We have developed several partnerships with schools, colleges and organisations in South Wales to develop and teach a QCF level 3 award in social analytics as well as run events to engage school and college students in the subject.

Some of the organistions we have worked with include:

• Agored Cymru (AC)
• Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE)
• Welsh Joint Educational Consortium (WJEC).

The schools and colleges that we have worked with include:

• Cardiff and the Vale College
• College Cymoedd
• Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School
• Mary Immaculate High School
• St David’s Sixth Form College
• Ysgol Abersychan.

Engagement events

We have run a number of events to engage teachers and students from schools across South Wales:

• Welsh Baccalaureate Conference 2016: The Individual Project
• ESRC Festival of Social Science - a world full of data
• Welsh Baccalaureate Conference 2015
• ESRC Festival of Social Science - why quantitative methods?
• Launch of the QCF Level 3 pilot scheme in social analytics
• Summer data School 2014
• Higher Education lecturer conference: Lies, damned lies and statistics
• Further Education teacher conference: Statistical literacy