Jess is a founding partner of Humankind Research, an agency specialising in human insight for social impact. Her experience covers a wide range of audiences and topics: from comms development for charity supporter audiences in the U.K.; to understanding the lives of marginalised girls in Sierra Leone to inform programmatic design. Previously, Jess was a senior member of the not-for-profit team at an international research agency. Her work has taken all around the world – from Myanmar and Indonesia to Guinea and Ivory Coast – exploring topics including child marriage and trafficking. She is a longstanding Samaritans volunteer and active in their prisons work.
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How to engage a development-cynical audience: insights from Daily Mail readers
Research suggests how to break through anti-international development rhetoric to reach a sceptical public.