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 extensive talent across the Society and the discipline.
We are pleased to announce that we have awarded five medals and prizes in 2025 to our members who have immense contributions to both the discipline and the community. We have also awarded three honorary fellowships to those working in related fields who have acted as champions of statistics and data science. Read more about them via the individual award pages.
Guy Medal Silver – Professor Richard Samworth
Guy Medal Bronze - Professor Jenny Wadsworth
The Barnett Award - Professor Claire Miller
Greenfield Medal - Professor Nicky Best
David Cox Research Prize - Dr Kartik Waghmare
Honorary Fellowships – Professor Marion Oswald MBE, Professor Annette Southgate, Fiona Fox
Our Honours Committee, chaired by our president, considers the nominations for our medals and prizes according to a set criteria. To ensure greater inclusivity for our honours programme, we have piloted a search committee to seek out and nominate candidates to ensure a diverse pool of nominations.
We will host an award ceremony to celebrate our winners at our annual conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday 3 September 2025.
A call out for nominations for our 2026 honours will be launched in May.
2025 Honours recipients full citations
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
Established in memory of Vic Barnett, recognising outstanding contributions to the field of environmental statistics
Awarded to individuals of great eminence working in fields related to statistics who are not necessarily or primarily members of the statistical profession
Awarded to a fellow of the Society near the beginning of their research career for an outstanding published contribution to statistical theory or application
Awarded to a fellow for outstanding or influential contributions to medical statistics
Awarded to those who have contributed to the field of social statistics
Recognising contributions of statistical science to all aspects of manufacturing industry
Established in memory of the statistician Frances Wood OBE (1883–1919), recognising contributions to economic or social statistics
Awarded to a fellow who has not held or been elected to the office of President, for outstanding services to the Society
Awarded for outstanding contributions to the development or communication of official statistics
Created to bring together statisticians with other scientists through workshops in emerging interdisciplinary areas