Royal Statistical Society
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Stephanie Hare on why we need a culture of technology ethics
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Hare, author of 'Technology is Not Neutral', talks to Real World Data Science about the 'wicked problem' of technology and AI ethics, and wh...
Biostatistician by design: from prisons to prions
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Biostatistician by design: from prisons to prions by Royal Statistical Society
Statistical Developments in the Calculation of Value of Information
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anna Heath is a biostatistician at SickKids Hospital in Toronto within the Child Health Evaluative Sciences (CHES) program, an assistant professor ...
PSN podcast with Richard Saldanha CStat
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Richard Saldanha is an expert in statistical machine learning and quantitative finance. He co-heads Oxquant, a management consulting business invol...
Stats+Stories: Live at RSS 2020
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Stats + Stories podcast comes to RSS Conference 2020. Join host John Bailer for 80 minutes of debate and discussion on “the statistics behind th...
Use of data and research at the World Health Organisation with Dr Maria Van Kerkhove
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove is an epidemiologist at the World Health Organisation (WHO) and technical lead for the Covid-19 pandemic. We spoke with Maria ab...
Real-time epidemiology, statistics and modelling with Professor Christl Donnelly
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Christl Donnelly, of Oxford University and Imperial College London, gave the 29th Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture on 30th June 2020 in London...
Discussion on exam grading algorithms at RSS Conference
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
RSS Chief Executive Stian Westlake chaired a short panel discussion on what is commonly termed the ‘A level exams fiasco’. When physical exams tak...
A Bayesian Analysis Of Animal Movement Data
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Wiley speaks to Colin Gillespie from Newcastle University about his modelling of sheep flocking.
An Analysis Of Patient Outcomes From Listing For A Lung Transplant
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Wiley speaks to Rachel Hogg about the work she does as a statistician at NHS Blood and Transplant, as part of the team looking into the reasons w...
Analytical Challenges Of Harmonising Diverse Datasets
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Rogers interviews Amy-Jayne McKnight to discuss the challenges associated with genomic data. We consider how data is captured, processed, and then...
Tweet All About It! The Rise Of #Stats Twitter
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), talks to Darren Dahly (University College Cork) and Maarten van Smeden (Leids Uni...
The Future Of Statistics And Statistics Education
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), interviews John MacInnes (http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/macinnes_john),...
The Social Metrics Commission's New Measure Of Poverty For The UK
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Wiley interviews Guy Miscampbell, technical lead at the Social Metrics Commission, on the innovations and methodology behind the Commission’s n...
Synthetic Data- A Real Solution To The Privacy Problem
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), interviews James Tucker, head of the Quality Centre and Methodology Advisory Serv...
Statistics To Ensure Improved Welfare For Ethnic Minorities
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Wiley interviews Kevin Johanson, from the Expert Group on Sámi Statistics based in Norway, on how the group is working on developing statistics ...
Predictive Maintenance - Algorithms And Engineers
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Wiley interviews David Smallbone, from the RSS Business & Industrial Section on what exactly is predictive maintenance and the challenges and opp...
Predicting And Preparing For Future Sea Level Rise
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), interviews Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir (https://www.nr.no/~thordis/), chief resear...
Neighbourhood Change 1971 - 2011
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How have neighbourhoods changed over the past few decades? Sara McDonnell spoke to Professor Chris Lloyd of Queen’s University Belfast about his res...
Minimising Food Waste By Adapting Growing Programmes To The Weather
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can statistics make your salad taste better? Sara McDonnell spoke to Iain Flint of G’s Growers about the IceCAM project, which helps to minimise foo...
In Sport, How Do We Decide Whos Best
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), interviews Lancaster University’s Harry Spearing (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/~...
Bridging Public Understanding Of Health And Data Sharing
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Wiley interviews Debbie Keatley, from use MY data about the group’s aims and the benefits of sharing health data to improve patient outcomes. ...
Assessing Spaed Rankings With Application To Predicting The Premier League
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sara McDonnell talked to Professor David Firth of the University of Warwick about ‘spaed rankings’ and how they have been performing when predicti...
Statistics To Ensure Improved Welfare For Ethnic Minorities
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Wiley interviews Kevin Johanson, from the Expert Group on Sámi Statistics based in Norway, on how the group is working on developing statistics ...
Professor Deborah Ashby - RSS President's Address
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Deborah Ashby gave her RSS President's Address on 25th June 2019 in London. We caught up with Deborah to talk about her statistical backgrou...
Martin Bland
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Bland, Emeritus Professor of Health Statistics from the University of York, shares stories from his statistical journey and friendship with the...
Emerging Threats
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Emerging Threats by Royal Statistical Society