Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I was a Council member of the Royal Statistical Society for four years.

I served as Treasurer for COPS, the UK and Ireland Committee of Professors of Statistics, for over 20 years.

I served as Chair and am Treasurer of the Royal Statistical Society South West Group.

I served for many years on the committees of the General Applications Section (Secretary and Chair).

I was Associate Editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical SocietyD "The Statistician".

I was chairman of the Organising Committee for RSS 2002, which was held in Plymouth. I have also organised other meetings.

I sit on the Advisory Board of the London Taught Course Centre.

Former Chair and current Treasurer of the South West Local Group of the Royal Statistical Society.

Former Treasurer of the UK and Ireland Committee of Professors of Statistics.

I was a Council Member of the Royal Statistical Society for four years.

I was Secretary and Chair of the General Applications Section, Royal Statistical Society for many years.

I was a Committee Member of the Statistical Image Analysis and Processing Study Group.

I have served as a member of the President Nominating Committee, Royal Statistical Society.

I was chairman of the Local Organising Committee for RSS 2002, the international conference of the Royal Statistical Society.

I was invited to be a member of the three person International Review of Research of the Department of Statistical Science, University of Bologna, Italy, 2003.

I have served as an External Examiner at a number of universities (Reading, Oxford, Bath, etc).

I have supervised six successful PhD students.

I have supervised many Italian project students.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I was delighted to be Runner Up for the SSTAR Postgraduate Teacher/Supervisor of the Year Award 2017/18. 

I teach a range of modules and short courses.

I particularly enjoy MATH3702 Statistical Data Modelling and I pleased that we now work with Stan software to perform Bayesian inference.

I am interested in teaching Data Science, using R to improve teaching and learning, visualising student assessment and feedback data, and communicating statistical and scientific ideas to a variety of audience.

I looked after the BSc (Hons) Exchange: Maths/Stats.

Further details are available upon request. Thank you.

I play the flute.  I lived and worked in Italy and can speak good Italian.