Caradog Jones Lectures

The Caradog Jones Lectures have been given roughly biennially since 1967 and are jointly organised by:

  • The Royal Statistical Society

  • The Galton Institute

  • The Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge

The lecture is arranged in rotation by one of the three organisers.

The lecturer should preferably be under the age of 35 and the subject of the lecture should be directly related to the improvement of social conditions and/or of international relations, eg:

  1. The improvement of the quality of the population of Great Britain

  2. The improvement of relations between employers and employed in Great Britain

  3. The improvement of relations between nations to prevent war

The lecture may be published by the Royal Statistical Society or The Galton Institute.
Year Lecturer Title
1967 Dr M Nicholson The Resolution of Conflict
1969 Mrs M E Bateman Improving Relationships between Management and Employees
1971 Professor G A Barnard Choices of Higher Education - Schools and Universities
1973 Mr F E Whitehead Statistics and Social Policy
1975 Dr T W Meade Our Lives and Hard Times: Dilemmas for Medical Practice and Research in Times of Economic Stringency
1977 Sir Otto Kahn-Freund Are Labour Regulations Regulated by Law?
1979 Dr D A Coleman Statistical Studies of Marriage and the Integrity of Society
1981 Robert Peel Natural Selection, Social Evolution and Economic Strategy
1983 The Right Hon., Lord Trend The Self and Society
1987 Dr Alan Bittles Famine and Man: Lessons from the Irish Past, a Guide to the future?
1990 Mr Patrick Elias QC Striking the Balance? Industrial Action and the Law
1992 Professor Richard Peto Overviews of the results of many clinical trials: the optimality of simple statistical methods
1994 Dr C G N Mascie-Taylor Biological and Health Aspects of Social Class
1996 Judge Stephen Tumin The Purpose of Imprisonment
1998 Professor Ian Diamond Monitoring the Effectiveness of interventions to reduce unplanned pregnancy: the role of statistics
2002 Sarah Nathan Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: Inside and Out
2005 Javier Solana The Next Steps in Europe's Journey
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