{"id":691,"date":"2019-04-01T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/?p=691"},"modified":"2019-04-01T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:47:53","slug":"national-centre-leadership-role-for-dr-rachel-mccrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/2019\/04\/01\/national-centre-leadership-role-for-dr-rachel-mccrea\/","title":{"rendered":"National centre leadership role for Dr Rachel McCrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rachel McCrea of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/statistics\/research\/seak.html\">Statistical Ecology @ Kent<\/a> group from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smsas\/\">School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science<\/a> is taking on the\u00a0role of Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncse.org.uk\">National Centre for Statistical Ecology<\/a> (NCSE).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NCSE is a joint research centre which aims to\u00a0<em>&#8220;develop, apply and communicate innovative statistical methods for collecting and\u00a0analysing\u00a0ecological data, thereby improving the understanding and management of wild populations and their environment&#8221;.<\/em>\u00a0 It was established in 2005 and the current consortium unites research excellence across the Universities of Kent, St Andrews, Bath, Bristol, Edinburgh, Essex, Exeter, Glasgow and Sheffield, together with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.\u00a0 A number of project partners are actively involved with the centre, including Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and Marine Scotland.\u00a0The centre also has a considerable number of international members spanning the globe and initiated the world-leading biennial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/isec2020.multiscreensite.com\/\">International Statistical Ecology Conference<\/a>, the next of which will be hosted in Sydney in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rachel commenced this exciting role on 1st April, and together with\u00a0the new\u00a0Deputy Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maths.ed.ac.uk\/school-of-mathematics\/people\/show?person=446\">Professor Ruth King<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0University of Edinburgh, looks forward to driving new NCSE initiatives.\u00a0They have secured funding, jointly with the previous co-directors of the NCSE Professors Steve Buckland and Byron\u00a0Morgan, to host an International Centre for Mathematical Sciences meeting in Edinburgh\u00a0in June 2019\u00a0on the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icms.org.uk\/statisticalchallenges.php\">Addressing Statistical Challenges of Modern Technological Advances<\/a>.\u00a0 This meeting will be used to identify future directions and associated thematic areas of the NCSE to ensure that the centre remains at the forefront of internationally leading statistical ecology research.\u00a0\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rachel McCrea of the Statistical Ecology @ Kent group from the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science is taking on the\u00a0role of Director of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology (NCSE). &nbsp; The NCSE is a joint research centre which aims to\u00a0&#8220;develop, apply and communicate innovative statistical methods for collecting and\u00a0analysing\u00a0ecological data, thereby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40696,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/seak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}