Montague (pictured) joins the company from healthcare specialist Elma Research.

She is a mixed methods researcher who has held agency and client-side roles, including at DJS Research, RS Components and Millward Brown.

Blue Marble specialises in research in the public sector, utilities, FMCG and financial services.

The company has also appointed Sonali Patel and JJ Tomlinson as research managers.

Qualitative specialist Patel has previously worked at Basis Research and Incling, and Tomlinson’s prior roles include The Good Side, British Red Cross and M&C Saatchi World Services.

Emma Partridge, partner, Blue Marble, said: “With these three new hires, we are hoping to build on the strong recent performance of the business, having emerged successfully from the pandemic.”