We’ve been privileged to host some brilliant female speakers at the RSS over the years. For International Women's Day 2021, we've compiled a YouTube playlist that features a past president, two Chief Scientific Advisers, a National Statistician and a winner of our Barnett award – as well as sessions that pay tribute to some historical women in stats such as our very first female fellow, Florence Nightingale.
Watch the playlist on YouTube.
The playlist features:
Women in Statistics: Past Present and Future
The RSS launch event for its Women in Statistics and Data Science Special Interest Group, which featured a lecture from then RSS president Deborah Ashby. She was joined by Linda Wijlaars of UCL, Susan Lovick of Phastar, Lauren Rodgers of the University of Exeter and the Women in Mathematics Committee and Maria Skoularidou of the University of Cambridge.
Exploring the gender data gap
Featuring speakers Deirdre Appel from Open Data Watch talking about the gender data available for the measuring and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and where the gender data gaps lie; Claudia Wells from the Office for National Statistics who gave an overview of ONS’ work to address the gender data gap; and Natasha Davies on how Wales’ leading gender equality charity, Chwarae Teg, utilises gender data.
Florence Nightingale and her colleagues: Using statistics to save lives
Lynn McDonald explores Nightingale's work in analysing data from the Crimean War, peacetime British Army, nurse deaths in hospitals, maternal deaths post-childbirth, deaths in Indigenous residential schools and stressing the need for good population data on health and housing, on to evidence-based healthcare.
Ruth King: The past, present and the future of capture-recapture
Ruth King recounts the history of capture-recapture techniques for estimating hidden population sizes and the associated statistical approaches which have been applied in areas of ecology and epidemiology. From our 2020 Conference.
Kerrie Mengersen: Deriving insights from new data sources
The President's Invited lecturer at our 2020 Conference explored the diversity of new data sources such as virtual reality, thermal imagery, satellites and crowdsourcing.
Deborah Ashby: Using data to improve health from the time of Crimea to the time of Covid
The then RSS President gave an updated version of her Presidential Address to the RSS Leeds-Bradford local group.
Marian Scott: Data lakes from the data deluge
The RSS Barnett Award winner from 2019 winner gives her Barnett Lecture at the RSS Conference.
Charlotte Watts: Harnessing the power of data to drive development: A DFID erspective
The Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development gave our Campion (President's Invited) Lecture at our 2019 Conference.
Deborah Mayo: What do we learn about significnce tests from the replication crisis?
Deborah Mayo from the Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech discussed today’s problems of replication and significance tests. Recorded at our 2018 RSS Conference.
Jil Matheson: Statistics in the EU Referendum
The former UK National Statistician gave the 2016 Cathie Marsh Memorial Lecture about how important statistics became in the EU referendum.
Anne Glover: Lost in translation, Why statisticians and policymakers need to speak the same language
The former Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission gave this lecture at the 2016 RSS Conference.