This event took place on the 19 th September, 2025 at the University of Warwick and was attended by 25 people. The event was jointly organised by the BIR and NABES (a UK network of statisticians working in the Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences). Attendees consisted of both...
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor C David Kemp. Professor C David Kemp, who was Secretary of the British Region of the IBS from1961 to 1970 and was Regional President for 1977-78, died on 26th October at the age of 98. After National Service, David...
The British and Irish Region would like to invite BIR members (and friends and colleagues!) to an afternoon celebrating young Biometricians, including a plenary presentation by the 2025 winner of the Young Biometrician Award. This afternoon event will be preceded by the 2025 Region...
12-02-2025 | 13:15 - 17:00 BST London
It is with great pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2025 Young Biometrician Award is Dr Ioannis Rotous for his paper "A Pólya Tree modelling framework for batch-mark data". This paper presents a novel Bayesian nonparametric framework for analysing batch-mark data, where animals...
Report – Young-ISA Webinar Joint with the BIR Committee on Statistical Ecology Gabriel Rodrigues Palma The online event took place on Thursday, April 10th, 2025, as a collaboration between the Young Irish Statistical Association (Young-ISA) and the British and Irish Region (BIR)...
The Art of Statistical Consultancy including Presidential Address Kirsty Hassall The afternoon event took place on 3rd December, 2024 in the lovely de Hardy room of the London Mathematical Society building in Russell Square. We had a hybrid setup which had a few hitches for which I can...
The British and Irish Region would like to invite BIR members (and friends and colleagues!) to an afternoon celebrating Statistical Consultancy, including the 2024 Presidential Address and preceded by the 2024 Region AGM, on 3rd December 2024, at De Morgan House in London. Registration is now...
12-03-2024 | 12:45 - 16:30 UTC London
21 st Armitage Workshop and Lecture This year’s workshop will be a particularly special occasion as it will be dedicated to the work and achievements of Professor Peter Armitage CBE. There will be sessions on sequential trials and multi-stage theory of carcinogenesis which Peter was...
11-12-2024 | 09:20 - 17:00 UTC
We are deeply saddened to learn that Prof. Peter Armitage – former President and Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society – died last week, aged 99 years. We remember Peter for the depth and breadth of his statistical insight, the kindness and generosity of his dealings with...
2023 Young Biometrician Award We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2023 Young Biometrician Award is Dr Oliver Crook , a Florence Nightingale Fellow (Senior Research Associate) in the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, for his paper “Semi-Supervised Nonparametric...
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