Emily Rayner

Associate Director & Qualitative Research Lead

Emily Rayner

Emily leads Claremont's collaborative research approach, and is an expert in co-design and broader qualitative research.

Emily has spent her career working in organisations that help to improve people’s lives - in particular children and families - with a decade working at Save the Children UK, where she worked on an innovative behaviour change project to support parents to boost their child’s early language development.

At Claremont, Emily has worked with colleagues to develop our co-design model, COLAB. She is adept at empowering research participants to share their lived experiences and works collaboratively with end-audiences to ideate innovative solutions to the problems they are facing. Emily has delivered qualitative research online and in-person, 1:1 and in groups, adapting to fit the needs of the participants, so that everyone can participate fully in the process. Emily regularly works with marginalised and seldom heard audiences which has included women who’ve experienced domestic violence, young people at risk of coming to harm, unpaid carers and adults with mental health conditions.

She has worked on projects ranging from family nutrition, physical activity, cancer screening, Alzheimer's, social housing, knife crime, language transmission and water safety. She is an experienced project manager and account lead, working on some of Claremont's largest accounts.

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