Teaching Statistics is pleased to announce that the article entitled “New viruses are inevitable; pandemics are optional—Lessons for and from statistics” by James Nicholson and Jim Ridgway has been awarded the C. Oswald George prize for 2024.
This paper brings together extensive and groundbreaking work of leading statistical and data science educators in five countries, that is of vital importance in student learning and promoting civic engagement with explorations of evidence.
Please see the Announcement in Teaching Statistics for further information.
HISTORY OF THE PRIZE
Dr. C. Oswald George was an eminent government statistician in the UK; one of the founders of the UK’s Institute of Statisticians who served as Chairman and President. He donated a sum of money for the ‘best paper, especially submitted by younger authors, in the field of applied statistics’. The prize was subsequently attached to the Institute’s own professional exams. After the formation of Teaching Statistics in 1979, the Institute made the prize money available for the best article in Teaching Statistics, and this prize has continued to be made available following the merger of the Institute with the Royal Statistical Society. Dr. C. Oswald George died on 6 January 1974, but we are pleased to be able to honour his legacy each year through the award of this prize to the ‘best’ article in Teaching Statistics.