This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
Last March, schools and colleges across the UK were closed and the qualification regulators (Ofqual, Qualification Wales, SQA and CCEA) were directed by the respective governments of England, Wales, Scotland…
This is a guest blog from Scott Heald following the launch of our new report: Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP): Overcoming barriers to adoption.
As part of our work on statistical leadership, we are hosting a series of guest blogs. This blog is from Will Moy, Chief Executive of Full Fact.
26 February 2021
As a communications professional, I use insights and ideas to implement and deliver impactful communications. Using statistics is a great way to use evidence and explain complicated information, but comms…
12 February 2021
Ok so that’s not quite true. I’ve been working with a focus on population and society statistics for the past three years here at the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)…
9 February 2021
In 2020 we assessed estimates of station usage produced by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and designated them as National Statistics in December. In this blog, Lyndsey Melbourne,…
3 February 2021
How data-literate do Senior Leaders in Government need to be? There was a time when it would be inconceivable to imagine senior Government Ministers and officials addressing the nation accompanied…
25 January 2021
It’s roughly a year ago that I gave evidence to the House of Lords Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee. A lot has happened in a year. I did things at…
22 January 2021
Every day we see figures for number of COVID-19 deaths in the UK quoted in the media, but what do these mean, and which figures should we pay most attention…
15 January 2021
2020 was a year in which statistics and data were at the centre of public life. We became a nation of armchair epidemiologists. There’s no sign that this will change…
4 January 2021
Do statistics provide a sort of ground truth, anchoring our perceptions of the world? Last year I was invited to participate in a conference on digital innovation in mental health,…
18 December 2020
This year I’ve written 9 blogs, ranging from an exploration of data gaps to a celebration of the armchair epidemiologists. I was thinking of making it to double figures, setting…
16 December 2020
Effie Roberts and Isabel Ralphs joined our team as placement students in September this year. Difficult as this year has been, both of them have used the challenges to their…