The Harding Professorship of Statistics in Public Life (formerly known as the Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk) is a
professorship
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors ...
within the
Statistical Laboratory of the
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...
. It was established in 2007 in perpetuity by a benefaction of £3.3m from the
Winton Charitable Foundation, later known as the David and Claudia Harding Foundation. It is the only professorship of its type in the United Kingdom. There is an associated internet-based program devoted to understanding uncertainty.
List of Harding Professors
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David Spiegelhalter
Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk, Winton Professor of the Public Under ...
(2007–2020)
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John Aston (2021–)
[https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2020-21/weekly/6595/6595.pdf]
See also
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David Harding
References
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External links
£20 million donation to revolutionise physics research
Professorships at the University of Cambridge, Public Understanding of Risk, Winton
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
2007 establishments in England
Public Understanding of Risk, Winton