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Showing 121–144 of 161 published occupations · page 6 of 7
Law, compliance and justice
Finds, analyses, and summarises legislation, case law, and commentary for lawyers, courts, law reform bodies, or publishers. The output is usually a memorandum that states not just what the law is but how confident the answer can be.
Law, compliance and justice
Helps an organization meet the laws, regulations, and internal rules that apply to it, by writing the rules down, checking whether people follow them, and reporting when they do not. The role sits awkwardly between advising the business and holding it to account.
Law, compliance and justice
Prepares and manages the submissions that let a regulated product reach the market and stay there. Common in medicines, medical devices, food, chemicals, and financial products, the role translates technical evidence into what a regulator asks for.
Law, compliance and justice
Owns how an organization collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information. The work mixes legal interpretation, process design, and incident response, and often means telling a project that the data it wants cannot be used the way it hoped.
Law, compliance and justice
Reviews, drafts, and tracks contracts across their whole life, from first draft through renewal or exit. The value of the role is largely in catching the clause nobody read and in knowing which obligations fall due next month.
Law, compliance and justice
A neutral third party who helps people in conflict talk to each other and look for an agreement they can both live with. The mediator runs the process but does not decide the outcome, which is what separates the role from arbitration.
Law, compliance and justice
A private decision-maker appointed by the parties to hear a dispute and issue a binding award. The role looks judicial but sits on the parties' agreement, so procedure is more flexible and the reasoning still has to withstand scrutiny.
Law, compliance and justice
Supervises people released from custody on parole or conditional release, and prepares the assessments a releasing board relies on. Reintegration support and risk management run side by side throughout the role.
Law, compliance and justice
Drafts patent applications from an inventor's technical disclosure and argues them through examination at a patent office. The role sits between engineering and law: the claims have to describe the invention precisely and survive legal challenge.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Quality assurance technicians look after the system that is supposed to prevent defects, rather than only catching them at the end. They maintain procedures and records, run internal audits, follow up corrective actions, and pull together the data that shows whether a process is under control. The role leans on documentation discipline and clear written communication.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Continuous improvement specialists study how work actually flows through a plant and lead structured projects to remove waste, variation, and rework. They gather and analyse process data, facilitate improvement events with the people doing the job, and make sure changes are standardised rather than drifting back. Influence matters as much as analysis, because the changes land on other people's teams.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Occupational health and safety officers help an organisation identify hazards, control risk, and meet its legal duties. They inspect workplaces, investigate incidents, deliver training, and keep the documentation that shows controls are working. The role needs credibility with both front-line workers and management, since it often involves asking for work to change or stop.
Natural sciences and research
Biologists study living organisms and the systems they belong to, from cells and genes up to whole populations. Much of the work is designing studies, running them carefully enough that someone else could repeat them, and writing up what the results actually support. Specialisms vary widely, so two biologists can have very little day-to-day overlap.
Natural sciences and research
Microbiologists study bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other organisms too small to see without a microscope. The work spans identifying what is growing in a sample, testing how organisms respond to conditions or treatments, and confirming that products, water, or clinical specimens meet safety standards. Sterile technique and meticulous record-keeping matter as much as the science.
Natural sciences and research
Biochemists study the chemical processes inside living things: how proteins fold, how enzymes behave, how a drug candidate interacts with a target. The work is heavily instrument-based and iterative: most experiments fail or return ambiguous results before a clean one lands. Roles sit in universities, hospitals, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical research.
Natural sciences and research
Astronomers study objects and processes beyond Earth using telescope observations, archival survey data, and simulations. In practice the work is dominated by writing code, handling very large datasets, and applying for observing time or funding. Instrument and software development is a substantial part of many posts.
Natural sciences and research
Hydrologists study how water moves through and is stored in the environment: rivers, aquifers, catchments, and the systems built around them. The work supports flood risk assessment, water supply planning, contamination investigation, and environmental permitting. It combines field measurement with modelling and a good deal of regulatory reporting.
Natural sciences and research
Meteorologists study the atmosphere and turn observations and model output into forecasts and warnings. Operational forecasting runs around the clock and carries real consequences for aviation, shipping, emergency services, and the public. Research meteorology focuses instead on improving the models and understanding atmospheric processes.
Natural sciences and research
Environmental scientists investigate how human activity affects air, water, soil, and ecosystems, and what can be done about it. A large share of the work is regulatory: site investigations, permit applications, monitoring programmes, and impact assessments. Findings usually have to be defensible to a regulator, not just scientifically interesting.
Natural sciences and research
Marine biologists study organisms that live in the sea and the habitats that support them, from plankton and coral to fish stocks and marine mammals. Fieldwork can involve boats, diving, or shore surveys, but a great deal of the role is sample processing, data analysis, and writing. Work often connects to fisheries management, conservation, or aquaculture rather than pure research.
Natural sciences and research
Zoologists study animals (their behaviour, physiology, genetics, and populations) in the wild, in collections, or in the laboratory. Field roles involve survey, trapping, tagging, and long hours in variable conditions; others are laboratory or analysis-based. Much applied work supports conservation management, disease surveillance, or animal welfare decisions.
Natural sciences and research
Toxicologists study how chemicals, drugs, and other substances affect living systems, and at what exposure levels effects appear. The work supports safety assessment for medicines, chemicals, and consumer products, as well as forensic and clinical investigation. Regulatory toxicology in particular involves close work with defined testing frameworks and dossier requirements.
Natural sciences and research
Epidemiologists study patterns of disease and health in populations and what explains them. The work is largely quantitative (study design, surveillance data, and statistical analysis), and it feeds directly into public health decisions. Outbreak roles can be intense and time-pressured; surveillance and research roles are steadier.
Natural sciences and research
Statisticians design studies and analyses so that the conclusions drawn from data are actually supported by it. Applied roles sit across medicine, government, agriculture, and industry, and much of the value is in the planning stage rather than the final analysis. A recurring part of the job is explaining uncertainty to people who would prefer a single number.
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