The EEF is recruiting two interns to the Evidence Synthesis team. High quality research and evaluation is at the heart of the EEF’s work. The Evidence Synthesis team’s responsibilities within the EEF include producing research and advice on education topics, building and maintaining high quality evidence infrastructure across the organisation, and quality assuring EEF publications. You can read more about the EEF’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, our accessible summary of education evidence, here: Teaching and Learning Toolkit | EEF (educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk)
On a placement with our synthesis team you will working with, and supported by, our existing Research Managers to conduct systematic reviews and internal research projects on relevant education topics. Depending on the projects you work on, you may gain experience with developing search strategies, writing protocols, full text and abstract screening, data extraction,
developing taxonomies, narrative synthesis, meta-analysis and using R. You will also have the opportunity to use these skills on EEF synthesis projects at different stages.
Work might include searching, screening and extracting data from published education studies, supporting internal research projects to produce outputs of high quality, using rigorous methods (e.g. REA on remote education), and working across other EEF teams to ensure outputs are accurate, accessible and engaging. At the end of your placement, you will have the opportunity to continue working with the EEF, either by applying for upcoming internal or external vacancies, as they arise, or as part of our pool of remote coders.
Full details on the internship and how to apply are here: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ESRC-DTP-Internship-2025_EEF-Synthesis.pdf