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The Society's honours committee invites fellows, standing committees and section and local group committees to make nominations for the Society awards in 2011. The committee would like to receive as broad a range of nominations as possible to ensure that the awards are made to those who best meet the criteria, which are outlined below.

Fellows can make more than one nomination for each award and can also nominate the same person for more than one award providing they meet the criteria for both awards. Those seeking to make nominations are asked to check the criteria for each award carefully and if in doubt to contact the theme manager for clarification. All nominations must be kept confidential from the nominee.

Guy medals
Named after the distinguished statistician, William Guy FRS, the Guy medals are intended to encourage the cultivation of statistics in their scientific aspects and promote the application of numbers to the solution of important problems in all the relations of life in which the numerical method can be employed, with a view to determining the laws that regulate them.
There are three Guy medals, in gold, silver and bronze. The silver and bronze medals are awarded annually, while the gold medal is normally awarded every three years.

Guy medal in gold
The gold medal may be awarded to fellows or others who are judged to have merited a signal mark of distinction by reason of their innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics.

Guy medal in silver
The silver medal may be awarded to any fellow, or in exceptional cases, to two or more fellows, in respect of a paper or papers of special merit communicated to the Society at its ordinary meetings, or in respect of a paper or papers published in any of the Society’s journals. General contributions to statistics may also be taken into account.

Guy medal in bronze
The bronze medal may be awarded to fellows, or to non-fellows who are members of a section or a local group, in respect of a paper or papers read to a section or local group or at any conference run by the Society, its sections or local groups, or published in any of the Society’s journals. Preference will be given to nominees under the age of 35. Exceptionally, two or more authors of a paper or papers may be considered for the award providing they are fellows or members of sections or local groups. No nominations have been carried forward from previous years.

Research prize
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, a research prize of £500 is awarded biennially for an outstanding original contribution to statistical theory or application as shown in work published in the open literature.
It is intended for research workers near the beginning of their research career. Eligible candidates may be of any age, but post-doctoral nominees must have completed their PhD no longer than five years prior to the date of nomination. Nominees must be fellows of the Society at the time of nomination.
Nominations for the award should be accompanied by a summary (in not more than 500 words) of published research on which the nomination is based. No nominations have been carried forward from previous years.

Honorary fellowship
Honorary fellowships may be awarded in order to recognise individuals of great eminence for their outstanding contribution in other fields, normally related to statistics. The award is open to all nationalities. No nominations have been carried forward from previous years.

More information about honours and awards can be found on the Society's website.