Pamela Duncan

Pamela Duncan is the former editor of the Guardian’s Data Projects team, an occasional award-winning journalist (#humblebrag) and a self-confessed data nerd. She is at her happiest (professionally at least) when poring over spreadsheets and using her coding skills – usually a combination of scraping, regex and pandas/Python – to build and analyse datasets to produce high quality and exclusive data stories.

She has worked on a number of international collaborations including the Pandora Papers, Russian Asset Tracker and The Uber Files, and was a contributor to Green to Grey: How Europe Is Squandering the Little Nature It Has Left, a cross-border investigation that received a 2026 Sigma Award — one of the most prestigious international recognitions in data journalism. She is currently shortlisted for Data Journalist of the Year for the UK Press Awards and a European Press Prize for an investigation carried out with a team of brilliant colleagues, exposing how a network of public Facebook groups help incubate far-right ideas in the UK.

Pamela is a very popular data journalism trainer at the #CIJSummer Conference despite being an insufferable data evangelist who forces her love of data upon others. She is a lecturer in journalism and Programme Director for the MA in Journalism at the University of Galway having previously taught as a visiting lecturer in data journalism at City, University of London. She has trained journalists at other prestigious conferences including DataHarvest, GIJC and NICAR. She has also written a bespoke data curriculum to teach journalists in developing countries.