by Susan Acland-Hood and Simon Blake | Jun 25, 2025 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Fourth Edition
Susan Acland-Hood and Simon Blake explain how Covid prompted a new approach to tackling absence rates in schools in England “It was identifying the leaves that helped us see the wood for the trees,” says Beth Gibson, assistant principal of the Queen Elizabeth Academy,... 
by Tim Dickson | Apr 9, 2025 | Articles, Interviews, Third Edition
Doing things differently with data Over the last three months the hue and cry around the size of the state, new ways of working, the need for more specialists and buzzwords like ‘performance’ and ‘accountability’ have reached a new crescendo. As they struggle to cope... 
by Ian Diamond | Mar 24, 2025 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Third Edition
Ian Diamond explains why UK policymakers need to understand the significance of recent trends The components of population growth have been changing faster than at any time in my 45 years of working on population data. For example, people’s expectations of how... 
by Doug Gurr | Jan 22, 2025 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Third Edition
Doug Gurr, newly appointed interim Chair of the UK’s Competition watchdog and Director of the Natural History Museum, warns that the UK is missing out on the fruits of scientific research Deep in the bowels of the Natural History Museum (NHM) in South... 
by James Ancell | Nov 26, 2024 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Policy Insights, Second Edition
James Ancell, Head of Futures and Foresight, Joint Data and Analysis Centre, offers practical steps for civil servants to focus more on the longer term My partner and I are planning a wedding. Being an analyst, I began with a spreadsheet of costs, possible...
