Cathie Marsh (17 February 1951 - 1 January 1993) was a British sociologist and

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

Career

She read Chinese and Social and Political Sciences at

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

; worked at the SSRC Survey Unit (mid-1970s); was a lecturer at

, and worked at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

, where she was appointed Professor in 1992. She died of breast cancer in 1993, aged 41. She wrote two important books: The Survey Method, which made a case for the use of surveys in sociology, and Exploring Data, which explained statistics in a manner in which social scientists students would enjoy. This book was updated by

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in 2008. Th
Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST)
at the University of Manchester was named after her. The computing room in her old faculty at the University of Cambridge, SPS,

Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, University of Cambridge The Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science at the University of Cambridge was created in 2011 out of a merger of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies. ...

, was renamed the Cathie Marsh Machine Room after her death.

References

British sociologists British statisticians British women sociologists Women statisticians 1951 births 1993 deaths {{UK-sociologist-stub