2008 Prize Winners
The second annual Manchester Student Prize ceremony took place on 9th July at Manchester University. This year it had been decided to split the prize into two streams -
one for people reading maths or statistics and another for the rest.
The standard of the work of all entrants was very commendable and the
winners in particular are to be congratulated. After much deliberation, the final winners were: We were honoured to have the Society Vice-President Sheila Bird to present the
prizes although Stan was unfortunately not available to receive his and his tutor John Goddard deputised.
Maths and Stats Stream
Gold
Vanessa Rigby
Manchester University
Statistical inference for epidemics
Silver
Helen Cumberland
Sheffield University
Medical statistics: survival analysis
Bronze
Susanna Rogers
Sheffield University
Statistical approaches in the timing of animal extinctions
Non-maths and stats Stream
Silver
Lam Chung (Stan) Yan
Bangor Business School
Political institutions and economic growth - an empirical investigation
(left to right - is Vanessa Rigby, Susanna Rogers, Sheila Bird, Helen Cumberland and John Goddard)