Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/J500896/1

Title:

Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS) - Follow on Funding

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Samworth, Professor RJ	Woods, Professor D	Bowman, Professor AW
Firth, Professor D	Fearnhead, Professor P	Meinshausen, Dr NF
Johansen, Professor AM	Wood, Professor A	Didelez, Professor V
Wood, Professor SL

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Department:

Statistics

Organisation:

University of Warwick

Scheme:

Training Schools (Non-FEC)-NR1

Starts:

01 October 2011

Ends:

30 September 2016

Value (£):

144,324

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Statistics & Appl. Probability

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

No relevance to Underpinning Sectors

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Panel Date	Panel Name	Outcome
09 Jun 2011	Mathematical Sciences Taught Course Centres	Announced

Summary on Grant Application Form

The Academy for PhD training in statistics is a collaboration between nine prominent UK University statistics research

groups, which delivers a basic core of first-year training to PhD students in statistics (including students of statistical

methodology, applied statistics and applied probability) across the UK. This pooling of academic resources allows us to

offer new PhD students from across the UK a systematic, high quality grounding in the most essential mathematical,

computational and statistical techniques, as well as authoritative overviews of important areas of statistical research. The

Academy thus addresses directly some key concerns of the 2003 EPSRC/CMS International Review of Mathematics

about the breadth and quality of UK PhD training and specifically the chronic shortage of well-trained research

statisticians. Its success in doing this has been endorsed by the findings of an EPSRC-sponsored review by DTZ.

Presently training is given to an annual cohort of more than 60 first year PhD students, coming from more than 30

institutions in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Training is centred on four intensive residential weeks, each week involving

the teaching of two APTS modules. The continuation of EPSRC funding will allow partial support of travel to APTS weeks

for participating EPSRC PhD students, contribute to preparation and updating of APTS modules, and cover central

administration costs. This will facilitate the movement of APTS to a self-funding mode at the end of the grant period.

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Organisation Website:

http://www.warwick.ac.uk