Ask Us: Faunalytics’ Virtual Office Hours

Faunalytics' team of specialists are here to answer your questions about how to make your advocacy as effective as possible.

Author: Jo Anderson | Published: January 16, 2019

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For more than 20 years, Faunalytics has been the research arm of the animal advocacy movement. We hope that you turn to us when you’re looking for a statistic, the best way to tackle an advocacy problem, or advice about research!

Ask A Librarian!

Tues. 12pm–1pm ET
Max time per person: 30 mins

Faunalytics’ Content Director karol (he/him) is our resident expert on finding existing research on a given advocacy topic.

Reach out to karol in English, Polish, or French.

Great questions for karol:

What are some good resources on topic X?
What data is available related to topic X?
How can I create an impactful visual for a dataset?

Ask A Researcher!

Wed. 10am–11am ET
Max time per person: 30 mins

Faunalytics’ Research Scientist Andrea (she/her) has years of experience in research and grassroots animal advocacy.

Reach out to Andrea in English or Spanish.

Great questions for Andrea:

How can I test whether my group’s approach is effective?
How can animal welfare research help my advocacy?
How do I know whether this welfare campaign will make things meaningfully better for animals?

Ask A Researcher!

Thu. 1:00-2:00pm ET
Max time per person: 30 mins

Faunalytics’ Research Scientist Zach (he/they) has years of experience in research and working in economic development.

Reach out to Zach in English.

Great questions for Zach:

How can I test whether my group’s approach is effective?
How can I use R to clean, analyze, and visualize my data?
What’s so great about randomized controlled trials (RCTs) anyway?

About Office Hours

Faunalytics’ weekly, pro-bono Office Hours provide the opportunity to receive one-on-one help with research design, strategy, and/or general questions. Office Hours are held via Google Meet video conferencing.

How To Join
Join any Office Hour (at any time during the hour) by clicking JOIN NOW above. Please note that if we are very busy we may not be able to let you into the session. We are sincerely sorry if this happens and encourage you to try back later in the session or on another day.

Book Another Time
If you’d like to attend an Office Hour but are unable to attend at the scheduled time, we invite you to contact our team to schedule a time that works for you. Our email addresses can be found on our Team page.

Pro-Bono Thanks To Our Supporters
We offer up to 30 minutes per organization (or independent advocate) per office hour, and up to 3 hours total per calendar year. Organizations with annual revenues under USD $1 million are offered up to 5 additional hours of support per year, with timing dependent on capacity. If you would benefit from more assistance beyond these caps, we offer limited additional hours of support to any organization or individual at a small fee, depending on your needs and our team’s availability.

Custom Research
If you are inquiring about custom research for your organization, please email our Research Director, Dr. Jo Anderson, for details. We offer Partner Projects on a limited basis, capacity allowing.

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Author: Jo Anderson

Jo Anderson is an advocate for animals and empirical research. She has many years of experience with a wide range of social science research methods and topics, as well as advanced training in statistical analysis. Jo became Faunalytics' Research Director in 2017 and since then has led and supervised studies of attitudes and behavior pertaining to animals and veganism, advocate retention, donation decision-making, and many other topics. Jo has a PhD in social psychology from the University of Waterloo and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. Jo's spare-time interests include sewing, reading, finding accidentally-vegan junk food, doting over cats, and being generally indoorsy.