RSS statistical ambassadors

The RSS statistical ambassadors programme provides training and support to early-career professional statisticians to help them improve their skills and confidence in talking about statistics in public – to the media, schools and wider public. To date, they have given media interviews, created and participated in public events, helped journalists and press officers understand probability, data analytics and other statistical issues, written popular articles, and much more.

For further information on the programme, to contact the ambassadors and for media queries, please email our Head of communications.
 

• First cohort

  Twelve statistical ambassadors were selected for the first cohort from thirty-two high calibre applications in October 2014. They received two days' training and telephone group mentoring sessions, with experts including David Spiegelhalter, Timandra Harkness, Lucie Green, Sujata Kundu, Kevin McConway, Dorothy Bishop and Nicola Osborne.

  Andrew James Williams, University of Exeter Medical School
  David Beckett, Office for National Statistics
  Deirdre Toher, University of the West of England 
  Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  Hugo Pedder, National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health
  Ilaria Prosdocimi, University of Bath 
  Jamie Sergeant, University of Manchester 
  Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford 
  Jonathan Hope, Health and Social Care Information Centre 
  Rob Mastrodomenico, Global Sports Statistics 
  Robert Cuffe, BBC News

  Mike Holmes was a statistical ambassador from October 2014 until March 2016. He remains active within the Society.

• Second cohort

  The second cohort of ten statistical ambassadors were selected in April 2016 from twenty-six high calibre applications. They received two days of training and worked with first cohort to develop their skills and reach out to the wider public and media.

  Aoibheann Brady, University of Bath
  Liam Brierley, Coventry University 
  Susan Connolly, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
  Rhian Davies, Arctic Shores 
  Penelope Donohue, Forest Research 
  Michael Dunne-Willows, Newcastle University 
  Todd K. Hartman, University of Sheffield 
  Johanna Hutchinson, The Pensions Regulator 
  Liberty Vittert, University of Glasgow 
  Simon R. White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge

• Third cohort

  Norma Bargary, University of Limerick
  Catey Bunce, King’s College London
  Chloe Gibbs, Office for National Statistics
  David Hodge, University of Nottingham 
  Joy Leahy, Trinity College Dublin 
  Darren Macey, University of Cambridge Mathematics 
  Anthony Masters, Nationwide Building Society 
  Brooks Paige, Alan Turing Institute & University of Cambridge 
  Lucy Teece, Keele University 
  Graham Wheeler, University College