📋 Tender Overview
Funded Value6416017Funded PeriodApr 19 - Sep 27FunderEPSRCProject StatusActiveProject CategoryTraining GrantProject ReferenceEPS0235691.The COMPASS Centre for Doctoral Training will provide high-calibre cohort-based training for over 55 PhD students in computational statistics and data science. The current disruptive data revolution has revealed new ways of using data to enhance productivity and improve citizens well-being and created responsible effective and transformative ideas that were undreamt of only a few years ago. It is no surprise that the revolution has not only created new classes of data-centred companies but also whole new data science groupings in many existing organizations. Big and complex data are now ubiquitous and fundamental for research and development including in our integrated CDT academic partner disciplines of economics education engineering medicine computer geographical earth and life sciences. Similarly for our external partners businesses such as Adarga CheckRisk EDF GSK SCIEX Shell and Trainline and crucial government agencies such as the Atomic Weapons Establishment GCHQ Office for National Statistics and the UK Space Agency.Exploiting the full potential of big and complex data requires advanced statistical methods and computation working together hence the need for computational statistics and data science. Bristol has long-established world-leading experience in computational statistics a broad base of already engaged and co-creative statistical academic and dynamic external partners excellent facilities and extensive experience of running successful CDTs under the auspices of the Bristol Doctoral College. The societal scientific and economic value of unlocking the potential in data has spurred demand for people trained to PhD level in computational statistics and data science demand dramatically exceeds supply internationally and in the UK. A COMPASS PhD will be highly valued for its focus on advanced technical interdisciplinary and professional training at a time where there are a large and increasing numbers of appealing employment opportunities.COMPASS will recruit the best students from numerate backgrounds and provide multimodal training within and across cohorts. This will include an assessed programme of taught coursework spanning a broad range of core and crossover statistical topics reflecting strong historical and future links to our academic partner disciplines such as causality in medical statistics multilevel modelling in education or Bayesian modelling in genetics.Modern statistical practice typically involves interdisciplinary teams. Cohort and cross-cohort activities are essential for modern doctoral training and permeate the design of COMPASS. We will adopt tried and trusted cohort training methods such as group work group and partner projects Masterclasses and innovative cross-cohort activities such as COMPASS polic
