Ruth Preston

Ruth has almost 20 years experience in qualitative research during that time has worked with a number of impressive companies such as Unilever, Bacardi Global Brands, Johnson & Johnson and GHD as well as numerous smaller companies. Ruth also works in the arts and charities sectors, for example working with Southbank Centre and Smoke Free North East. She brings her creativity to bear in her qualitative research, always exploring and experimenting with new tools and techniques from a variety of fields: NLP; anthropology; psychology and behavioural economics. Ruth has fully embraced the need to focus on System 1 [fast] thinking to understand behavioural drivers as well as to encourage good, in depth System 2 to enable self-analysis and innovative thinking within groups and works with a specialist agency to incorporate facial coding analysis to capture split second emotional responses to stimuli. She also runs moderator training courses for other agencies (marketing and research agencies) and for client companies looking to connect directly with their consumers.