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Sociologist / Social Researcher

Understand how society actually works

€30k-€65k Medium demand

Sociologists study social behaviour, institutions and structures - working in universities, think tanks, government, NGOs and market research, translating data about people into insight.

1Designing a qualitative study on housing insecurity

2Interviewing research participants and finding unexpected patterns

3Writing a briefing for a government policy team

4Teaching students who've never questioned why society looks the way it does

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Qualitative & quantitative analysis

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Policy communication

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