Government Social Research

I do quite a lot of admin, minute taking, organising meetings. I often handle parliamentary business. There are a few research projects that I oversee but am not personally involved in research.

as a social researcher in DWP, i have had a variety of tasks. this can be helping in the conducting of research, but mainly performing secondary analysis in key departmental policy areas

My role involves engaging in team meetings, designing and critiquing questionnaire/interview scripts and conudcitng statistical analysis

I work Monday to Thursday in my assigned government department and team, with Fridays as my study day. My role involves completing analysis of research and producing final outputs that can be shared with other teams in the department.

Part of a team working on short term projects- ranging from research to evaluations

I am being trained to lead one of the largest quantitative surveys in HMRC, where in my day-to-day role I attend meetings, take notes, work with external contractors, complete QA tasks and better my skills in data analysis. I often attend internal and ext...

I work Mon-Thurs with Friday as a university study day. I work within the analysis function to carry out research according to the need of my department. This involves managing research projects with external contractors and working on in-house research p...

Conducting, analysing and evaluating both existing and new research & data. Uncovering drivers in peoples actions to enable the government to have a rich insight into what makes people think and act the way they do.

Monday to Thursday I focus on the work aspect of my apprenticeship so on a typical day I will either log on from home or the office and firstly check my teams and reply to any messages and then check my emails and reply to any if needed. I will then talk...

I work on an internal Evidence Library, which hosts a range of internal and external evidence that covers topics spanning the criminal justice system, through hosting early adopter pilots and uploading evidence. I also work with the NRC, assessing researc...

My role is very varied. It involves engaging with policy colleagues to develop research projects and understand their evidence needs, developing and carrying out smaller research projects - eg. surveys with Local Authorities, conducting Rapid Evidence Ass...

I support on lots of work within my team and across the Department. I help manage a large consumer survey, and engage heavily in the development of questions, fieldwork and reviewing reports. I also work on the publication of past research. The other main...

A cycle of collating data for each quarter of the Participation Survey and publishing it. Quality Assuring the publication documents. Attending team meetings to keep track of progress and any hurdles the team is facing.

Strategic analysis: analysing the long-term interactions between demand and capacity of general practices. Research and compiling a literature review on the current state of GP access. Data analysis and visualisation, summary statistics and involved mysel...