Wednesday 25th April 2018

Sheila Bird (formerly MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge and College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

Why replication (and editors' support) matters especially in record-linkage studies

By a series of examples, I illustrate the importance of replication in support of discoveries made by record-linkage; and discuss editors' reactions to "second" studies.

Jennifer Rogers (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford and Royal Statistical Society Vice-President for External Affairs) CANCELLED

Jen Rogers is the current Royal Statistical Society Vice-President for External Affairs and during this talk she will present some of the projects that she has been working on whilst undertaking this role. This will include media projects and her experiences of interacting with journalists, as well as work that she has been carrying out to improve

standards in advertising.

Peter Wilmshurst

Giving evidence to the Science and Technology Committee Research Integrity Inquiry

Because of my concern about the extent of research misconduct, I submitted written evidence to the Inquiry and was pleasantly surprised to be invited to give oral evidence. I was surprised that academic organisations, which also gave evidence, tried to play down the extent of research misconduct. They are conflicted by the need for public perception that research is honest and ethical. A MP, whose responses suggested to me that she is unwilling to accept that research misconduct is prevalent, had failed to disclose her conflicts of interest completely. The Committee has published my letter on that point and the civil servants involved accepted the concern on that issue and will ask for fuller disclosure.

Venue: Room 1.08, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds

Refreshments: 14:00

Presentations: 14:30 - 17:00