SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, STATISTIC AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF KENT
Lecturer in Statistics (Ref: STM0528)
Closing date: 8 February 2015
We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Statistics for a fixed term of
one year and full time. The successful candidate will be expected to
contribute to both teaching and research within the Statistics Group.
Teaching may involve undergraduate and/or postgraduate programmes. The
successful candidate will have a track record in research and will be
expected to enhance the Statistics Group by their individual
contributions and through interactions with other members of the Group.
The Statistics Group at Kent consists of 3 Professors, 3 Senior
Lecturers and 7 Lecturers, one of whom currently has a NERC Fellowship.
The research interests of the Statistics Group cover a wide spectrum,
including both methodological and applied work. The main areas of
emphasis are Bayesian methods, particularly Bayesian non-parametrics and
MCMC methods, biological and ecological statistics, including strong
involvement in the National Centre for Statistical Ecology
(http://www.ncse.org.uk), shape statistics, financial econometrics,
genetics, neuroimaging, multivariate methods and non-parametric regression.
The Statistics Group is part of the School of Mathematics, Statistics
and Actuarial Science, which has approximately 55 full-time academic
staff and offers a variety of UG and PG degrees, with over 1000 current
students. As well as a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, we have MSc
programmes in Statistics and Statistics with Finance.
As part of the Faculty of Sciences, the School has an Institutional
Bronze Athena SWAN Award. With the aim of further embedding equal
opportunities for women within its working practices, the School has
recently gained its own individual Athena SWAN Bronze award and is now
starting to work towards an application for the Silver award.
Applicants should hold a PhD in a relevant field, and be able to teach
at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and will also be required
to undertake some administrative duties.
For full details of the role and selection criteria please refer to
Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Professor
Martin Ridout, Tel: +44 (0) 1227-827857 (direct line), E-mail:
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(direct line), E-mail: [log in to unmask] or Professor Jian
Zhang. Tel: +44 (0) 1227-823648 (direct line), E-mail:
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Further Information
Closing date for applications: 8 February 2015
Interviews are to be held: 9 March 2015
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