Karsten Shaw joins Royal Statistical Society and Market Research Society committees ​

Congratulations to Statistics Guest Lecturer Karsten Shaw, who is now a committee member of both the Royal Statistical Society Social Statistics Group and the Market Research Society (MRS)​'s Advanced Data Analytics Group.

Karsten told us that: "Both committees had independently identified synthetic data as an emerging topic of interest, so I suggested bringing them together for what has become the first joint RSS/MRS event of its kind. Given my background in market research, where synthetic data is attracting both considerable interest and healthy scepticism, I've been able to draw on my professional network built over the past 30 years to help shape the programme.

That has included recruiting speakers from leading organisations such as Ipsos, NIQ, Virgin and Barclays, helping develop the agenda, securing sponsorship and acting as joint convener for the event.

It's been particularly exciting to bring together academic and industry perspectives on a topic that's moving rapidly from theory into real-world practice, and we're expecting a strong audience from across both professions."

Well done Karsten!