Jonathan Forster

Jon is Professor and Head of Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick. He has held academic appointments at Loughborough and Carnegie Mellon Universities and the University of Southampton, where he was head of the School of Mathematical Sciences. He has published widely on statistical methodology and applications in various fields; he is co-author of Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics (Vol 2b: Bayesian Inference) and was awarded the 1999 RSS Guy Medal in Bronze. In 2019 he was a member of the advisory group for the Pearce review of the Teaching Excellence Framework.

At the RSS he has served on the Research Section committee, Council, chaired the editorial board of Significance magazine and has been associate editor for Series B and Series C RSS journals.