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WHO ARE RoSE?

We are the Researchers of Statistics Education Network, or RoSE Network for short. Founded by Jenny Terry in 2019, RoSE was a way for the often siloed researchers in statistics education to connect and support each other. Years later, our committee has expanded to almost 40 members from all over the world, all dedicated to statistics education research and scholarship. 

As a Network, we host events such as our free eConference, whilst our special interest groups (SIGs) run a variety of smaller initiatives, such as reading groups, seminars, and research collaborations. For example, in line with our current focus on supporting early career researchers in statistics education, our Research and Scholarship SIG are co-developing a webinar series on how to get started in the field, with the Royal Statistics Society’s Teaching Statistics Section and CAUSE Research. And to keep all of us connected, we host a Slack channel where our committee and the wider community gather to discuss statistics teaching and research.

Within RoSE, our core values inform how we operate, how we interact within the community, how we conduct our research, how we share our resources, and what we believe should be present in our statistics classrooms. Embedded in our Code of Conduct, our practices are informed by the values of EDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility), Openness and Transparency, Kindness and Integrity. This means that we are committed to actions such as proactive inclusion and diversification of our committee and of those who participate in our events and initiatives, as well as the practice of transparent research practices. 

You can find out more about RoSE and our diverse network of members by navigating to the pages under About Us.

WHAT’S IN STORE FOR THE RoSE BLOG?

Following the launch of the blog, we will be publishing one post a month (or more depending on how many contributors we have), and we hope that what we will be discussing will satiate your curiosities and questions about statistics education research! If this post has piqued your interest, please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts in our online communities, and share it with anyone else you think would be interested.

If you’d like to contribute to the RoSE Blog, please get into contact with our Blog Editor, Magdalene Ho, with your ideas (we will soon be launching our contributor and publishing procedure in January, but we're always open for contributions!) We welcome any content relating to statistics education, from insightful deep dives, to pretty and informative data visualisations or interviews with colleagues in the field, we encourage you to be as creative as you wish!