Equality and Diversity Research Assistant Review

This is a great place to work and the people are lovely. There is a nice young community with the placement students, graduate interns and graduate scheme recruits. The location, however, is the main down-side. The content of the job is fairly interesting and I have been a fair amount of responsibility to conduct the research and create my own deadlines.

My colleagues are supportive and always answer my queries and talk to me! Very friendly.

Fairly supportive though I am left to get on with my work. I do like this though it can be difficult to work to deadlines that have not been set, I have to decide on deadlines myself to get my work done efficiently.

Varies completely! I can be as bored or busy as I choose to make myself.

I am conducting the research by myself and have been given the responisibility to do this and to set up meetings and carry out other admin tasks when required.

Although this placement is great, I feel that I already had the research anbd time-management skills from my degree. It has allowed me to gain work experience, however, and shows that I am willing to relocate for a job.

Very friendly working environment and had the balance just right. Too much banter would have been distracting but it had the right amount to feel relaced and friendl without being too much.

As this was a new scheme for the organisation and I was the first graduate intern to start, I was not set up with A desk, email and phone for a while at the start. This meant I spent several days doing background reading which was a bit dull. Also, I did not meet any of the placement students and graduate scheme recruits for a while. The interns that have joined more recently have found it easier to settle in as I have contacted them and arranged to meet them for lunch etc.

I have been given the opportunity to go on some training courses that are being ran internally.

I like the organisation but am not too keen on the location. I would rather be working in a city.

I have people to go to the pub and watch the football with, meet people on the canteen at lunch everyday. Go out at weekends in Oxford. Very good social scene!

Being in Didcot, it is a commuter town for Reading, Oxford and London. The cost of living and socialising is reasonable but not cheap. Some of the other staff live in Oxford which is further away from work and more expensive to live in, but has a better social life so I wish I had moved there.

Didcot only has a few pubs! Though Oxford is nearby and has decent nightlife. I'd recommend living in Oxford!

I have looked into voluntary work to do alongside my placement but have not found anything locally, so I am looking in Oxford.