The Oxford University Statistical Consulting team attended the Royal Statistical Society Conference in Harrogate (4-7 September 2023). In addition to attending many interesting talks, they had the opportunity to organise and participate in two invited sessions. Mariagrazia Zottoli and Cora Mezger gave a talk on the work they are doing with OxUSC, and the challenges and rewards of providing statistical consultancy in an academic setting.

DPhil student Arun Raja has been awarded the National University of Singapore (NUS) Development Grant Award, based on the recommendation of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, NUS, and will be accorded the title 'Young NUS Fellow'.

The Department has been granted an Athena Swan Silver Award, reflecting the collective efforts made over the intervening years to work towards greater gender and intersectional equality. 

Edwin Fong has received the 2022 Savage Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for his DPhil thesis The predictive view of Bayesian inference.

Dr Oliver Crook has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Young Biometrician Award for his paper “Semi-Supervised Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling of Spatial Proteomics” (The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2022).

Dr Tom Rainforth has been awarded a major European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. His work centres on foundational and methodological problems in machine learning, with a particular focus on data-efficient approaches and intelligent data acquisition.

Alison Etheridge has been awarded the 2023 IMA–LMS David Crighton Medal for services to mathematics and the mathematical community.

The paper "From Denoising Diffusions to Denoising Markov Models" authored by Joe Benton, Yuyang Shi, Valentin De Bortoli, George Deligiannidis and Arnaud Doucet has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B as a prestigious read paper.

Three members of the Department of Statistics have been commended in the MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Awards Best Team Effort category.