Burwalls meetings started in 1980 in a grand house called 'Burwalls' in Bristol, and have continued by tradition ever since. In recent years the Burwalls meeting has become peripatetic, held in turn at the institutions where participants work.
This article contains a history of Burwalls:
Altman, D. (2002). Invited talk: 20 years of Burwalls. Statistics in medicine, 21(7), 959-967. (https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.1125)
The 2025 meeting was hosted by Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. It was a celebration of 40+ years of Burwalls.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
The meeting was kindly sponsored by Bezalel Education, a Higher Education Consultancy Company and by Pearson, a world leading education provider.
Burwalls paired up with the first UK Conference on Teaching Statistics (UKCOTS) in 2024.
The joint conference was held at the University of Manchester, 13-14 June, 2024.
More details on UKCOTS can be found here: https://www.ukcots.org/
The final conference programme can be found here.
The 2023 meeting, was hosted by Queen’s University Belfast - it was the first in-person Burwalls meeting since COVID-19.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
The 2022 meeting, was online and hosted by Queen’s University Belfast.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
The 2021 meeting, was online and hosted by Cardiff University.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
The 2020 meeting, was online and hosted by Cardiff University.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
The 2019 meeting, was hosted by Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
The 2018 meeting, was hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
The 2017 meeting, was hosted by the University of Nottingham.
The final meeting programme can be found here.
2016: University of Southampton
2015: King's College London
2014: University of Aberdeen
2013: St Hugh’s College, Oxford
2012: University of Manchester
2011: University of Glasgow
2010: Keele University
2009: University of Leeds
2008: Burwalls Centre for Continuing Education, Bristol
2007: Sheffield
2006: Burwalls, Bristol
2005: Burwalls, Bristol
2004: Burwalls, Bristol
2003: Burwalls, Bristol
2002: Burwalls, Bristol
2001: Burwalls, Bristol