Society Honours and Awards
Every summer the Society holds a ceremony to award medals and prizes in recognition of outstanding contributions to the subject of statistics and statistical excellence in a number of areas.
Every learned society has a responsibility to promote the subject it represents. The Royal Statistical Society achieves this by recognising excellence through the award of medals and prizes to those who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the subject. An experienced and distinguished honours committee, chaired by the president and representing every field in which statistics is practised, considers nominations for the Society's medals and prizes.
Nomination process
Nominations are open for the 2014 awards. 6 medals and Honorary Fellowships are up for award as follows:
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Guy medal in gold
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Guy medal in silver
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Guy medal in bronze
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Chambers medal
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Howard medal
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Wood medal
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Honorary fellowship
Individual fellows, standing committees and section and local group committees may make nominations. The honours committee prefer to receive as broad a range of nominations as possible to ensure the awards are made to those who best meet the criteria.
The nomination form must be used for all awards. You are asked to check the criteria for the award carefully using the summary descriptions of all awards.
Those considering making a nomination are asked to consult the guidance notes on the nomination procedure.
The deadline for 2014 nominations is Tuesday, 1 October 2013 and submissions may be sent to honours@rss.org.uk.
Honours for 2013
Guy Medal in Gold: Sir John Kingman
Guy Medal in Silver: Brian Ripley
Guy Medal in Bronze: Piotr Fryzlewicz
Bradford Hill Medal: Paddy Farrington
Greenfield Industrial Medal: Ron Kenett
Royal Statistical Society Research Prize: Haeran Cho
The full story was announced on RSS ENews. The awards will be presented at the Society's awards ceremony to be held at its annual conference in Newcastle.
Past recipients of the Society's Honours can be seen here.
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