will enable you to know a little bit more of the adopting journey, it’s bright and beautiful sides and also sometimes the challenging ones. Don’t miss this amazing podcast!

To round out the year, Dani Cunill is joining Josphine to co-host the podcast. Be warned, his smooth voice might sweep you off your feet!

In this episode, we look across the pond at the US and talk about the Insights Association – a professional body similar to the MRS but is based in the US. The Insights Association strives to effectively represent, advance, and grow the research profession and industry.

In the podcast we discuss the Insights Association IDEA COUNCIL which stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. The Council works to deliver measurement, education and standards of excellence to address the lack of representation in the insight profession and the populations it researches.

Charlene and Damon share the work if the IDEA Council and their ambitions for the future. We reflect on the similarities and differences in approach for each organisation (MRS and IA) to achieve the same goals. The outcome is incredibly optimistic with consistent workstreams and an intention for the MRS EDI Council and the IA IDEAS Council to work more closely together in the future.

As always, we cover our #prideofthepods and #mrspride news.

Our Hosts:

Josephine Hansom – VP and Youth Practice lead, Savanta

Daniel Cunill Romero - UK Director, Market Research services & Global Mobile lead, Bilendi & respondi

Our Guests:

Charlene Darko, Director, Chapters & Councils, Insights Association

Damon Jones, Vice President, Community and Culture/Vice President, Telephone Operations, Burke, Inc.

It's LGBTQ+ history month, and there's lots going on around the country to celebrate. And there's still time to vote in the British LGBT awards.

Josephine and Sabrina are joined by three guests from Magenta, to talk about the unbelievable work they have been doing for years in inclusion and diversity. Not only within research, but to push the boundaries within the workplace itself. Lucy introduces us to bioinspired business, a unique and circular focused approach to business and we hear how these practices are being put into place across the business.

Our second guest is John Bizzell, who co-founded MRSpride with Michael Brown back in 2018/2019. John tells us all about the origins of the idea, and how proud he is of the impact it has had. A lasting legacy as we wave goodbye to him from MRS, but hopefully not MRSPride.

We cover out #prideofthepods and #mrspride news, including involvement at the upcoming MRS Annual Conference, and the Equality Summit scheduled for later this year. https://www.mrsannualconference.com/

Our Hosts:

Josephine Hansom - Head of Youth, Savanta

Sabrina Trinquetel - Sales Director, Measure Protocol

Our Guests:

Lucy Colclough, Qualitative Manager, Magenta

Lucy is a part-time qualitative research manager at Magenta and fascinated by all things nature. When not working with us she runs a company called workWILD Solutions, organising nature connection activities for teams in London and offering bioinspired business consultancy

Naseem Allmomen, Associate Director, Magenta

Nas is Associate Director at Magenta and is Magenta’s DE&I lead. Prior to working at Magenta she worked as an Insight Manager for a mental health charity and worked at Further, specialising in research with marginalised groups. She is passionate about DE&I in all aspects of her life from the world of research to sports.

Sarah Jenkins, Founder of Magenta

Sarah has 20 years’ experience delivering high quality insight for global clients as well as more innovative and agile start-up companies. Sarah is a published author and specialises in delivering tangible and actionable outputs for clients, and has won multiple awards and commendations for her work.

John Bizzell, Events & Awards Manager, MRS

John is the Events & Awards Manager at MRS, but over his 16 years at the Society his role has variously included field schemes, publications, information services, membership communications and more. As well as looking after the Excellence, Operations and MRS Awards, he is a point of contact for MRS regional networks and organises the IJMR lecture series. In 2019 John worked with Michael Brown to establish MRSpride, the first LGBTQ+ network for researchers and allies.

Get in touch with us:

LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Twitter: @tweetmrspride

Josephine and Sabrina take another dive into all things MRS Pride with Episode 7 of OUTsights.  They cover the usual #podgoss, new exhibitions and Disney movies.
 
They are joined by Martin Bradley and Emil Kimber from MTM who dive into their inspiring work on diversity within the gaming industry. Something of a hot topic for the industry, improving the representation of characters and narratives within gaming is set to be a dominant conversation for a while. Gaming as an industry falls behind many of the other entertainment genres in promoting inclusion and so Martin and Emil discuss why this is the case and what gaming brands can do to improve. Find the full report here: https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/dei-in-gaming-event

We also hear from our newest members of the MRS Pride group, Maine Charlton  and Ben Sumner about their route to research and Pride. They also discuss their plans to support SME's across the industry to help drive inclusion and diversity through a number of round table workshops. Find out more about these via MRS Pride.
 
We mention the MRS Inclusion Pledge which you can sign up to here if your organisation hasn't already: https://www.mrs.org.uk/resources/ceo-inclusion-pledge

And finally a call out where you can meet MRS Pride and members of the MRS EDI Council in a lunchtime session at the MRS Annual Conference - Insight Alchemy 2023, on 14 March: https://www.mrsannualconference.com/


Our Hosts:
Josephine Hansom - Head of Youth, Savanta
Sabrina Trinquetel (she/her) - UK Sales Lead at Measure Protocol

Our Guests:
Martin Bradley - Director, MTM
Emil Kimber - Research Exec, MTM
Maine Charlton - Community Manager, Relish + MRS Pride Member
Ben Sumner - Insight Exec, Kadence +  MRS Pride Member


Get in touch with us:
LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/
Twitter: @tweetmrspride

Our next episode of the OUTsights podcast sees things turned on their head! Our regular co-host Josephine Hansom becomes one of our guests, and Sabrina Trinquetel is joined by another member of the MRSPride team, Daniel Cunill. 

We share a bit of #podgoss from the panel focusing mainly on being really happy the Pride celebrations were back in force this year, with some of the biggest turn outs across the country. 

Our first guest Josephine wanted to highlight the important views of young LGBTQ+ consumers in today's world with a new report, what young people value in a brand, how brands can better fulfil their needs and how they are happy to speak out about wrongful actions than their straight counterparts. A piece motivated by her work with MRSpride and the report produced by a previous guest of the podcast, Magda Markowska at NeilsenIQ. 

Our second guest Clare Woodward joins us from BT, to talk about the amazing work she did earlier in the year to pull together Best Practice guides for clients on Inclusive research. She was nominated as a MRS DI&E Changemaker earlier in the year and the judges said “Clare is helping to drive systemic change by harnessing the influence that commissioning clients have. The power of this cannot be overestimated - if clients are changing the agenda, then the agenda changes! The guidelines that Clare has led on are hugely beneficial and far from an easy undertaking.” She puts out a call for more people to share and feedback on these guides so they can continue to grow and get better. Send your feedback to her directly or info@mrs.org.uk.

We cover our #prideofthepods and news from #MRSpride, including our next event on the 15th September. 

Our Hosts:
Daniel Cunill (he/him) - Director of Market Research UK & Global Head of Mobile at Bilendi-respondi

Sabrina Trinquetel (she/her) - UK Sales Lead at Measure Protocol, the fastest way to access behavioural data

Our Guests:
Josephine Hansom - Head of Youth, Savanta
Clare Woodward - Enterprise Insight Manager, BT

Get in touch with us:
 LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Twitter: @tweetmrspride

Our fifth episode of OUTsights sees the regular team, Sabrina Trinquetel and Josephine Hansom speak to two more amazing guests. 

Steve Keith talks to us about why and how he created The Queer Student Awards. He tells us how he wanted young LGBTQ+ people to have a safe space to be celebrated and share all the amazing bold work they are doing to drive initiatives forward. 

https://www.thequeerstudentawards.co.uk/

Magda Markowska talks about the LGBTQ+ Consumer reports. The latest one being run in the UK in partnership with Unilever, but others also exist around the globe. These are available in the public so if you're looking for consumer insights, including expectation from businesses and involvement in inclusion from this group, check them out.

https://nielseniq.com/global/en/insights/report/2021/understanding-the-lgbtq-consumer-in-the-u-k/

We share our regular #podgoss updates including highlighting the film 'Gay Black Group' - available on the BFI now, which brings stories of being part of this intersect in1980's Britain. https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-gay-black-group-1983-online

We also direct people to try out the Versiti self assessment for equality for your business to see where you currently stand and help direct the future.: https://www.blog.versiti.co/equality-self-assessment?utm_campaign=ESA_Versiti&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Diehard

And finally we touch upon things we are proud of in our #prideofthepod section, including shout out for the MRS mentoring scheme: https://www.mrs.org.uk/learningCPD/mentoring

And the MRS Pride xCORe film on Intersectionality within market research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9H47eDpDMM&list=WL&index=56&t=4s

Get in touch: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Magda Markowska

Magda works as an Insight Team Manager at NielsenIQ. She’s also a leader of European Women in NielsenIQ network and for 5 years was leading Pride (LGBT+ and allies) network in the company. She was recognized as 2021 Top 100 LGBT+ Future Leader and in 2022 was listed as Top 10 Future Leaders by British LGBT Awards.

Magda is a non-binary queer person. She was born and raised in a small town in Poland in the 80s. She moved to the UK in 2019 where she lives with her wife. A total geek, shy introvert and punk at heart. A firm believer in diversity, equality and inclusion and an advocate of intersectionality.

Steve Keith, The Branding Man

With 16 years of combined experience working in education and early careers recruitment and a passion for supporting young people in making more informed careers choices, Steve is on a mission to create better access to the world of work, using brand experiences that celebrate difference. After leading on several nationally recognised and award-winning apprenticeship focused employer brand campaigns, with professional services firm EY, he left full-time employment in 2018 to launch my own consultancy, The Branding Man.
 
 Over the last 4 years the focus of his work has shifted towards diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging. Part of this journey has involved becoming a podcast host, speaking openly about his struggles with mental

In this our fourth episode, we have some great guests, we recap what MRS Pride is all about and of course we have our regular segments #podgoss and #prideofthepod. Call out on the Diva Awards shortlist 2021 with some surprises for our podcast hosts!  If you have any gossip or prides you'd like us to share on the next podcast, just tweet us @tweetmrspride

We're joined by Simon Pollock (he/him), from Cereal Partners Worldwide and Sasha Scott, who founded Inclusive Group. 

Simon talks us through how he came to be where he is and the ups and downs of how his team have been navigating Covid, and the huge increase in breakfast cereal sales! 

Sasha (she/her) helps businesses action inclusive strategies. Something that is tricky to implement, Sasha has been doing it for 20 years! As the market research industry starts to make progress in this area, it's great to tap into expert experiences to help us drive change. 

Our Hosts:
Josephine Hansom (she/her) - MD at Youthsight, getting a better understanding Gen Z and Millennials
Sabrina Trinquetel (she/her) - UK Sales Lead at Measure Protocol, the fastest way to access behavioural data

Our Guests:
 
Simon Pollock - VP Consumer Insight and Analytics at Cereal Partners Worldwide

Sasha Scott - CEO and Founder of Inclusive Group

Get in touch with us:
LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Welcome to OUTsights, a podcast brought to you by MRSpride and our principal sponsor YouGov. MRSpride is committed to represent, support and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ colleagues, allies and heroes.

We are joined this time by two amazing guests. Chloe Fowler, a veritable veteran of the industry, most recently having launched her solo venture Nest Research, a qual agency focusing on storytelling. Chloe spotlights her career in the industry so far, talks about writing actual letters with actual stamps and writing about sheep. She discusses the tricky balance between bringing your whole self to work (see, shaved heads and Diva magazine hobbies) and being a neutral moderator in order to do your job well (see, changing language to partner not wife, and playing down any 'tells'). Her new projects still allow her an outlet to be deeply bossy and controlling, and watch out for her latest book based on an Elvis Drag King... what more could you want.

Our second guest Ed Jervis, is an inclusive distributor and hugely passionate about it. Early years as a gay catholic in the troubles fostered a passion for social justice and inclusion.

His focus is on upending talent aquisition to better drive EDI. Through 2 new projects, Inclusion Crowd, and Inclusive.Earth a global Think Tank, Ed is challenging passive thinking and action by exposing organisations to apply the same logic as other commercial focused initiatives for inclusivity. He's not happy with the rate of change and he's here to do something about it. If you need inspiration or advice, don't hesitate to reach out to him.

Our Hosts:
Josephine Hansom- MD at Youthsight, getting a better understanding Gen Z and Millennials
Sabrina Trinquetel- UK Sales Lead at Measure Protocol, a person-based data marketplace specialising in behavioural data.

Our Guests:

Ed Jervis- Founder of the global Think Tank- Inclusion.Earth, and founder of Inclusion Crowd, helping organisations create authentic DEI programmes and recruitment.
Chole Fowler- Founder of Nest Research, story focussed qual research, co-founder of Razor Research and author

Get in touch with us:
LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Welcome to OUTsights, a podcast brought to you by MRSpride and our principal sponsor YouGov. MRSpride is committed to represent, support and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ colleagues, allies and heroes.

In this, our second episode, we speak to two of the founding members of Colour of Research (CORe), which advocates for the inclusion of ethnic professionals in the market research industry. It’s mission is to make professionals of diverse ethnicities seen and heard in a sector that they love, but are currently under represented in. Speaking to Charlene  Adamah and Graham Idehen, we hear why there was a need to create the CORe group in the research sector and what the group has already achieved to date. We also speak to Craig Donald from The FA who tells us how The FA became involved in Pride, and how being part of the event and marching was a magical moment for him and his colleagues.

Hosts:

• Josephine Hansom, Managing Director, YouthSight Research
• Sabrina Qureshi, Client Director, Motif

Guests:

• Charlene Adamah, Senior Key Account Manager, Bilendi
• Craig Donald, Chief Information Officer, The FA
• Graham Idehen, Director, Customer Success – EMEA, Lucid

OUTsights is a new podcast from MRSpride, a network connecting LGBTQ+ researchers and allies across the research, insight and data analytics sectors. We want to amplify LGBTQ+ voices and stories, inspire, learn and have a bit of a laugh.