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Professor Simon French, the recently appointed Director of the Risk Initiative and Statistical Consultancy Unit, has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the . The award took place at the IIRSM’s Luncheon at the House of Lords on September 27. In making the award, Geoff Lloyd, the deputy chairman of IIRSM’s Board, cited Professor French’s work in helping assess, analyse and communicate risk in a range of contexts from nuclear energy to health and food safety. Professor French expressed his delight on receiving the fellowship and thanked the many colleagues with whom he had worked over the years. He singled out the support of his family for special mention and in particular thanked his daughters for teaching him more about risk than he really wished to know!

Firth, Johansen, Kendall and others have been awarded an EPSRC grant of £144k as follow-on funding for operating APTS through till September 2016.

Congratulations to Professor Jane Hutton and Dr Judith Anzures-Cabrera on being awarded the Gopal Kanji Prize by the Journal of Applied Statistics and Taylor & Francis

The article investigated the long-term survival of A-bomb survivors, comparing people who entered a special benefit as soon as they were offered with those who delayed registering as an A-bomb survivor. We developed models to assess the impact of delay on the rates of death from different causes of death. The cancer death rates for men are slightly higher for those who delayed entry than those who took benefits immediately. For women, delayed entry is associated with increased risk of cancer, but decreased risk of death form heart disease and other causes.

(The prize is announced in the journal's page: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02664763.asp)

The Department of Statistics is pleased to be a partner in the newly announced at 糖心TV.  This new funding from ESRC will provide exciting PhD opportunities for students whose interests are in statistical methodology for social-science applications.  The first studentships under this scheme will be available from October 2011, and more details will be announced shortly.  (Departmental contact: David Firth)

A direct upshot of the is a special issue of the major international journal Statistica Sinica, with 14 new peer-reviewed papers on this topic.  The special issue was edited by N Reid (U Toronto), B Lindsay (Penn State U) and K-Y Liang (Johns Hopkins U), and can be found online at