The Mardia Prize
The Mardia Prize was founded by RSS fellow Kanti Mardia to encourage cutting-edge interdisciplinary work by bringing together statistics with other science communities through workshops in emerging interdisciplinary areas. The annual prize of £3,000-4,000 is made available to support workshops that bring statisticians together with other scientific communities and to maintain a sustained focus.
Applications are now open for the 8th Mardia Prize to be awarded in 2025, and will close on 31 October 2024.
Information for applicants
The Society welcomes proposals for workshops to be run over a two-year period, starting during 2025. Funding of £3,000–£4,000 per year will be made available to support these workshops. The events/workshops should be designed to bring statisticians together with other scientific communities and to maintain a sustained focus. We envisage that the funding would be used to support one workshop per year, but more extensive workshop plans that use other funding as leverage will also be considered.
Applications are especially welcomed from researchers in the early stages of their career, although applications or involvement from those with more experience and wider contacts are also welcome.
Applicants should consider carefully how to foster genuine interaction between communities, for example by scheduling interactive sessions within the workshops, or by setting up online networks to encourage ongoing dialogue. There should be some record of the proceedings of the programmes, which could be short online papers rather than just presenters’ slides. At the end of the work, the organisers should provide a brief report to the Society, demonstrating the outcomes of the initiative.
To apply, please download and complete the Mardia Prize application form and send it to honours@rss.org.uk by Friday 31 October 2024.
2024 recipient: Dr Emanuele Giorgi
The winning proposal came from Dr Emanuele Giorgi from Lancaster University. Emanuele plans to hold a series of workshops focused on the application of geostatistical methods to inform policy decisions on the control and elimination neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
2022 recipient: Jane Hutton
The winning proposal came from Professor Jane Hutton, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. Professor Jane Hutton plans to hold a series of interdisciplinary workshops on Statistics and the Law.
Read more about the 2022 winner.