I was asked for some ideas for a list of organisations that might be a source of employment or experience for those graduating from our various Politics degree programmes. See below for my work in progress list. We do not currently have good data on where our graduates have gone on to, but those organisations marked with an * are places where I know one of our students has worked.
N.b. I am not endorsing these organisations as good places to work or suggesting that they will consider hiring you. They simply seem like they might be of interest, based on my (sometimes very limited) knowledge of them. Suggestions welcome.
N.b. also that the list is deliberately made up of those organisations that seem most substantively relevant for Politics graduates. Plenty of people will go on to work in areas quite different from this.
Governmental/Official(ish)
- European Commission stages (Brussels) *
- NATO (Brussels)
- Irish Human Rights Commission (Dublin) *
- Medicins Sans Frontieres
- Cifal Scotland (Edinburgh) *
Polling, Survey, and Policy Research
- Red C (Dublin)
- YouGov (International)
- Ipsos MORI (UK)
- Opinion Leader (UK) * – apparently part of graduate recruitment scheme of Chime PLC
Public Policy Analysis and Think Tanks
- British Irish Chamber of Commerce (Dublin) *
- Institute of International and European Affairs (Dublin) *
- TASC (Dublin)
- Economic and Social Research Institute (Dublin)
- European Council on Foreign Relations (International)
- Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels)
- European Policy Centre (Brussels)
- Bruegel (Brussels)
- Irish Fiscal Policy Research Centre, aka PublicPolicy.ie (Dublin).
- International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, Washington, Singapore, Bahrain)
- Chatham House (London)
- Re-Define (London and Brussels)
- Institute for Public Policy Research (London and Newcastle)
- Demos (London)
- Centre for European Reform (London)
- Institute of Economic Affairs (London)
Public Affairs
- Transatlantic Public Affairs (Dublin)
Policy Job Aggregators
- PolicyJobs.net (International)
- Working For An MP (London)
- PoliticalJobs.net (International)
- EuroBrussels.com (Brussels)
- Human Rights in Ireland blog category for Job Opportunities and Internships.
PhD Programmes with (some) funding
- Department of Political Science, UCL
- Department of Government, LSE
- Department of Politics and IR, University of Oxford
- Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin
- Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute
- Department of Political Science, Central European University
Timothy Hicks 