Political Scientist

Specialisations: Political Science Researcher, Political Analyst

• Consulting and comparing primary sources, such as original or contemporary records of past events, and secondary sources such as archaeological or anthropological findings;
• Developing theories, models and methods to interpret and describe the nature of human experience and historical and political events and behaviour;
• Preparing scholarly papers and reports
• Extracting relevant material, checking its authenticity, and researching into and describing the history of a particular period, country or region, or a particular facet for example economic, social or political of its history
• Presenting findings and conclusions for publication or use by government, political parties or other organizations and interested persons
• Researching, mostly by reasoning, into the general causes, principles and meanings of the world, human actions, experience and existence, and interpreting and developing philosophical concepts and theories
• Conducting research in such fields as political philosophy, or past and present theory and practice of political systems, institutions or behaviour
• Observing contemporary political institutions and opinions, collecting data on them from various sources, including interviews with government and political party officials and other relevant persons