Thom Blake

Thom is part of the senior management team at Bunnyfoot, providing leadership and guidance to staff and helping drive the company forwards.

His main areas of focus are Research Support Services; including participant recruitment, IT, studio hire, company facilities and UX lab-build consultancy. Thom also heads up our Sustainability working group; driving positive change and reducing our impact on the planet and environment. He’s also our Data Protection Officer/GDPR guru and principle tea drinker. 

As the manager of Bunnyfield (our industry-leading fieldwork participant recruitment partner), Thom helps maintain our goal of finding our clients the perfect participants for their research and ensuring they have access to the best-equipped and best-staffed studios.

Moving on from publishing as a software support engineer and technical instruction manual author, he joined Bunnyfoot in 2007. Since then, Thom has been responsible for designing and supporting IT and AV solutions on hundreds of UCD projects testing all media channels; from console games and set-top boxes to in-store shopping experiences and mobile and tablet devices. Thom has traveled the globe setting up and providing support for our testing facilities. He is also responsible for locating and kitting out new Bunnyfoot offices around the UK.

Recently, he has worked with Deliveroo, Diabetes UK, Argos and John Lewis (amongst many others) helping them spec, source and build their own user experience labs (including supplying hardware, installation, training and on-going support).

Outside of work, Thom likes taking photos, writing, eating spicy food, fixing classic cars, driving electric cars and watching live music. His favourite film is Being John Malkovich.