Prof Julie Scott Jones A Data…. What? When we launched the Manchester Metropolitan University Q-Step centre in 2013, we knew that to deliver our ambitious plans for upskilling undergrads in quants meant tackling the perennial issue of ‘I don’t like numbers’ / ‘I’m not good with numbers’. It is widely acknowledged (see https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/resources/tt_maths_sociology.pdf ) that how students feel about numbers can be a barrier to learning quants. This is a two-headed beast of tackling feelings about numbers whilst building confidence with quants work. We did many things to address both issues (see https://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ16(1)_Jones.pdf ) but one core element we wanted to embed was the use of peer-assisted-learning. We had observed over the (pre-Q-Step) years that often the most able students in lab would offer informal peer support; this collective peer learning seemed to work. Our plan was to harness this into a formal ...