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Miss Cheryl Voake - BSc Wales LCGI CandORS

Overview

person name Position: Postgraduate Student Email: VoakeC@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74199
Extension:
Location: M/0.08

Supervisors

Professor J D Griffiths and Dr J E Williams

Postgraduate start date: April 2008

Thesis Title - "Modelling Trauma Hip Fracture Hospital Activities"

Research Interests

Operational Research (OR), in particular OR applied to healthcare

Simulation

Queueing Theory

Statistics

Teaching

MA0004 Preliminary Mathematics II

Funding

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Research Group

Operational Research

Biography

Recent Presentations:

'Modelling trauma hip fracture patients: the impact on operating theatres and the orthopaedic ward'
ORAHS; Genoa, Italy; July 2010<./p>

‘An Investigation into Transmission Models for MRSA’
Speaking of Science; Cardiff University; May 2010.
ORAHS; Toronto, Canada; July/Aug 2008.

Statistics Workshop - 'An introduction to some techniques available to Operational Researchers'
SCOR; Nottingham University; April 2010.

‘Modelling Trauma Hip Fracture Hospital Activities’
OR50; York University; Sept 2008.
LANCS PhD Symposium; Cardiff Millennium Stadium; January 2009.
Student Conference in Operational Research (SCOR); Lancaster University; March 2009.
EUROXXIII; Bonn, Germany; July 2009.

‘Investigating Trauma Hip Fracture Hospital Activities’
ORAHS; Leuven, Belgium; July 2009.
Health Solutions Wales and Cardiff School of Mathematics joint seminar; School of Maths; July 2009.

Responsibilities:

Committee Member for the Student Conference of Operational Research (SCOR).

Student representative on the Soutrh Wales Operational Research Discussion Society (SWORDS) Committee Panel.

Postgraduate representative on the Scool's Staff-Student Panel.

Prizes:

Velindre HNS Trust Annual R&D Conference.
'Best Newcomer Oral Presentation'; November 2009.

Physical Sciences & Engineering Annual Lecture, Cardiff University.
'Best Poster' (2nd Prize); November 2009.

Speaking of Science Conference, Cardiff University.
'Best Talk' (2nd Prize); May 2010.