The British and Irish Region held a meeting at King’s College London on 23 April 2026. Marking the Centenary of RA Fisher’s landmark paper “The Arrangement of Field Experiments”, the meeting focussed on the design of experiments in modern biometrics. Fisher (1926) introduced, at least in outline...
The Annual Young-ISA Webinar ran from 12:00 until 14:30 on April 15th 2026 and focused on “The Role of Statisticians in Reproducibility”. This was a joint event with the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society. There were four invited speakers: Prof. Anne-Laure...
The IBS-BIR genomics event took place online on 25 February 2026 and featured presentations on methods for interpreting genetic variants associated with breast cancer risk, focusing particularly on BRCA1 and BRCA2. Kyriaki Michailidou , Associate Professor and Head of the Department of...
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Richard Cormack who has died at the age of 90. Richard pioneered the development of mark-recapture theory for estimating survival and published a number of landmark research papers. His work has had a lasting impact in...
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...
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