{"id":1076,"date":"2018-12-05T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:35:23","slug":"statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Lecturer Awarded EPSRC New Investigator Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer in Statistics, Dr Rachel McCrea, from the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS) at the University of Kent, has been awarded a &#8216;New Investigator Grant&#8217; from the\u00a0Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for a project titled,\u00a0`Modeling removal and re-introduction data for improved conservation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In this three-year project Rachel will develop new and\u00a0practical\u00a0statistical tools for conservationists to\u00a0use, which will result in more accurate predictions on the health and sizes of endangered\u00a0animal populations.\u00a0She will be closely collaborating with various animal trusts to\u00a0ensure real impact of her project.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant\/&amp;t=Statistics Lecturer Awarded EPSRC New Investigator Grant' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Statistics Lecturer Awarded EPSRC New Investigator Grant%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant\/&amp;title=Statistics Lecturer Awarded EPSRC New Investigator Grant' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant\/&amp;title=Statistics Lecturer Awarded EPSRC New Investigator Grant' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer in Statistics, Dr Rachel McCrea, from the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS) at the University of Kent, has been awarded a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/statistics-lecturer-awarded-epsrc-new-investigator-grant\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47358,"featured_media":1012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9112,1127,213679],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}