Statisticians as Leaders

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

  1. 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)
  • Hons Professor Shelia Bird (University of Edinburgh, former programme leader at MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
  1. 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 here. 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)