Dear Ellen, I would also like to be involved in these discussions, but can't make the 9th November. Are you planning to post a short summary of the meeting via this forum? 
Thanks and best wishes, Rachel.

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From: The sigma network for cross-university mathematics and statistics support [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Wilson
Sent: 11 September 2012 22:34
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Subject: Re: Meeting to discuss statistics support 9th November 2012

Dear Ellen

I would be very interested to be involved in these discussions as statistics support is something that is becoming increasingly difficult to support at Cardiff. 

Unfortunately, I am unable to attend the meeting in November but I would like to keep up with any developments. I will also forward details of the meeting to the (informal) welsh maths support network, although most are newly formed centres so I don't know how much interest there is likely to be at this stage.

Best wishes

Rob


Dr Robert Wilson
Maths Support Service
Cardiff University

Website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/mathssupport 

On 11 Sep 2012, at 16:57, Ellen Marshall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear all,
> We would like to propose an initial meeting of the statistics support interest group at Sheffield University on Friday 9th November, starting at 12:15pm and finishing at approximately 3:45pm.  This idea was first proposed at the 2012 MSOR conference following interesting discussion on statistics support.
> 
> This will be a fairly informal meeting with discussion about the format for future meetings included during the afternoon.  We are open to suggestions for discussion topics but propose the following to get started:  
> 1.    How can we help each other in the statistics support community and where do we go from here?
> 2.    The possibility of working together to provide centralised resources.  We will introduce the Statstutor website and proposed dataset resource section to get things started.
> 3.    How different universities deal with supporting students rather than doing their work for them.  Thank you to those of you who responded to this point in the initial email I sent.
> Could you please email me on [log in to unmask] to let me know if you are interested and feel free to forward this on to anyone you think may be interested.  Once I have a better idea about numbers, I will forward details of the room where the meeting will be held to all interested parties.
> 
> Ellen
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