Free Virtual Office Hours
Our team of experts, at your service
Welcome to our free virtual office hours. Need guidance, support, or just a specialist to exchange ideas with? Join us online for personalised, pro-bono assistance tailored to all and every stakeholder interested in animal advocacy effectiveness.
Who Is Our Office Hours For?
Animal advocates and activists, volunteers, junior and senior researchers, campaigners, animal welfare scientists, pro-animal policymakers, impact-led funders, animal advocacy leaders and strategists, and of course, any stakeholder interested in reducing farmed animal suffering as much as possible.
How does it work?
Easy! You just need to scroll down and see what Animal Ask staff member you would like to have an office hour with. Areas of expertise and topics of discussion of each staff member are included to make your decision easier for you.
You can easily book an available time for your one-on-one pro-bono session. We use Google Calendar Appointment schedule and Google Meet. Our service consists of 30 minutes max one-on-one calls. If in doubt, we encourage you to err on the side of booking a session!
Office Hour With George Bridgwater
Co-founder and Head of Research
Fridays, 5pm-6pm Europe/London time
Areas of expertise and topics of discussion
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How Animal Ask can help your campaigns or organisation
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Evaluation metrics
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Prioritisation research methods
Office Hour With George Bridgwater
Co-founder and Head of Research
Fridays, 5pm-6pm Europe/London time
Areas of expertise and topics of discussion
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How Animal Ask can help your campaigns or organisation
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Evaluation metrics
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Prioritisation research methods
Office Hour With George Bridgwater
Co-founder and Head of Research
Fridays, 8am-9am Europe/London time
Areas of expertise and topics of discussion
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How Animal Ask can help your campaigns or organisation
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Evaluation metrics
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Prioritisation research methods
Office Hour With George Bridgwater
Co-founder and Head of Research
Fridays, 5pm-6pm Europe/London time
Areas of expertise and topics of discussion
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How Animal Ask can help your campaigns or organisation
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Evaluation metrics
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Prioritisation research methods
Office Hour With Ren Ryba
Research Scientist
Fridays, 1pm-2pm Oceania/Adelaide time
Areas of expertise and topics of discussion
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Any of my published reports
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Quantitative research / statistics as applied to animal welfare
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Environmental science / ecology as applied to animal welfare
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Economics as applied to animal welfare
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Wild animal population modelling, and fisheries science as applied to animal welfare
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Political parties and animal advocacy in politics
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Prioritising impactful interventions, and conducting monitoring and evaluation
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Anything that isn't on this list but that you think might be highly impactful for us to talk about
Office Hour With Max Carpendale
Research Analyst
Fridays, 1pm-2pm PST/Vancouver time
Areas of expertise and topics of discussion
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Any of my published reports
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Animal sentience
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Wild animal suffering
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Longtermism and animals
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Social movement strategy
Office Hour With José Ramón Mallén
Global Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator
Fridays, 2pm-3pm Europe/Madrid time
Areas of expertise and topics of discussion
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How could Animal Ask help your advocacy?
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For partner organisations: Exploring fundraising for recommended asks
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PR and stakeholder engagement in effective animal advocacy
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Farmed fish welfare in Europe
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Organisation development
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Animal advocacy strategic frameworks
Meetings can be held in English and Spanish (native).
Other Services We Offer
Please, see our Our Work and Services section to find how Animal Ask supports animal advocacy organisations through our three programs: Ask Prioritisation, Consultation and Movement Strategy Research.
We periodically seek applications for research support with animal advocacy organisations to assist them in their missions to help other animals. If you think this would be something you may be interested in, please get in contact through our expression of interest form or get in touch to discuss wether or how we might be able to support your advocacy.
Anonymous Form
We provide our partner organisations and rest of stakeholders a completely anonymous form to share their feedback in a secure way. Advocates and stakeholders using our Office Hour service can also make use of our anonymous form should they like to give us feedback.