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Master class: The Joy of Missing Out
16 May 2023, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Our next Network of Applied Statisticians in Health (NASH) master class will focus on the issue of making proactive “informed decisions” within an academic career (and possibly outside lives more generally!).
This event is free.
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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Network of Applied Statisticians in Health
In this talk Ruth King will discuss the issue of making proactive “informed decisions” within an academic career (and possibly outside lives more generally!). In particular, she will present her own personal view of dealing with invitations and/or requests received from a variety of different sources (some may be in disguise!). There may be many factors to consider when deciding what, and how, to respond to such requests or invitations (and dependent on who is asking and what the decision is!). However in most situations the invitation can be viewed within a framework of “opportunities versus costs” (admittedly with quite a bit of uncertainty often attached). In her personal experience, responding “yes” often leads to significantly more regret than saying “no”.
Disclaimer from Ruth King – I am still not necessarily very good at following my own advice!
This event is one of a series of Annual Events organised by UCL's Network of Applied Statiscians in Health.
About the Speaker
Ruth King
Professor at University of Edinburgh
She is an Applied Statistician with primary interests in the development and application of novel statistical methods in ecology and epidemiology. She is currently the Thomas Bayes Chair of Statistics (2015+) at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to her current appointment She was a Lecturer (then Reader) at the University of St Andrews (2003-15); following a PDRA at the University of Cambridge (2001-3) and PhD at the University of Bristol (2001). She is an elected fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2017) Royal Society of Edinburgh (2018); and Institute for Mathematical Statistics (2022). In 2022 she was awarded the RSS Barnett Award.
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