Medical statistician wins prestigious award to celebrate women in STEM

A medical statistician from Cardiff University has been chosen to receive a prestigious award celebrating the achievements of women working in STEM. Dr Rhian Daniel was among 11 mathematicians and computer scientists to be honoured at the Suffrage Science Awards for Mathematics and Computing earlier this month. The award is in recognition of their scientific achievements and the work they do to promote maths and computing for the next generation. Women still make up only 24% of those working in core science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations in the UK - and just 13% of students studying computer science and 36% studying mathematics courses. Dr Daniel, a reader in medical statistics from Cardiff University's School of Medicine, said the award was a "surprise and an honour'. "It is humbling to join the expanding network of inspirational women who have received Suffrage Science Awards, especially at a time when diversity and inclusion in academia are rightly on our minds more than ever,' she said. Her work is focused on methods for estimating cause-effect relationships from complex observational data.