Guy Weir

Guy is a quantitative researcher/data analyst with extensive experience delivering research and insight within government, academic, policy and advocacy contexts. He leads our data insights team at WPI overseeing work including London’s Poverty Profile, and the Health Foundation’s Evidence Hub. An accredited ONS researcher, he is fluent in the statistical programming language R. Before WPI Economics, Guy was Principal Statistician in the Policy Research team at Which?, and prior to that covered issues such as the labour market, deprivation, neighbourhood regeneration, and offending in his ten years working in Government for Home Office, ONS, and DCLG. In between, he undertook a MSc in the Cognitive Psychology of Music with his research published in Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain.