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Salary survey report: social & policy research
June 2026 salary benchmarks and hiring trends for social and policy research within UK market research agencies.
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The future of research: how AI is reshaping the profession
How automated workflows, synthetic sampling and generative tools are redefining core researcher capabilities.
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Hiring & inclusion
A guide to inclusive hiring →
Practical ways to make a hiring brief, outreach, assessment and onboarding more inclusive.
Hiring & inclusion
The Bell Curve is Killing Talent →
Everyone seems to be talking about how AI will transform recruitment. I'm more concerned about what it is quietly destroying.
Market insight
Pharma has more data than ever, so why is human insight becoming more valuable? →
Healthcare and pharmaceutical organisations have never had access to so much information.
Careers
We’re Not Short of Future Researchers. They Just Don’t Know It Yet. →
As thousands of students head back to university this month, the research industry has a talent challenge – and it starts much earlier than recruitment.
Market insight
What matters most to the next generation of researchers? →
What early-career researchers told us at ESOMAR: they want to work with AI, value stability over small pay rises and expect a visible path to progress.
Careers
Why an August job search can put you ahead →
Hiring doesn’t stop for the summer. Hiring managers are planning for autumn and fewer candidates are looking, so August can be the best month to start your search.
Market insight
The future of research: how AI is reshaping the profession →
How automated workflows, synthetic sampling, and generative tools are redefining core researcher capabilities.
Market insight
Salary survey report: social & policy research →
June 2026 salary benchmarks and hiring trends for social and policy research within UK market research agencies.
Market insight
Insight Census 2024/25: optimism falls as AI reshapes the profession →
Findings from around 1,000 practitioners on market headwinds, career sentiment, and sector resilience.
Hiring & inclusion
Older, wiser professionals are essential in the AI age →
Liz Norman on why wisdom, lived context and critical judgement matter as AI reshapes the insight profession.
Careers
Stakeholder management – the new must-have skill for data analysts →
Technical modelling remains foundational, but influence and commercial storytelling increasingly define the best data careers.
Market insight
Impact report 2023–24: how we’re driving change →
How ENI approached sustainability, inclusion and community support in 2023–24, and the goals it set for 2025.
ENI Insight Census
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Salaries, careers and how people feel about the work, from around 1,000 insight professionals in our 2024/25 Census.
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