John Marriot

Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE), Nottingham Trent University

This Certificate was developed by the statistics staff of the Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research Subject Centre of the UK Higher Education Academy to provide personal development for teachers of statistics in HE institutions. Institutionally provided staff development almost invariably concerns itself with generic rather than with subject specific issues. The Certificate broke new ground by attempting to address teaching, learning and assessment issues faced by statistics lecturers through statistical examples. The Certificate was developed in cooperation with the Professional Affairs Committee of the Royal Statistical Society and the Society provided accreditation subject to external moderation. In this talk the nature of the RSS Certificate will be described and examples of some of the material used on the certificate will be shown.

 John is visiting Queensland from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) which is based at Nottingham Trent University. The purpose of the visit is to introduce the RSS Certificate in Teaching Statistics in Higher Education to higher education statistics staff in Brisbane and to talk to them about how they might benefit from studying the course material. 

 John has been teaching in higher education since 1972 and has taught both statistics and mathematics at all levels from pre-university professional courses to supervising PhD students. He was seconded to the RSSCSE in 2005 where he has worked on a wide variety of projects including a UK Government funded project looking at the teaching of statistics in schools and a World Bank funded project to advise the Gambian Bureau of statistics on the training of statistics employees. John’s current work is primarily concerned with projects funded by the Maths, Stats and OR Subject Centre of the UK Higher Education Academy and he represents the Academy on the Joint Mathematical Council for the UK.

 John’s research interests outside statistics education are in applications of Bayesian methods, in particular to time series econometrics and model choice problems.

 For more details about the speaker, see http://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/school_research/cpi/staff/5008.html