The East Midlands local group of the Royal Statistical Society will hold a meeting at the University of Nottingham on Thursday 8 October.

The guest speaker will be Professor David Firth, University of Warwick, who will speak on the topic “Journal rankings: Why (and how) should we care?”. The talk will be broadly accessible to anyone with an interest in bibliometrics, including non-academics.

Free, all welcome. Tea/coffee will be available from 5.30pm and Professor Firth’s talk will be at 6.15pm.

For more information, visit the group’s website or email David Sirl, Lecturer in Statistics, Faculty of Science.