Stefan is the Director and Head of Research at OCSI, where he leads the Research Team and co-ordinates our consultancy work.
Stefan previously worked as a researcher at Oxford University’s Social Disadvantage Research Centre and was part of the team that produced the original English Indices of Deprivation in 2000.
Stefan has been working at OCSI for over 20 years now, contributing to the development of Local Insight as a product, and establishing OCSI as a leading figure in the UK data landscape.
University of Sussex – BA in International Relations
University of Sussex – MA in Global Political Economy
Stefan has 25 years’ experience using data and analysis to improve public and community services. Stefan joined OCSI in 2004 after completing an MA in Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, and a research post in the Oxford University Social Disadvantage Research Centre.
He has a passion for facts and figures and a wide experience of using and analysing administrative data for area-based deprivation projects.
Stefan is the project lead (Principal Investigator) on the 2025 update of the Indices of Deprivation and was lead on the 2019 Indices of Deprivation project. He has worked in collaboration with more than 100 national, local, and regional government and voluntary organisations.
Stefan Noble led the DLUHC-commissioned Data4nr service (Data for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration), signposting users to local area open data and information to underpin funding bids, needs assessments, and impact evaluation. The Data4nr service provided all content for the initial launch of the government’s open data platform, Data.gov.uk. Statistics from this service have also been used to identify demand for particular datasets from local users.