The 2011 Cathie Marsh Memorial Lecture
8 November 2011
5:00pm, at the Royal Statistical Society
Tea/coffee available from 4.30
Chair Jil Matheson, National Statistician, ONS
Speakers
Professor Neville Davies, Director, The Royal Statistical Society Centre for
Statistical Education, University of Plymouth
Richard Alldritt, Head of Assessment and UK Statistics Authority board member
Professor Mike Hough, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, School of Law,
Birkbeck College
Statisticians and social researchers too often find their findings misreported and misused. The
charge is often made that too many people in the UK are innumerate. This limits the reporting
of social issues and people’s understanding of the social world with attendant implications for
policy making.
Speakers will explore the challenges faced and progress being made by producers of statistics
in reaching out to the wider public as well as professional users of statistics. The implications
for education and the professional social research and statistics community will also be
discussed.
This meeting is free but places are limited. Bookings are via the RSS.
Please register by email meetings@rss.org.uk or phone 020 7638 8998 or click
http://membership.rss.org.uk/main.asp?group=&page=1332&event=1360&month=&year=&d
ate= For a map and directions see www.rss.org.uk/findus.
We anticipate the presentations and discussions will finish by 7pm.
