Professor David Hand FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
David Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. He previously worked at London University and the Open University. He is a Chartered Statistician and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He serves on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority and the European Statistical Advisory Committee. He is a former president of the Royal Statistical Society, former Chair of the Board of the Administrative Data Research Network, and served as a member of the ONS Methodology Review Group and the Royal Society / British Academy Data Governance Working Group. He has received many awards for his research, including the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society and the Box Medal from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics. He was made OBE for research and innovation in 2013. His 29 books include Principles of Data Mining, Measurement Theory and Practice, The Improbability Principle, and The Wellbeing of Nations.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College, London; Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College, London
Past appointments
Imperial College of Science and Technology University of London Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
2011 -
Imperial College of Science and Technology University of London Professor of Statistics
1999 -
Imperial College of Science and Technology University of London Professor of Statistics, Imperial College, University of London
1999 -
The Open University Professor of Statistics
1988 - 1999
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience University of London Statistician
1977 - 1988
Publications
The Wellbeing of Nations: Meaning, Motive, and Measurement
P. Allin and D.J. Hand - Published in 2014 by Wiley
The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
D.J. Hand - Published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Measurement Theory and Practice: the World Through Quantification
D.J. Hand - Published in 2004 by Edward Arnold; Wiley
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jennifer Mason FBA
Sociology of personal and everyday life; affinities, kinship, relationalities, connectedness, personal relationships; ecological sociology and socio-atmospherics; qualitative, creative and mixed methodologies, including ‘facet methodology’
Professor Fiona Williams FBA
Gender, 'race' and ethnicity in social policy; migrant care workers and the transnational political economy of care; the place of care in contemporary society; welfare state futures
