I was recommended to this department by my line manager at the Treasurer's Department. He was aware that the CEM Centre are often in need of numerate people and hoped that I might prove useful. There were at this time no permanent vacancies but a variety of work needed doing and I was offered temporary work while there was work available.

In the time I have been at the CEM Centre, my work has included:

• Performing a literature review of more than a hundred academic papers in the fields of education, sociology, criminology and psychology;
• Organised and administered a short course in Performance Monitoring for Scottish schools;
• Organised the set-up of a large-scale project to monitor attitudes and behaviour etc. of all pupils between reception and year eleven in an education authority;
• Conducted analysis into the efficacy of CEM Centre advertisments;
• Performed telephone support to schools taking part in projects;
• Sundry other work as required.

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