The Florence Nightingale Lectures aim to invite a distinguished speaker to lecture on a statistical topic of their choice, one which can inspire the current generation as Nightingale herself did.
Friday 23rd February 2024
Speaker: Professor Barbara Engelhardt, Stanford University
Title: Statistics, nursing and social reform: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale
Friday 3rd February 2023
Speaker: Professor Marloes Maathuis
Title: Causal learning from observational data
Friday 4th March 2022 (Online)
Speaker: Professor Sir Bernard Silverman, Professor of Modern Slavery Statistics, University of Nottingham
Title: Statistics and The Fight Against Modern Slavery
Tuesday 1st December 2020 (Online)
Speaker: Professor Deborah Ashby, President of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
Title: Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
Tuesday 30th April 2019
Speaker: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter,
Title: What would Florence Nightingale make of the way data is being used today?
Wednesday 8th November 2017
Speaker: Professor Sir Andrew Dilnot, Warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Title: Numbers and Public policy: Why statistics really matter
Thursday 21st April 2016
Speaker: Professor Dame Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EDI)
Title: Bioinformatics at the heart of biology and genomic medicine
Thursday 16th April 2015 (Part of It All Addus Up: Celebrative Women Across the Mathematical Sciences)
Speaker: Professor Christl Donnelly, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Title: An epidemiologist's life on the edge (of the science-policy interface)
2008
Speaker: Professor David Clayton, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Title: Revisiting some old epidemiological debates and controversies after the "genetic revolution"
2007
Speaker: Professor Lewis Wolpert, University College London
Title: What determines our beliefs?
2004
Speaker: Professor Sir David Cox, Nuffield College, Oxford
Title: From public policy to particle physics: statistics in the 21st century
2002
Speaker: Mr Peter Clark, President of Actuaries
Title: Words and numbers - actuaries are ambidextrous
2000
Speaker: Professor Sir Robert May, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government
Title: Extinction: biodiversity challenged
1998
Speaker: Professor Barry Scheck, Professor of Law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
Title: Scientific evidence and criminal justice
1997
Speaker: Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, Principal, Hertford College
Title: The somatic evolution of cancer