Book or contact a current William Guy Lecturer 2025-26

We invite schools to contact the current lecturers to request in-person visits or live sessions online.  

We also encourage schools to contact the lecturers with questions that students may have about the talks, to enable to enable interactive dialogue and stimulate engagement. 

We hope that the William Guy Lecturer talks will be a useful and inspiring resource for a broad and diverse range of schools, illustrating the relevant real-world applications of statistics and data science. 
 
Please use the links below to contact the relevant William Guy Lecturer. If you would like to get in contact with a previous William Guy Lecturer, please email policy@rss.org.uk.
 
Rebecca Duke, William Guy Lecturer for ages 5–11 – Little Bo-Peep has lost her mother duck – what nursery rhymes teach us about AI.​  

Jennifer Hall, William Guy Lecturer for ages 11–16 – From data to decisions: how AI & stats solve real-world problems.  

Arthur Turrell, William Guy Lecturer for age 16+ – Economic statistics and stupidly smart AI.