RSS Honours - Celebrating the work of RSS fellows


Honours Committee members
Chair: Andy Garrett (President)
 (immediate past President)
Peter Buhlmann
Roma Chappell
Tricia Dodd
David Firth
Scott Heald
Janine Illian
Max Parmar
Fiona Steele

 

Through our medals and prizes, we want to celebrate the breadth of talent throughout the Society and the discipline.

We are pleased to have now opened the RSS Honours award for 2025. Our Honours celebrate individuals who have made outstanding contributions to statistics and honour their achievements. The winners will be presented at the awards ceremony at the annual RSS conference.  

Our Honours Committee, chaired by our president, would like to ensure we received a diverse set of nominations that ranges from all backgrounds ages, ethnicity and more to ensure the process is as inclusive as possible. 

To ensure greater inclusivity for our honours programme, we will form search committee to seek out and nominate candidates to ensure a diverse pool of nominations.  

The deadline for nominations is Thursday 31 October 2024.  

The following awards are open for nominations: 
Guy Medal Silver 
Guy Medal Bronze 
The Barnett Award 
Greenfield Medal  
David Cox Research Prize 
Honorary Fellowship 

Nomination forms can be found on the relevant award pages.  

The 2024 Honours recipients
 

Guy Medals

Named after William Augustus Guy, the British medical statistician. The Bronze and Silver medals are awarded annually and the Gold medal is awarded every two years

The Barnett Award

Established in memory of Vic Barnett, recognising outstanding contributions to the field of environmental statistics

Honorary Fellowship

Awarded to individuals of great eminence working in fields related to statistics who are not necessarily or primarily members of the statistical profession

David Cox Research Prize

Awarded to a fellow of the Society near the beginning of their research career for an outstanding published contribution to statistical theory or application

Bradford Hill Medal

Awarded to a fellow for outstanding or influential contributions to medical statistics

Howard Medal

Awarded to those who have contributed to the field of social statistics

Greenfield Industrial Medal

Recognising contributions of statistical science to all aspects of manufacturing industry

Wood Medal

Established in memory of the statistician Frances Wood OBE (1883–1919), recognising contributions to economic or social statistics

Chambers Medal

Awarded to a fellow who has not held or been elected to the office of President, for outstanding services to the Society

West Medal

Awarded for outstanding contributions to the development or communication of official statistics

Mardia Prize

Created to bring together statisticians with other scientists through workshops in emerging interdisciplinary areas