About this Event
In honour of the late Professor Graham Dunn, The Centre for Biostatistics decided to rename their biannual seminar series to honour its founder and his contribution. The next Graham Dunn Seminar will contain three talks focusing on the topic of Developments in Teaching Statistics.
The seminar will be held in person (Lecture theatre A101, Samuel Alexander Building) with the option to attend online to those who register. The session includes three talks of approximately 45min in length , with a 15 minute break between the second and third speakers. We are pleased to confirm the three excellent speakers are – Prof Rachel Hilliam (Open University), Prof Rhys Jones (University of Surrey), and Dr Phillip Sedgwick (St Georges, University of London).
About the speakers & their talks:
Prof Rachel Hilliam (Open University),
Professor Hilliam is Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, where she has previously held the roles of Director of Teaching for Mathematics and Statistics and academic lead for the Mathematics and Statistics student support team.
She has worked in a number of universities and as a medical statistician in the NHS before joining The Open University in 2011. Since 2019 she has held the position of Honorary Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Warwck and is a Visiting Fellow in the College of Heath and Social Care at the University of Derby which she has held since 2015.
Rachel is currently Vice-President at the Royal Statistical Society where she chairs the Professional Affairs Committee and is the inaugural chair of the Alliance for Data Science Professionals.
She has a strong interest in teaching statistics and has given the statistics workshop for the Induction Course for New Lecturers in Mathematics Sciences organised by the Institute of Mathematics and its Application. Rachel is a founding member of the Special Interest Group in Teaching Statistics at the RSS and is a founding co-organiser, along with Michael Grove (IMA and University of Birmingham) and Kevin Houston (LMS and University of Leeds), of TALMO (Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online).
Prof Rhys Jones (University of Surrey)
Professor Rhys Christopher Jones is the Associate Dean for Education in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, at the University of Surrey. His primary role is to support the development and implementation of the Faculties education strategy and the Universities education agenda.
Over his career he has taught on a variety of undergraduate and post graduate courses, including: statistics, research methods, biomedical science, nutrition and organic chemistry, mathematics for science, health and well-being and clinical anatomy and physiology. He has also taught a variety of science-based subjects in Further Education colleges, which include GCSE, BTEC, Access and A levels.
His primary research contributions are in the areas of curriculum development, randomness misconceptions in statistics, and the role of context in statistics education. Rhys’s research interests also focus on mathematical and statistical anxiety, helping to inform strategies to engage and motivate people in these subjects. He has a broad academic background in the areas of biology, chemistry, statistics and education, and has held lecturing positions at the University of Auckland, Cardiff University, Birmingham City University and London South East College.
Dr Phillip Sedgwick (St Georges, University of London)
Philip Sedgwick is a reader in medical statistics and medical education at St. George’s, University of London. He has taught statistics for more than 35 years to students in the healthcare sciences, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. During that time, he has also been the lead statistician in numerous research projects. His particular interest is early-phase clinical trials. In 2009, Philip was commissioned to write weekly for the leading international general medical journal BMJ, which he did in an educational capacity on topics in medical statistics, epidemiology, and research methods. Over six and half years, he produced more than 300 articles that appeared in a series called “Endgames.” In 2018 and 2021, Philip won the Best Contributed Presentation Award in the section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences at the Joint Statistical Meetings - the annual conference of the American Statistical Association. Philip is a international statistics editor for several research journals where his role is an educational one, helping raise awareness about methodology and statistics amongst editors, readers and researchers.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
A101 Samuel Alexander Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00