Emily Pechey

With a background is in Psychology, and a passion for learning how people think, feel and experience the world around them, Emily started her career as an academic researcher at the University of Cambridge. Moving away from academia, Emily enjoyed the switch to agency life working for a FMCG-specialised market research agency, testing brands, concepts, and managing sensory panels, before joining Navigator.

Emily's interest in qualitative research came from working on research into parent’s lived experience of the transition to parenthood, and observational work of infant attachment and development, at the Centre for Family Research. Her quantitative skills grew in a second role working for the Behaviour Change by Design programme, at the Department of Public Health, which investigated the effectiveness of interventions aimed at changing people’s health-related behaviours, such as smoking, drinking and eating unhealthily. Emily is particularly interested in behaviour change, and the impact that the environment people live in has on their motivation, capability and opportunity to change their behaviour.