Funded by the RSS Mardia Prize 2025, Dr. Eleni Elia, will be hosting a launch event for her workshop series, designed to empower participants (NGOs, practitioners, researchers) and enhance their statistical skills, connect peers from migration, refugee, humanities, and social sciences with statistics experts, and build a vibrant, collaborative community for ongoing innovation and support.
The launch event features dynamic lightning presentations over lunch, offering fast-paced opportunities to share insights and spark new connections.
Date: 29th Oct
Time: 12pm-1:30pm
Location: NHHB 1.15
Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Tentative agenda
Welcome and Introduction
Lightning talks
1. Migration Statistics: Policy and Practice
Speaker: Jon Simmons, Head of Immigration System Statistics and Refugee Analysis and Insight at UK Home Office, and Home Office Chief Statistician
2. Migration Data and Research at COMPAS
Speaker: Prof Carlos Vargas-Silva, Director, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and Professor of Migration Studies, University of Oxford
3. The need for Statistical Evidence to Support Policy Advocacy at REUK
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Birtwell, Research and Policy Manager, Refugee Education UK (REUK)
4. Young Statisticians in Migration Research
Speaker: Teresa Lee, Chair, Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Young Statisticians Section
5. Analytics for Modern Slavery Research
Speaker: Charlotte Norridge, Statistician and PhD Student in Applied Mathematics, University of Birmingham
6. From Data to Publication: Reproducible Statistical Workflows
Speaker: Dr Joe Corneli, Open Research Project Manager, Oxford Brookes University
7. Interdisciplinary Approaches – Where Literature Meets Data: Insights from T.S. Eliot
Speaker: Dr Eric White, Reader in American Literature, Oxford Brookes University
Creative Reflection Session
Facilitator: Sally Thomas, Art Therapist, Specialist Mentor, and PhD Researcher
A hands-on exploration of personal perspectives on statistics and interdisciplinarity through images and brief reflections.
Closing Remarks and Networking
If you are interested in attending, please book your place here.