We have a strong international reputation for making original contributions to Bayesian methodology, bioinformatics and biostatistics. We invite postgraduate research proposals in any of these three areas. Join us for your MPhil or PhD in Statistics. You'll be supported by experts in your field, who'll act as your supervision team. Research training and development is also available to our postgraduates in this field.To help you identify a topic and potential supervisor, take a look at our staff specialisms. You can also read about the PhD projects our postgraduate students have worked on. And a list of suggested statistical projects for postgraduate researchers is also available.Our work can be broken down into the following research themes:bayesian methodology for complex modelsbig data scalability and computationbiostatistics and stochastic systems biologyspatial and environmental statisticsWe take on projects funded by:research councilsmajor trustsgovernment departmentsthe EU