MEET OUR
TEAM
Experienced. Responsive. Healthcare-literate.
Our healthcare fieldwork team combines clinical understanding with operational precision.
Becki Pickering
Fieldwork Director
Becki brings over 18 years of healthcare research experience and leads our specialist fieldwork division. She’s passionate about getting under the skin of clinical behaviours and has managed everything from multi-market device trials to sensitive patient ethnographies.
Most memorable project: Recruiting an ongoing study looking at pandemic crisis procedure amongst vulnerable adults, children and HCP’s.
Alan Shirley
Head of Healthcare
Alan connects our clients with the right solution every time. His background includes all healthcare studies and is our go-to for managing complex multi-phase studies and high-volume recruits.
Most memorable project: UK wide Regulatory Reform Panel review with HCP’s and patients all in a room together with many layered quotas and complexities.
Harriet Connell
Senior Project Manager
Harriet is known for her meticulous attention to detail and calm project management under pressure. Harriet is the go-to for hard-to-reach audiences.
Most memorable project: Recruiting veterans suffering with Musculoskeletal Chronic Pain, underlying diseases and tissue damage which had resulted in them leaving service.
Will Hancock
Project Manager
Will is the first point of contact for many participants. His strength lies in building trust and engagement, especially in sensitive or complex recruitment scenarios.
Most memorable project: A Diabetic Eye Screening project speaking to those with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes living in deprived areas to understand their experiences with eye examinations.
Beth Godfrey
Project Manager
Beth has over 10 years’ experience in all thing’s healthcare. Beth is our fertility, neonatal and aesthetics focused specialist.
Most memorable project: A human embryo research project speaking with people who have experienced recurrent miscarriage, parents of children who have developmental conditions, people who have experienced fertility treatment, people with different religious/spiritual beliefs, people who are disabled and those with a chronic illness. The study was to understand people’s views of the societal and ethical issues around HDBI research.
Erin Webster
Head of Recruitment
Erin heads up the recruitment team and loves coming up with ideas for sourcing and engaging with hard to reach audiences.
Most memorable project: Too hard to choose just one but Erin has worked on everything from diabetes to mental health, dentists to ophthalmologists and supported the team on everything in between.
Shannon Burnside
Project Manager
Shannon’s key strengths are attention to detail in particular combing through potential recruits to spot the correct fit, and working on the projects that require more outreach in order to get patients and healthcare professionals.
Most memorable project: A tricky multi layered and multiple round project looking for Parkinson’s patients – building the trust of key support groups and local charities throughout the UK enabled this and the extra outreach proved invaluable.
Oscar Butler
Recruitment Specialist
Oscar is one of our in-house recruiters. Oscar is great at problem solving and presenting himself with a can do attitude, he particularly enjoys speaking to all the different participants and being the port of call if they have any questions.
Most memorable project: Oscar particularly enjoyed a study where he recruited parents of children with feeding tubes. Oscar enjoyed speaking to the participants and really getting an understanding of the challenges and joys they experience on a daily basis.
Polly Graves
Recruitment Specialist
Polly is one of our recruiters that specialises in healthcare. Polly enjoys being able to put participants at ease over the phone, especially on sensitive project types, by being a non-judgemental and supportive voice.
Most memorable project: Their most memorable project was a study on fertility research. They said it was humbling to hear so many accounts of resilience in the face of such difficult moments in women’s lives.