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{{short description|Professorship at the University of Cambridge}}
The '''Harding Professorship of Statistics in Public Life''' (formerly known as the '''Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk''') is a [[List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge|professorship]] within the [[Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge|Statistical Laboratory]] of the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref>{{Citation | title=Statutes and Ordinances of University of Cambridge | url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/pdfs }}</ref> It was established in 2007 in perpetuity by a benefaction of £3.3m from the [[Winton Capital Management|Winton]] Charitable Foundation,<ref>{{Citation | title='Risk professor' to help public | journal= BBC News | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6266697.stm | date=2007-01-16 | accessdate=2009-12-31}}</ref> later known as the David and Claudia Harding Foundation. It is the only professorship of its type in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Citation | title=Probability lessons | journal=The Times | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5446920.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601231108/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5446920.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 1, 2010 | location=London | first=Mark | last=Henderson | date=2009-01-05}}</ref> There is an associated internet-based program devoted to understanding uncertainty.<ref>{{Citation | title=Understanding uncertainty | url=http://understandinguncertainty.org/}}</ref>
== List of Harding Professors ==
* [[David Spiegelhalter]] (2007–2020)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theactuary.com/features/2016/05/meet-the-performing-statistician/ |title=Meet the performing statistician |last=Hyams |first=Stephen |date=5 May 2016 |website=The Actuary |publisher=[[Institute and Faculty of Actuaries]] |access-date=2 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://qz.com/643234/cambridge-professor-on-how-to-stop-being-so-easily-manipulated-by-misleading-statistics/ |title=A Cambridge professor on how to stop being so easily manipulated by misleading statistics |last=Rathi |first=Akshat |date=26 March 2016 |website=[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]] |access-date=2 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[John Aston (statistician)|John Aston]] (2021–)<ref>https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2020-21/weekly/6595/6595.pdf</ref>
== See also ==
* [[David Harding (mathematician)|David Harding]]
==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010111501] £20 million donation to revolutionise physics research
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