Presentation champions
Presentation champions work to improve the presentation and dissemination of government statistics.
Their main responsibilities are to:
- identify, promote and share best practice and innovation in the presentation of government statistics
- identify and help address barriers to improvements in the presentation and dissemination of government statistics within their department
- attend and contribute to meetings of the presentation sub-group of the Presentation and Dissemination Committee (PDC)
All presentation champions are automatically members of the presentation sub-group of the PDC. This sub-group manages the champions and arranges events and meetings for them to participate in.
Want to be a presentation champion?
Each government department can nominate a presentation champion (or several champions) to work with the network of presentation champions across the Government Statistical Service (GSS) who meet on a regular basis.
If you would like to be a presentation champion please email: gsshelp@statistics.gov.uk
What is expected of a presentation champion?
As an active presentation champion you will support the delivery of your department’s goals for presenting and disseminating statistics and commit to delivering the following over a 12 month period:
- Organise and host at least one sharing seminar in your department or region to showcase innovation on a topic(s) of your choice.
- Participate in at least two GSS peer review meetings (sometimes called “scrums”)
- Organise at least one GSS peer review meeting – arranging a publication to review and recruiting champions (and others) to act as peer reviewers
- Review at least six GSS statistical publications and send your comments to the Best Practice and Impact division contact for the presentation champion network (see the membership list to find out who that is).
- Work with your department’s PDC member to ensure your department completes the What’s New? document on time, every quarter (you will be sent a link to an editable version of this document).
- Review the What’s New? document every quarter and proactively promote it within your department
- After the publication of the latest What’s New? document on the GSS website, contact another champion from a department whose work you are interested in to share knowledge and insight
- Attend at least three champion meetings
- Submit an agenda item or present at the quarterly champion meeting to showcase innovation or discuss a challenge etc.
- Support or lead at least one item of PDC’s or presentation sub-group’s work programme
The chair of the presentation sub-group will formally communicate these commitments to your line manager and statistical Head of Profession. This will allow greater awareness of your obligations to this group and enable wider recognition of our work.
| Acronym | Department | Surname | First name |
|---|---|---|---|
| DWP | Department for Work and Pensions | Pearce | Adam |
| HSE | Health and Safety Executive | Cleminson | Arran |
| HMRC | HM Revenue and Customs | Wilson | Neil |
| Beis | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Hill | Emma |
| OME | Office for Manpower Economics | Craggs | Anthony |
| Ofqual | Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) | Rhead | Stephen |
| Ofsted | Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) | Merrett | Alison |
| Ofsted | Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) | Griffiths | Martin |
| DfT | Department for Transport | Djouadi | Assia |
| DfT | Department for Transport | Murphy | Laura |
| DfT | Department for Transport | Freer | Chris |
| ORR | Office for Rail and Road | Miah | Paplu |
| Defra | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Chauvin | Celine |
| Defra | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Duckham | Maisie |
| Defra | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Birch | Colin |
| DHSC/NHS England | Department for Health and Social Care/NHS England | Beake | Edward |
| DHSC/NHS England | Department for Health and Social Care/NHS England | Tatrek | Roman |
| PHE | Public Health England | Jephson | David |
| PHE | Public Health England | Dunn | Sam |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics | White | Nicola |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics | McLaren | Elizabeth |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics | Ainslie | David |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics | McGarvey | Paul |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics | McSweeney | Rachel |
| WG | Welsh Government | Collins | Samantha |
| WG | Welsh Government | Curds | Matthew |
| MHCLG | Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government | Obudulu | Chukwuemeka |
| MoJ | Ministry of Justice | Hall | Philip |
| MoJ | Ministry of Justice | Atherton | Katie |
| HO | Home Office | Shepard | Fiona |
| DCMS | Department for Culture, Media and Sport | Patel | Davita |
| DIT | Department for International Trade | Colwell | Thomas |
| DfID | Department for International Development - Foreign commenwealth and development office | Cockerill | Philip |
| MoD | Ministry of Defence | Graham | Rachel |
| MoD | Ministry of Defence | Dale | Harriet |
| HMT | HM Treasury | Melbourne | Steven |
| HMT | HM Treasury | Jonathan | Dawson |
| NRS | National Records Scotland | Adams | Joseph |
| NHS ISD | NHS Scotland | Carruthers | Jade |
| Nisra | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency | Taylor | Sandra |
| Nisra | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency | Broomfield | Norma |
| FSA | Food Standards Agency | Heard | Helen |
If you would like the email address for one of the champions please get in touch with gsshelp@statistics.gov.uk
- “What’s New?” updates: these share good work happening in presentation and dissemination across the GSS.
- Presentation and dissemination resources
- Slack channel for presentation champions (#presentationchampions). You will need to sign up to the gov-stats-service workspace on slack to join this channel (if you haven’t done so already). The best way to make use of this channel is to change the channel notification settings to receive notifications for “all new messages”.