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The NZSA 2025 Conference will be held in Dunedin from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 December 2025, hosted by the University of Otago, with the conference sessions located in the St David Complex. More information will be posted soon.
The NZSA Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the Association’s awards for 2025. The list of awards is:
Campbell Award, recognising sustained contribution to the promotion and development of statistics.
Jean Thompson Award, recognising excellence in the application of statistics in New Zealand industry.
Littlejohn Research Award, recognising excellence in research, based on publications during the five calendar years preceding the date of the award.
Worsley Early Career Research Award, recognising outstanding recent published research from a New Zealand statistician in the early stages of their career.
Nominations (or queries) should be sent to Vanessa Cave, Convenor of the NZSA Awards Committee, by email. The closing date for 2025 nominations is Monday 3 November.
The first Webinar on our new YouTube channel is: Career progression: Commonalities & differences from academia to industry.
The NZSA Newsletter, Issue 92, March 2025, is now available here.
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 NZSA Award Recipients are Lisa Thomasen (Campbell Award), Tilman Davies (Littlejohn Award) and David Baird (Jean Thompson Award). More information is here.
The NZSA congratulates the winners of the 2024 NZSA Best Student Presentations. The prizes were sponsored by Harmonic Analytics. More information is here.
2024 NZSA Best Student Presentations (from left to right): Bradley Drayton (highly commended), Angeline Xiao (highly commended), Matthew Stansfield (Harmonic Analytics CEO), John Haywood (NZSA President), Tori Diamond (best student presentation), Tarin Eccleston (highly commended) and Adam Glucksman (highly commended)