Analysis and synthesis

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• show an awareness of the need for careful analysis of research data to produce clear findings

2. Working

You can:

• understand how to apply basic techniques for the analysis of research data and synthesis of findings
• effectively involve your team in analysis and synthesis
• present clear findings that colleagues can understand and use

3. Practitioner

You can:

• understand and help teams to apply a range of methods to analyse research data and synthesise findings
• effectively engage sceptical colleagues in analysis and synthesis
• advise on the choice and application of techniques, and can critique colleagues’ findings to assure best practice

4. Expert

You can:

• help an organisation to adopt a wide range of analysis and synthesis techniques, and to continually assure, improve and innovate their practices to generate clear and valuable findings

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• synthesise information (close match)
• conduct qualitative research (narrow match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

Role levels that expect this skill