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Reference: 98426

Date Added: 23 January 2026
Closing Date: 9 February 2026

Job Title: Researcher

Working For: Hopkins Van Mil

Location: London

Salary: £30,000-£35,000 per year

Length of Contract: Permanent

Job Details

Are you curious about the world around you? Are you excited by collaborative, supportive and creative research? Join the HVM team as a Researcher

Who we are:
Hopkins Van Mil’s mission is to bring people together to inform the future. We distil the collective voices of society and deliver meaningful insights and provide spaces for change. Our vision is a better society built on thoughtful social insights explored and implemented with humanity and kindness.

We work with clients across the public sector on issues including health and social care, data systems, the environment and climate change, and cultural heritage. Current clients include the MET Office, UK Research and Innovation, Genomics England, The Nuffield Foundation, Which? the consumer association, National Lottery Community Fund Wales, and the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge.

What we’re looking for:
Our ideal Researcher is flexible, confident, with an ability to prioritise complex and competing deliverables. You’ll want to have an excellent rapport with our close-knit team and with our clients, stakeholders and research participants. You will be happy to pick up the phone to recruit people to our workshops or arrange and conduct stakeholder interviews; you may have some experience as a facilitator, but if not, demonstrate a curiosity about what people have to say and a willingness to learn. You are likely to have conducted some early career research work outside of a higher education context and want to develop your skills in the full research cycle from early design, through fieldwork, coding and analysis to final report.

You are:

  • Super organised with excellent attention to detail
  • Hardworking, enthusiastic and flexible
  • Calm and able to problem solve efficiently including quick thinking under pressure
  • Proactive and enthusiastic
  • Focused on the needs of participants and others involved in the delivery of our research programmes
  • Empathetic and creative
  • Skilled at Microsoft Office (essential)
  • Have experience of working with analytic tools such as NVivo (desirable)

HVM recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Find out more: http://bit.ly/4sQjOaF 

Closing Date: 9 February 2026

Interview/Start Dates

The deadline for applications is 10am.

Interviews will be held on 24th February 2026 at our London office.

We’re interested in someone joining us as soon as possible, so please get in touch.

Application Details

If you have any questions about the role, please contact admin@hopkinsvanmil.co.uk 

To apply, please complete this form https://forms.office.com/e/P83Me1xVdn 

explaining why you are the best fit for this role and upload a brief CV (no more than 2 pages) describing your skills and previous experience.

Website: http://www.hopkinsvanmil.co.uk

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