When you join DfE, you're joining a friendly group of passionate professionals, who want to deliver great research for our teams, and make a real difference to the users of DfE services and policies. It's our goal to make Department for Education the best place in government to be a user researcher and our active and supportive community of practice is a big part of that.
We regularly come together in community of practice meetups, have active and friendly Slack channels, and various community initiatives, working groups and interest groups to get involved in.
Find a DfE user researcher
We keep a list of all user researchers currently working in the Department (DfE SharePoint users only).
Our UR community principles for delivering great user research
Together we created a set of principles describing how we deliver our best work as DfE user researchers.
These principles are:
- We include all of our users, and bring them to the heart of the department’s work
- We are objective and use evidence
- We do high quality, safe and ethical research
- We are adaptable and collaborative, and focus our research in the right places
- We learn as a community and by ourselves
- We celebrate our work, and help others understand what we do
Read more about our principles, what they mean, and how we apply them.
We used these principles to design our mission patch sticker, which shows an otter looking for insights. Like us, otters are collaborative, adaptable, and effective as individuals with a strong sense of community.
Get a mission patch laptop sticker from your local UR community lead.