Graduate Junior Researcher
This is an exciting opportunity to join our industry-leading social research agency – working on ground-breaking research for government, regulators, charities, NGOs and the private sector. As part of our ambitious and collaborative research team you’ll be given real responsibility from day one, with the opportunity for rapid progression.
Junior Researchers quickly become a core part of project teams. Rather than just performing a series of tasks, you’ll be expected to be innovative, inquisitive and show a passion for problem solving – whether exploring topics in desk research, interviewing people from around the UK, or getting involved in analysis.
You’ll see projects through all the way from start to completion, helping to recruit participants, develop ideas and findings through in-depth analysis, as well as producing and delivering research reports and outputs.
You may not know much about Revealing Reality, but we are the people who:
- Ensure isolated people – from young people with learning disabilities through to middle-aged men at risk of suicide – are properly supported and connected within their local communities
- Are helping shape the UK’s approach to migration and asylum through research with service users across the world
- Inform the government’s strategy on protecting children online by exploring teens’ experiences of watching porn or sending nudes
- Have pushed the gambling industry to deliver far higher quality safer gambling interventions to protect their customers
- Are transforming the spectator experience of international football tournaments, from the World Cup to the Euros
- Are pressing for people in residential care homes to be able to stay connected using internet-enabled technologies
These represent only a few of the 40+ projects we are working on at any given time. We influence policymakers, designers and strategists. Our work is diverse, spanning health, media and technology, environmental policy, financial capability and beyond. We work for national and local government, regulators, charities, NGOs and the private sector.
When social problems seem intractable and the worlds of academia, industry, policy experts and the big-name consultancies are out of ideas, we are the people asked to help.
All our projects start with research because without a solid understanding of how the world works, there is little hope of making it better. But research does little on its own – so we expect our teams to be able to problem solve using design, innovation and consultancy skills.
We know much of this will be new to you but if you genuinely want to learn – about everything – how things work, what you’ve misunderstood, how to drive change, coupled with the qualities of patience, determination, humility and the knowledge that you can achieve far more working in a high functioning team than you will ever achieve on your own, then this is just about the perfect job for you.
We invest heavily in graduates joining as junior researchers supporting and guiding throughout whilst you get paid to learn, do good, work with similarly ambitious, positive people and have fun doing it.
Interested? Want to hear more? We know it can be hard to see the path ahead when you’re starting out, so please refer to the career and opportunities page on our website to read what, the people who are at Revealing Reality, from junior researchers who have only been here a few months, to seniors with over five years under their belts have to tell you a little about what they think of their role here.