On 2 October 2015, twelve RadStats members participated in a Working Meeting in London to discuss future RadStats publications. This meeting was organised by Jeff Evans.
Amongst other things, this meeting considered a number of Scoping Papers produced by the participants:
- SP1: Big Data Ideas – Political Perspectives and Radical Statistics (John Bibby)
- SP2: (Jeff Evans) Superceded.
- SP3a: Challenges, Opportunities, Fellow travellers, Threats and Questions (Jim Ridgway)
- SP3b: Powerful data – statistics to support social change (Jim Ridgway)
- SP4a: What we need to decide on 2nd October (Humphrey Southall)
- SP4b: Statistics and “Big Data” in the Social Sciences and History (Humphrey Southall)
- SP4b1: New Developments in “Data” (Humphrey Southall)
- SP5: Some issues in linking large data sets (Harvey Goldstein)
- SP6: Professional issues, the RSS, and statistical work (Kevin McConway)
- SP7a: Teaching {Stats / QM} and Training (Trude Sundberg, Rachel Cohen)
- SP7b: Experiential learning of statistics – being critical in (and of?) the workplace (Jackie Carter)
- SP8: Radical–>Radical Statistics, rather than Statistics—>Radical Statistics (Rachel Cohen)
- SP9: Big Data: information windfall, or merely hot air? (Jeff Evans, Ludi Simpson) Superceded.
- SP10: Health Statistics (Alison Macfarlane)
- SP11: Social Science Measurement in Diverse Societies (Jan Boehnke)
The next meeting will be held 26 February in York (the day before the conference).