Bowie Penney, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, discusses their latest English Indices of Deprivation release, including the enhancements they've made through methodology, increased user engagement, and cross-departmental collaboration.
Learn more on Unlocking and updating deprivation insights: the IoD2025Starting my data science degree apprenticeship was one of the most important decisions of my career. I had spent more than twenty years in technical roles, from IT engineering to software development, data engineering and data analysis. Although I had trained extensively, I had no formal qualification to show the depth of my knowledge. I […]
Learn more on From Self-Taught to Distinction: Barry’s Apprenticeship JourneyAllison Littlejohn, University College London, explores considerations for the agency of statisticians as the use of Artificial Intelligence increases.
Learn more on The future of GSS is in the hands of humansHira Naveed from Defra reflects on how they applied user-centred design to improve their visualisations and tools.
Learn more on Putting users at the heart of designStephanie Howarth shared key lessons from her GSS Conference session.
Learn more on The death of Excel? How our community delivered change at Welsh GovernmentThe GSS Policy and Coordination Team reflect on their favourite moments from the 2025 conference.
Learn more on A day of connection and collaboration at the GSS ConferenceDanielle and David, UK Health Security Agency, share how they created a reproducible analytic pipeline to streamline norovirus surveillance.
Learn more on RAP in reality: automating the production of high-quality norovirus and rotavirus statisticsFollowing the publication of our HIV Official Statistics in October 2024, there was a lot of media backlash due to an increasing number of people arriving in the UK from abroad with HIV diagnoses. The language we used within the release did not help with destigmatizing this population, so we decided to embark on a […]
Learn more on Revamping HIV Official Statistics together with stakeholdersFind out more about how the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and NHS England (NHSE) are working together to understand how chronic health conditions and medical interventions affect employment and earnings.
Learn more on Exploring how personal health affects economic activityStarting a new chapter When I joined the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as a Senior Statistical Officer, I was excited but also a little daunted. I had spent years working with data in academia and the private sector, but this was a different world – one of the largest government departments in the […]
Learn more on Behind the Scenes: Coordinating the Statistical Work Programme at DWP