The Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science Annual Lecture 2023: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

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This annual lecture was presented at the University of Dundee on the 21 of June 2023 to a hybrid audience.

At the 7th LRCFS Annual Lecture, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter joined us to discuss Communicating Statistical Evidence in Court and in Public Inquiries.

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS is Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, which aimed to improve the way that statistical evidence is used by health professionals, patients, lawyers and judges, media and policy-makers. He was very busy over the Covid crisis. He presented the BBC4 documentaries “Tails you Win: the Science of Chance”, the award-winning “Climate Change by Numbers”. His bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, was published in March 2019, and Covid by Numbers came out in September 2021. His career highlights include appearing on Desert Island Discs in 2022, and in 2011 coming 7th in an episode of BBC1’s Winter Wipeout.

He was knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics, was President of the Royal Statistical Society (2017-2018), and became a Non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority in 2020. He is @d_spiegel on Twitter, and his home page is http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~david/.


The lecture was opened by Professor Iain Gillespie, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee. The event was chaired by Professor Niamh Nic Daeid, Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee.

Period	21 Jun 2023
Degree of Recognition	National