Graduate Research Fellow

Location: London, minimum four days per week onsite across Herne Hill and Carter Lane, with travel to other Group offices as required

Contract: 18-month fixed-term Group Transformation Fellowship

At Mark Allen, we create specialist content, events, data and insight for professional communities across sectors that matter.

As AI Fellow
, you will be a full member of our four-person AI Implementation Pod, a multidisciplinary, agile team at the centre of Mark Allen Group, supporting our wider Group transformation programme.

This is a high-potential graduate and very early-career opportunity, designed to give you 18 months of intensive,
hands‑on
experience in AI implementation, strategy, organisational transformation, product and innovation, data and senior decision‑making. You will contribute to live transformation activity from the outset, working with colleagues across the business and external specialist partners.

Reporting to the AI Programme & Adoption Manager, you will work alongside the AI Strategic Implementation Lead and AI Technical Implementation Lead
, gaining exposure to how business opportunities are identified, developed and implemented. The Pod works closely with managing directors, functional leaders and our Development and Data teams to deliver practical change across the Group.

You do not need to arrive as an AI expert, and we are less interested in a particular degree subject than in your potential to learn quickly, think critically and make a meaningful contribution.

This is not a role where you will simply observe from the sidelines. You will contribute to real transformation work, develop your research, analytical and communication skills, and take progressively greater ownership of substantive projects as your capability develops.

• Track relevant developments in AI models, tools, agents and business applications.
• Research how organisations are using AI, automation and new ways of working to improve processes, products and business performance, particularly across media and publishing.
• Turn your research into concise, useful summaries for the AI Implementation Pod and wider business.
• Identify high-quality external learning, research, tools and case studies.
• Help the team stay informed about important regulatory and market developments.

• Support discipline‑level discovery and implementation activity across the Group.
• Help map and document workflows and potential use cases.
• Support pilots, tool testing and experimentation.
• Assist with workshops, working sessions and wider programme activity.
• Maintain clear documentation of actions, decisions and lessons.
• Take ownership of defined work streams as your experience and capability develop.

• Work with the AI Programme & Adoption Manager to curate the Group AI curriculum.
• Help research, write and curate engaging internal content that keeps colleagues informed about relevant AI developments, practical applications and lessons from across the Group.
• Help turn external learning into practical Mark Allen guidance and resources.
• Develop case studies, practical guides, examples and internal resources.
• Capture good practice and lessons from across the business so learning is shared rather than lost.
• Support the AI Ambassador community with materials and communications.

• Test new tools and capabilities within approved environments.
• Document their strengths, weaknesses, potential use cases and limitations.
• Support structured comparisons between different platforms and approaches.
• Help identify emerging capabilities that could create value for the business.

• Support transformation work where AI intersects with…