Program Overview

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Overview

Join us for your MPhil or PhD in Statistics. You'll be supported by experts in your field, who'll act as your supervision team. Research training and development is also available to our postgraduates in this field.

To help you identify a topic and potential supervisor, take a look at our staff specialisms. You can also read about the PhD projects our postgraduate students have worked on. And a list of suggested statistical projects for postgraduate researchers is also available.

Our work can be broken down into the following research themes:

Bayesian methodology for complex models

Big data scalability and computation

Biostatistics and stochastic systems biology

Spatial and environmental statistics

We take on projects funded by:

the Research Councils

major trusts

government departments

the EU

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