Career Profile

1993-1995          Research Statistician, Health Promotion Wales, Cardiff UK

1995-2001           Medical Statistician, Diabetes Research Unit, Llandough Hospital,  Cardiff UK

2001-2001           Lecturer in Statistics, University of Western Sydney, Australia

2001-2001           Research Statistician, University of Sydney, Australia

2002-2004           Lecturer in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Dept of Epidemiology, University of   Wales College Cardiff, UK

2004-2007           Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Cardiff University Dental School, UK

2007-present     Part-time secondment as Senior Statistician for the South East Wales Trials Unit, Cardiff University

Memberships / External Activities

Fellow of the HEA

Awards / Prizes

Certificate in Teaching Statistics in Higher Education

Teaching Profile

Undergraduate Teaching topics Year 3

• Introduction to SPSS, data entry, cleaning and management, graphing, summary statistics and the Normal distribution
• Introduction to confidence intervals, sampling variation, testing for normality, confidence intervals for paired data
• Probability and hypothesis testing,   paired parametric and non-parametric tests
• Comparson of independent groups, unpaired parametric and non-parametric tests
• Proportions and Caregorical data, Chi-square tests, Relative risks and Odds ratios

Undergraduate Teaching topics Year 4

• Study design
• Statistics for critical appraisal

Postgraduate and Advanced Teaching topics

• Adequacy of statistical information, interpretation of statistical tests, Type I and Type II errors, study planning and power, statistical significance and clinical importance
• Oneway ANOVA, assumptions of ANOVA, model building and checking, post hoc tests
• Two factor ANOVA, fixed and random effects, model building and checking
• Regression, bivariate and multivariate linear regression, assumption checking and model fitting
• Logistic regression, bivariate and multivariate regression

• The analysis of population surveys and technical report writing
• The analysis of health promotion intervention data and writing for publication in health promotion literature
• The analysis of longitudinal clinical data
• Statistical advice and consultancy for clinical research
• The design and analysis of epidemiological and clinical studies
• Conference presentation of statistical and medical research
• The publication of statistical and dental research in dental research literature
• Statistical reviewer for the Journal of Orthodontics