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Please notify your students - Radical Statistics Critical Essay First prize £500, Second prize £250; further prizes to be announced. This will be an original essay which addresses a current social research/policy question and will involve the critical use and interpretation of relevant data sources. Maximum, 3,000 words. This is open to all, apart from teachers in the further/higher education system. Students in further/higher education in particular are encouraged to apply. Account will be taken in the judging of age and experience. Deadline for applications - 1st May 2002. The essay awarded first prize will be featured on the Radical Statistics website http://www.radstats.org.uk/ and will be summarized in 'Radical Statistics', the newsletter of Radical statistics (past copies shown on website). Judges decision will be by 1st June 2002. Applications are encouraged well before deadline. Contact [log in to unmask] for further details. Submission Guidelines Length. Essay should be under 3000 words, excluding references and up to ten moderate sized tables/figures. Content. This will be an original essay which addresses a current social research/policy question and will involve the critical use and interpretation of relevant data sources. Font Preferred font; times new roman, 12 point. Your details We wish to take reasonable account of age and experience in the judging of this competition. In order to do this fairly, we ask you to provide us with an outline CV (around one page will be fine) which gives age, recent job and educational experience and any relevant publications. We would also request a contact address and telephone (including for the month of June) as well as e mail. Radical Statistics was formed in 1975 by researchers and statisticians with a common concern about the political implications of their work and an awareness of the actual and potential misuse of statistics. The RSG is independent of any other organisation. Members are radical in being committed to helping build a more free, democratic and egalitarian society. Radical Statistics meets once a year (February - details on website) and publishes a newsletter 2/3 times a year. It has an active website and an electronic discussion list (you can join online at: <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/radstats.html> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/radstats.html where you can also access archives of past messages and get more details on the list). Much of the work of the RSG is done in subgroups, currently in health, education and economics, whose membership is open to all. In recent years it has published a number of books including 'Statistics in Society' Ed Daniel Dorling and Steven Simpson, 'Official health statistics; an unofficial guide' Ed. Susan Kerrison and Alison. Macfarlane and 'Tackling inequalities: where are we now and what can be done?' Ed. Christina Pantazis and David Gordon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robin Rice Data Librarian Edinburgh University Data Library Main Library Bldg., George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LJ [log in to unmask] 0131 651 1431 http://datalib.ed.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~