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The 76th annual New Zealand Statistical Association Conference will be hosted by the University of Auckland, December 14-16 2026.
For more information, and to register or submit an abstract, please see https://www.stats.org.nz/nzsa2026/index.php.
Early bird registration and abstract submission are open until 31 October.
The conference will run from 1pm Monday the 14th to 5pm on Wednesday the 16th.
Wednesday afternoon will deviate a little bit from the usual NZSA format, with 3 options:
Survival Analysis Workshop (Thomas Lumley) • VGAM Workshop (Thomas Lee) • Women in Data Science Event
Please register for a workshop if you plan to attend as the workshops are subject to minimum registrations.
We are now accepting applications for the 2026 NZSA Travel Grants. The Student Travel Award and the Early-Career Travel Grant each fund travel to attend of our 2026 Conference. More information and eligibility criteria can be found here.
The NZSA Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the Association’s awards for 2026. The list of awards is:
Campbell Award, recognising sustained contribution to the promotion and development of statistics.
Jean Thompson Award, recognising excellence in the application of statistics in New Zealand industry.
Littlejohn Research Award, recognising excellence in research, based on publications during the five calendar years preceding the date of the award.
Worsley Early Career Research Award, recognising outstanding recent published research from a New Zealand statistician in the early stages of their career.
Regulations, including details of the nomination requirements, can be found on the webpages linked above. Nominations (or queries regarding these awards) should be sent to Vanessa Cave, Convenor of the NZSA Awards Committee, by email. The closing date for 2026 nominations is Monday 9th November.
The 2025 NZSA Award Recipients are pictured below.
The NZSA Newsletter, Issue 94, April 2026, is available here.
We have three webinars on our YouTube channel
- Recruitment Process with Tim Cooke from Potentia
- Crafting Your Data Science Journey by Dr Anjali Gupta
- Career progression: Commonalities & differences from academia to industry