09:30 to 10:00 | Registration, Tea and Coffee | |||
10:00 to 10:10 | Welcome and Introduction |
Maha Kaouri (Isaac Newton Institute) Kevin McConway (The Open University) |
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Session 1: Good Practice (Chair: Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway)) | 10:10 to 10:35 | Reflections on Communicating Government Statistics for a Public Audience | Martin Ralphs (Office for National Statistics) |
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10:35 to 11:00 | Communicating Uncertainty in Official Statistics | Mark Pont (Office for Statistics Regulation) |
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11:00 to 11:25 | A Tiered Guide to Communicating Modelling, Not Models | Volker Grimm (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ ) |
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11:25 to 11:50 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
11:50 to 12:15 | Data Journalism & Audience Accessibility | Anna Khoo (Office for National Statistics) |
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12:15 to 12:40 | How Risk is Communicated in the Insurance Industry | Shane Latchman (Verisk) |
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12:40 to 13:00 | Questions and Discussion |
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13:00 to 13:50 | Lunch | |||
Session 2: Public Experience (Chair: David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)) | 13:50 to 14:15 | More or Less Editorial Decisions | Richard Vadon (BBC) |
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14:15 to 14:40 | How do GPs Understand Diagnostic Tests? | Jessica Watson (University of Bristol) |
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14:40 to 15:05 | Lessons I've Learned in How to Bring Maths to the Masses | Hannah Fry (University College London) | ||
15:05 to 15:30 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
15:30 to 15:55 | What is the Point of Exchanging Reasons? | Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling) |
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15:55 to 16:20 | 'Mere Spectacle for Idle Moments...' On the Origins of the Debate about Visual Embellishment in Graphical Display | Murray Dick (Newcastle University) |
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16:20 to 16:45 | Data Visualisation and Digital Accessibility: What We Can Do to Help |
Hannah Thomas (Government Analysis Function) Hannah Thomas (Government Analysis Function) |
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16:45 to 17:00 | Questions and Discussion |
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17:00 to 18:30 | Networking Reception with Interactive Session (Chair: Timandra Harkness) | |||
19:30 to 20:30 | Dinner at Churchill College |
09:30 to 10:00 | Tea and Coffee | |||
Session 3: Pandemic and Other Emergencies (Chair: Timandra Harkness ) | 10:00 to 10:25 | Trust, Time and Truth | Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), (Plus Magazine) |
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10:25 to 10:50 | Challenges in Communicating the Results of SAGE's Covid Modelling | Tom Irving (University of Brighton), (Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) |
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10:50 to 11:15 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
11:15 to 11:40 | Panel Discussion: Introduction from Panellists |
Sarah Rasmussen (University of Cambridge) Ed Humpherson (Office for Statistics Regulation) Nick Holliman (King's College London) Mark Woolhouse (University of Edinburgh), (University of Edinburgh) |
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11:40 to 12:25 | Panel Discussion: Questions and Discussion |
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12:25 to 13:15 | Lunch | |||
Session 4: Experience and Next Steps (Chair: Kevin McConway (The Open University) | 13:15 to 13:40 | Climate Change & Communicating Counterfactuals | Emily Shuckburgh (University of Cambridge) |
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13:40 to 14:05 | Good, and Not So Good, Experiences in Dealing with the Media | David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge) |
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14:05 to 14:30 | Talking Maths in Public: Popularisation of Mathematics |
Ben Sparks (University of Bath), (Advanced Mathematics Support Programme) Katie Steckles (Sheffield Hallam University) |
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14:30 to 14:55 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
14:55 to 15:10 | Communicating Mathematics: The Role of the Publisher | David Tranah (Cambridge University Press) |
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15:10 to 15:25 | Launching a Statistics Book Series for a General Audience | Rob Calver (Taylor & Francis Group) |
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15:25 to 15:45 | Royal Statistical Society’s Statistical Ambassadors Programme | Rob Mastrodomenico (Alchemax Analytics), (Royal Statistical Society) |
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15:45 to 16:30 | Discussion and Next Steps (Chair: Christopher Budd (University of Bath)) |
Julia Gog (University of Cambridge) Tom Whipple (The Times) Mary Gregory (Office for National Statistics) Christie Marr (National Academy for the Mathematical Sciences) |
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16:30 | End |