Academics from across Oxford University have been honoured for their services in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, published as Her Majesty celebrates her Platinum Jubilee. Professor Charlotte Deane of the Department of Statistics is appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to COVID-19 research.
To find out more about the work for which Professor Deane received this honour, you can read her blog post on being the COVID-19 Response Director for UKRI.
Finding a needle in the genomic haystack: Targeting rare genes using statistical outliers
In statistical modelling, extreme outliers are often written off as 'noise'. But a new study by researchers from Oxford's Department of Statistics and Big Data Institute published this week in The American Journal of Human Genetics reverses that principle, using these outliers as the basis of a targeting system for locating rare, high-impact genetic mutations.
Professor Ben Lambert wins MPLS Research Supervision Award
Professor Ben Lambert has won a 2025/26 Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Award for Outstanding Research Supervision, recognised for his exceptional dedication to supporting researchers at every stage of their development.
Brian Ripley recognised in $1 million Rousseeuw Prize for contributions to the R Project
Professor Brian Ripley, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics and former Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, has been named as one of five laureates of the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics.