Support and guidance

Information for new starters

Information for anybody joining DfE as a civil servant or contractor user researcher.

Research operations

Help with recruiting participants, as well as other support and advice.

Guidance library

Guidance and advice about how we plan and deliver user research in DfE.

Community of practice

Meetups and Teams channels for our active and friendly user research community of practice.

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Our community principles for delivering great user research

Read about our UR community principles

  • Principle 1 We include all of our users, and bring them to the heart of the department’s work

  • Principle 2 We are objective and use evidence

  • Principle 3 We do high quality, safe and ethical research

  • Principle 4 We are adaptable and collaborative, and focus our research in the right places

  • Principle 5 We learn as a community and by ourselves

  • Principle 6 We celebrate our work, and help others understand what we do