Experience
Committees and Positions of Responsibility
Researchers Student Conference in Statistics 2008 - Head Organiser
Head organiser for RSC 2008, held in Nottingham on 31st March to 3rd April. This is the UK's largest Student Researcher Conference in Probability and Statistics (it may be the only one, but it's still the largest).
(School of Mathematical Sciences) Research Committee - Postgrad Representative
Postgrad Researcher's representative on the School Research Committee (2006/7 and 2007/8), dealing with matters relating to research within the school.
Teaching Experience
Graduate School (2007-2009) - Tutor
Graduate School (2007-2009) - Tutor
Tutor for the University of Nottingham Graduate School, teaching the Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods, an introductory course to statistics as a whole. It is a two day course covering a wide range of topics.
Graduate School (2007-2009) - Demonstrator
Demonstrate, as a helper to the course tutor, for LaTeX for Researchers, a course to help people learn LaTeX.
School of Mathematical Sciences (2005-2008) - Demonstrator
Demonstrate, as a helper to the lecturer, for a variety of statistics models (Linear Models, Probability, Statistics for Engineers).
Member of
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) since 2008.
Member of the International Society For Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).
Qualifications
- Education
- 2005-2009: University of Nottingham - PhD in Statistics
- 2001-2005: University of Nottingham - First Class Masters in Mathematics (MMath)
- 1999-2001: Trinity School - Four and a half A-levels at grade A (Mathematics, Further Mathematics, AS Additional Further Mathematics, Physics and Electronics)
- 1993-1999: Trinity School - Ten GCSEs (three A*, four A and three B grades)
- 1987-1993: Heavers Farm Primary School - Reading, Writing and Arithmatic
- 1987-1987: Play group - mainly running around shouting and finger painting
- Other
- Full UK Driving License
- At one time, could quote verbatim several episodes of Red Dwarf, just a few quotes these days.
Skills
| Mathematical Software: | Maple, MATLAB (Octave), S-Plus (R) Very specific packages, but widely applicable experience from using them. |
| Programming/Scripting Languages: | C (extensively used for my research), Perl, PHP, Bash My programming skill is both for hobby websites and serious research applications. |
| Applications: | LaTeX, Office (OpenOffice), MySQL (PostgreSQL, SQLite) A range of database backends and standard presentation and report writing software. |