Guy Medals
Guy Medals are 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.
Guy Medal in Gold
The Guy Medal in Gold is a ‘lifetime achievement’ award given to a fellow of the Society judged to have merited distinction by innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics.
2024 recipient: Peter Diggle
Peter has contributed both groundbreaking methodological work in spatial and longitudinal statistics as well as impactful applied work over a sustained period of close to fifty years.
2022 recipient: Nancy Reid
For pioneering work on higher-order approximate inference which provides a foundational basis for optimal information extraction from data, and has wide-ranging impact on the practice of data analysis.
The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded every two years and will next be awarded in 2026.*
*If in any biennial year a suitable candidate is not nominated, then an award may be made the following year.
Guy Medal in Silver
The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to a fellow of the Society in respect of a paper or papers of special merit communicated to the Society at its discussion meetings. Other contributions to statistics may also be considered.
2025 recipient: Richard Samworth
Richard has made outstanding contributions to the development of methodology and theory for shape-constrained inference random ensemble classification, data-perturbation techniques, and changepoint estimation. His discussion paper `Maximum likelihood estimation of a multi-dimensional log-concave density' became a landmark providing methodology, elegant theory and efficient computation in shape constrained inference.
2024 recipient: Jonathan Tawn
With a stellar publication career, Jonathan has made numerous pioneering contributions to the statistics of extremes and their profound influence on science and society. He has also shown an exceptional commitment to the training of early-career young researchers.
The Guy Medal Silver is awarded every year and will next be awarded in 2026.
The Guy Medal in Silver, the Bradford Hill Medal and the Howard Medal are intended for achievements of similar standards, subject to the different descriptions and requirements of the awards. The Honours Committee has the freedom to consider nominees for one of these medals for either of the other two if they satisfy the necessary specific criteria.
Guy Medal in Bronze
The Guy Medal in Bronze is awarded to a fellow of the Society in respect of excellent work presented to any conference or meeting run by the Society or published in any of the Society’s journals.
2025 recipient: Jenny Wadsworth
Jenny's innovative modelling and practical methodology has helped improve the understanding of rare events, which has improved understanding of key societal issues such as climate change. She has made contributions to the analysis of multivariate and spatial extremes.
2024 recipient: Chris Oates
Chris has made outstanding highly significant contributions to computational statistics. His research has led to substantial improvements in the efficiencies of Bayesian Monte Carlo methods, which has impacted methodological and applied work in statistics and machine learning.
Candidates nominated for the Guy Medal in Bronze and the Wood Medal may be considered for the other medal, provided they satisfy the necessary specific criteria.
The Guy Medal Bronze is awarded every year and will next be awarded in 2026.