Education
Before my degree I had no experience in data and coding. I studied at Queen’s University Belfast and graduated with a First Class Honours in BSc Politics with Quantitative Methods.
In hindsight, adding quantitative methods in my second year was beneficial when applying to be a statistician, as it provided me with experience in SPSS and STATA which allowed me to easily pick up on other coding languages in work such as SQL and R.
Year joined NISRA
I joined NISRA as an assistant Statistician on the 18th of March 2025.
Career Progression
I see career progression not just as moving upwards, but also moving across to different areas to build a broader set of skills.
What a typical day involves in Population Statistics
- Varies depending on requests and updates on processing data
- Using SQL and Excel to run Population estimates
- Quality Assurance
- Acquiring new data from
- Uploading to Data Portal
- Publishing publications
What software do you use
- SQL
- R
- Excel