Sifting and judging the AiG Awards
Nominations for the 6th AiG Awards are now open. You can nominate yourself or a colleague for an award by completing the AiG Awards nomination form. The nominations period closes at 23:55 on Friday 24 October 2025.
Develop your skills, learn about some of the most interesting analysis work taking place across government, and support the Analysis Function by volunteering to help with sifting or judging nominations for the Analysis in Government (AiG) Awards.
Sifting
The AiG Awards could not happen without sifters, who play an incredibly important role in the process of recognising and celebrating excellence in government analysis. Sifting is a great way to get an insider’s view on the type and range of government analysis work taking place today.
Any member of the Analysis Function can apply to be a sifter. We are keen to have representation from across the Analysis Function, so welcome analysts from all departments and professions, at any stage of their career.
Sifting nominations for awards is very similar to sifting applications for vacancies, so recruitment experience may be useful.
Time commitments
Sifting will take place in mid-November. It should only take a couple of hours to sift through your assigned nominations. Each sifter will review around 20 nominations from only one or two award categories. The exact number of nominations assigned to each sifter may vary, depending on the number of nominations and sifters.
Sifters will have just over a week to review nominations and return their scores and comments.
Reviewing nominations
All nominations are reviewed by multiple sifters. The with results will be collated and independently checked to establish a shortlist of around six nominations per category.
All nominations will be anonymised, with team and individual names removed. No sifter will be asked to review a nomination from their own department.
More detailed information and guidance will be supplied directly to sifters by the Analysis Function Central Team. We will hold a Microsoft Teams meeting session for sifters to attend and ask any questions about the process.
Judging
The Analysis in Government Awards (AiG Awards) help to make sure that the very best in government analysis is recognised and celebrated. It is important that we have a judging panel who are both expert and experienced analysts.
We welcome senior leaders working in analysis at Grade 6 and above join our judging panel. We are keen to have representation from across the Analysis Function, so welcome senior analysts from all departments and professions.
Time commitments
Judging will take place in early December. It should only take a couple of hours to review your assigned nominations and you will have around two working weeks to return your scores and comments.
Reviewing nominations
Our sifters will create a shortlist of around six nominations for each category. Each judge will review a total of around 12 shortlisted nominations from two award categories.
Judges will decide on a winner, a runner-up, and up to two highly commended nominations in each of our six award categories. You will not need to attend a group panel as judging takes place at an individual level.
All nominations are reviewed by multiple judges, with results collated and independently checked.
All nominations will be anonymised, with team and individual names removed. No judge will be asked to review a nomination from their own department.