Who should apply and when The formal requirements are listed above in the Overview. We welcome enquiries from candidates who have a strong quantitative background through education or work experience in any discipline. Individually tailored qualifying programmes can be arranged where appropriate. Students may enrol by February to start in Session 1 or by July to start in Session 2. 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.