Their research is frequently motivated by practical problems. Continuous interaction between industry and the Statistics Department Staff through consultancies and contract research helps to establish contacts between students and practitioners and leads to the identification of practically important research with a sound theoretical basis. Research can range from development of theory and methods to novel applications and extensions of existing methods to practical problems of interest in a range of disciplines. In addition to the Department's academic staff there are a number of other groups in the University who are working in the theory and application of statistical science and it is possible to arrange joint supervision for students with particular interests. The academic staff of the Department of Statistics covers a wide range of teaching, research and consulting interests.
All academic staff are active in research as outlined below.
They also have extensive consulting experience within the research community at UNSW as well as for leading commercial clients in areas such as financial mathematics, expert witnessing in legal cases, meteorological modelling, epidemiology and market research. International visitors to the Department may lecture in current topics to the Masters students. Professor and Head of Department William T.M. Dunsmuir , F. Dip. Time series analysis of disease counts, statistical modelling of processes in space and time with applications to meteorological and air quality modelling. Senior Lecturers Peter J. Cooke , M Sc NE, MS PhD Stanford.