No-One Left Behind: meeting this ambition

The intern for this project will begin exploration of a new, critical analytical aspect of Employability services: “unmet need”. There is currently no central definition for “unmet need” in Employability services so the intern will work across Scottish and Local Government to establish what the various understandings of unmet need are and to collectively determine a working definition for this term. The intern will then explore and summarise what data Local Governments and their partners already collect in terms of unmet need, focussing on what could help us to understand the extent of unmet need in Scotland’s Devolved Employability services. The intern will then work with the Employability Statistics team to help to develop a draft methodology for the regular capturing and reporting of unmet need for No One Left Behind.

Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division Internship – Monitoring and Evaluation of Agricultural Reform

The project you would be working on is in support of the development of Scotland’s Agricultural Reform Programme Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework. This initiative is crucial for assessing the environmental and climate outcomes of the programme, ensuring it drives tangible progress in sustainability and biodiversity. The work will involve designing an intuitive and visually engaging framework that clearly communicates the programme’s goals, performance metrics, interdependencies across different government strategies, and how they align with Scotland’s broader environmental and climate objectives.

Enhancing Evidence Systems for Human Rights Monitoring in Scotland

During its 5th Strategic Plan (2024-28) the Commission is prioritising work to improve its evidence-base informing how human rights are being experienced in Scotland, through a combination of its own contribution and advocacy for improved duty bearer data collection. Critical to our success, is access to a comprehensive and up to date evidence base that pertains to human rights work nationally and beyond. 

Putting the evidence in evidence-informed policy making

This project centres on communicating research evidence to a broad audience, to showcase how evidence informs policy. The intern will take source material from internal presentations and external policy-related publications from the last 2-3 years. They will use this to write a narrative briefing note telling the story of how evidence has shaped policy design, delivery and evaluation in a priority area (Programme for Government priorities: eradicating child poverty; growing the economy; tackling the climate emergency; ensuring high quality and sustainable public services). The objective is to demonstrate evidence-informed policy making in action, by communicating how evidence has underpinned policy in these priority areas. The outputs should be accessible and engaging for a broad audience including policy officials, Ministers and external stakeholders.