Dear all
MLwiN's 20th birthday - 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants'
You can see this message with some great photos here:
http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/learning-training/multilevel-m-support/news.shtml
We had a gathering of colleagues and friends to celebrate MLwiN's (and MLwiN's
precursors, ML2, ML3 and MLn) 20th birthday on Wednesday 4th March 2009.
Many of CMM's collaborators attended the birthday party and enjoyed the MLwiN
cake .
During the celebrations, Jon Rasbash spoke briefly about the beginning of the
software, and related that it was first created during the early days of his
collaboration with Harvey Goldstein (who is still part of the CMM team) and
Michael Healy. Micheal Healy is now in his 80s, and as a young man worked with
the famous statistician, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, this lineage bringing to
mind the saying 'standing on the shoulders of giants'.
The CMM team moved from the Institute of Education in London to the Graduate
School of Education at the University of Bristol in 2005, a move which has been
a great success and has cemented our collaboration: "It's been great for us to
relocate here, we are all really happy, the Graduate School has been a great
home for us as has BIPA (the Bristol Institute of Public Affairs) and the wider
university. We are working closely with colleagues from other disciplines such
as Geography, Economics, Veterinary Science and Social Medicine".
Thank you, Becky, for coming up with the birthday celebration idea, and
Michelle for organising it so well. It is important for the team to stop once
in a while and review where we are and how far we have come. This is especially
important as usually the team focuses on looking to the future, developing
exciting and pioneering methods in multilevel modelling.
Jon finished by saying the Graduate School of Education will be "a great place
to spend the next 20 years"
Also: Research Workshop in Multilevel Modelling, 7th-9th Sep 2009
This is a new workshop, adapted from our popular 'Getting Started' workshop. It
provides an opportunity for a small group of researchers to analyse their own
multilevel datasets with support from the CMM team, and to get advice on how to
interpret and present their findings. For further details on this workshop and
how to apply for it, go to our workshop page:
http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/MLwiN/tech-support/workshops/index.shtml
With best regards
Hilary Browne
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