This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Statisticians as leaders
Category: Career development for applied statisticians
Location: Webinar | Date: 7 March 2023
Programme
Statisticians as Leaders
NIHR Statistics Group: Career Development Section
Tuesday 7th March 2023 9:30-11:45
The NIHR Statistics Group Career Development Section invite you to attend a webinar “Statisticians as Leaders” on Tuesday 7th March 2023 9:30-11:45.
This webinar is aimed at all statisticians reflecting on their current and future roles in leadership. The webinar will have 2 sessions
- Statisticians as Leaders (9:30 to 10:40)
Two speakers will present short talks on their statistical leadership experiences and professional pathways including: what led them to take more roles of statistical leadership in their work, types of roles and tips from their experience of how to be effective in those roles as a statistician.
- Professor Amy Berrington (Team Leader in Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research)
- Professor Sheila M Bird (University of Edinburgh, former programme leader at MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
- Networking opportunity: Growing your statistical network (10:50 to 11:45)
Following feedback from our workshop on building your statistical network at the NIHR Annual conference in Sheffield 2022, we will be running a “speed networking” event for attendees to meet new colleagues.
This event will be held on Zoom. Please register for this event at https://forms.office.com/e/m86JYyAjec
This event is free of charge, please register by 6pm on Sunday 5th March. A recording of the first part of the webinar (speakers plus speaker Q & A) will be made available after the event.
For further information please contact Dr Sam Leary (S.D.Leary@bristol.ac.uk)
________________________________________________________________________
9:30-9:40 Meeting introduction (Dr Barbara Torlinska, University of Birmingham)
Session 1: Statisticians as Leaders
9:40-10:10 Professor Amy Berrington (Team Leader in Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research)
10:10-10:40 Hons Professor Shelia Bird (University of Edinburgh, former programme leader at MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
10:40-10:50 Break (10 mins)
Session 2: Networking opportunity: Growing your statistical network
10:50-11:05 Introduction: Professor Sue Mallett (UCL Centre for Medical Imaging)
11:05-11:35 Networking exercise (3 x 6 min “speed networking”)
11:35-11:45 Wrap up with Q & A: Professor Sue Mallett
11:45 Close