Teaching Statistics is delighted to announce Professor Rhys C Jones as the new Editor-in-Chief for the journal. 

Rhys is a Visiting Professor of Statistical Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, based in the Q-Step centre, in the Department of Sociology. His primary research contributions are in the areas of curriculum development, randomness misconceptions in statistics, and the role of context in statistics education. Rhys’s research interests also focus on mathematical and statistical anxiety, as well as research design and methods in educational projects. He is an internationally recognised education leader with significant experience in curriculum development and curriculum theory, especially in the field of statistics education. He also sits on several statistics education committees including: the RSS Education Policy Advisory group, the RSS Teaching Section, and the NZ Statistics Association Education Committee, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. 

Rhys is very much looking forward to working with the statistics education community, and further afield, to foster the sharing of great ideas in the teaching of statistics, in whatever discipline it is being taught. He also wants to make sure there is a safe space for collaborators to work together, and to build trust to share innovative ideas with each other, as well as recognition of where they have originated. Rhys is also keen to work with and support mathematics and statistics teachers, in their professional development and consumption of statistics education journals. He also wants to work with and support teachers to develop their writing skills, leading to the publication of their own journal articles. He hopes this will help them to share and disseminate engaging and exciting activities in the teaching of statistics and data science. He also hopes this will encourage others to do the same, and collaborate with teachers more widely. 

Rhys replaces Professor Helen MacGillivray, who has been Editor-in-Chief of Teaching Statistics for 11 years. Wiley and Rhys would like to thank Helen for her steadfast commitment to the journal over this time, along with her excellent leadership, helping to further cement its position as an international flagship journal in statistics education.