Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS) - Follow on Funding

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The Academy for PhD training in statistics is a collaboration between nine prominent UK University statistics researchgroups, which delivers a basic core of first-year training to PhD students in statistics (including students of statisticalmethodology, applied statistics and applied probability) across the UK. This pooling of academic resources allows us tooffer new PhD students from across the UK a systematic, high quality grounding in the most essential mathematical,computational and statistical techniques, as well as authoritative overviews of important areas of statistical research. TheAcademy thus addresses directly some key concerns of the 2003 EPSRC/CMS International Review of Mathematicsabout the breadth and quality of UK PhD training and specifically the chronic shortage of well-trained researchstatisticians. Its success in doing this has been endorsed by the findings of an EPSRC-sponsored review by DTZ.Presently training is given to an annual cohort of more than 60 first year PhD students, coming from more than 30institutions in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Training is centred on four intensive residential weeks, each week involvingthe teaching of two APTS modules. The continuation of EPSRC funding will allow partial support of travel to APTS weeksfor participating EPSRC PhD students, contribute to preparation and updating of APTS modules, and cover centraladministration costs. This will facilitate the movement of APTS to a self-funding mode at the end of the grant period.