New starters in user research at DfE
What you need to know if you’ve just joined DfE as a civil servant or contractor user researcher.
Guidance, information and support for any user researcher working in Department for Education
This website should be used alongside DfE Apply the Service Standard, and it complements the user research section in the UK Government Service Manual, which covers user research more broadly.
What you need to know if you’ve just joined DfE as a civil servant or contractor user researcher.
How we come together as one DfE user research community to learn and support each other.
These are the principles that we hold ourselves to as user researchers at DfE. Find out more about our principles, why they exist, and how we help you meet them.
This principle is about researching in a way that is inclusive of all our users, and ensuring our teams understand them and their needs.
This principle is about helping our teams to do what’s right for users, avoiding assumptions, and mitigating biases.
This principle is about ensuring we and our teams always meet high professional standards for user research.
This principle is about the way we work in our teams and with other user researchers to help deliver DfE’s goals.
This principle is about developing as user researchers, and coming together in our user research community.
This principle is about advocating for user research in our teams, the department, and the wider world.