Political Staffer Resource Centre
Research-driven recommendations, advice and support for political advisers, their managers, and advocates for reform
The Political Staffer Resource Centre shares the recommendations generated by the research project The Human Resource Management of Political Staffers by Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment at The University of Dundee.
These recommendations were generated by asking political staffers and those working in close association with them what best practices they had experienced, observed and developed over time. They are therefore grounded in reality, or ‘doable’ when working within the constraints of politics and government.
They cover the role, recruiting and selecting, onboarding, training, cultures, wellbeing, morale, workloads and feedback, and are designed for aspiring, new, experience political staff, staffers managing other staffers, as well as politicians and civil/public servants supporting or overseeing staffers.
The Political Staffer Resource Centre is free of charge.
This research focused on how to make the human resource management of political advisers/staffers more effective by capturing best practices developed within individual political offices.
About the Researcher
Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment holds a Chair in Political Marketing and Management at the University of Dundee.
She is a research-led but practice-oriented cross-disciplinary academic focused on researching political marketing, political management and political leadership.
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