Neil Wholey is Head of Research and Customer Insight at Westminster City Council, and an experienced social researcher managing Westminster’s public opinion research programme and working with a number of different local authorities on their own research projects through Westminster's trading company Westco. His team has won the PR Week award for research 2010, the Association of Measurement and Evaluation in Communications (AMEC) in-house team of the year 2010, the Government Business Awards for market research in 2009 and 2010, the CIPR Research and Evaluation Award in 2008 and 2009 and the European Excellence Award for Evaluation in 2007 – often beating both public and private sector organisations. Neil worked for Ipsos MORI before joining Westminster at the beginning of 2006. He is a member of the LARIA Council which represents local authority researchers and chairs LG Insight which showcase local government research who provide insightful research findings that can be acted upon. You can follow Neil on Twitter @neilwholey