Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Admissions Officer

Member of the University's Student Opinion Steering Group

SAgE/INTO Liaison

Secretary of the Staff Student Committee

Memberships

Royal Statistical Society
The International Environmetrics Society
ISI
IMS

Research Interests

Extreme Value Theory
Estimation and prediction of extreme wind speeds
Bayesian inference for extremes
Climate change

Esteem Indicators

Invited to give one day short-course in Extreme Value Theory and Applications at the University of British Columbia Okanagen, Canada, June 2008

Given three invited sessions at conferences for the International Environmetrics Society

Invited speaker at the 3rd Nordic-Baltic meeting of the International Biometrics Society

Undergraduate Teaching (2012-2013)

ACC1012: Professional Skills for Accounting and Finance (Semesters 1 and 2) 

ACE2013: Statistics for Marketing and Management (Semester 2)
 

MAS2317: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (Semester 2)

MAS3317: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (Semester 2)

MAS8304: Topics in Statistics (Semester 2) 

MAS8391: MMathStat Project: Estimating Environmental Extremes

MAS8391: MMathStat Project: Evaluating the effectiveness of speed cameras 

• Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Estimating return levels from serially dependent extremes. Environmetrics 2012, 23(3), 272-283.
• Thorpe N, Fawcett L. Linking road casualty and clinical data to assess the effectiveness of mobile safety enforcement cameras: a before and after study. BMJ Open 2012, 2(6), e001304.
• Thorpe N, Fawcett L, Colligan J, Goulbourne LE, McNay A. Mobile Speed Cameras and the Demand for Secondary Healthcare in Northumbria. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership, 2008.
• Fawcett L, Thorpe N. Mobile safety cameras: Estimating casualty reductions and the demand for secondary healthcare. Journal of Applied Statistics 2013. Submitted.
• Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Bayesian inference for clustered extremes. Extremes 2008, 11(3), 217-233.
• Fawcett L, Foster WH, Youd AJ. Using computer based assessments in a large statistics service course. MSOR Connections 2008, 8(3), 43-46.
• Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Improved estimation for temporally clustered extremes. Environmetrics 2007, 18(2), 173-188.
• Fawcett L, Walshaw D. A hierarchical model for extreme wind speeds. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics 2006, 55(5), 631-646.
• Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Markov chain models for extreme wind speeds. Environmetrics 2006, 17(8), 795-809.
• Fawcett L. [PhD Thesis] Statistical Methodology for the Estimation of Environmental Extremes. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: University of Newcastle, 2005. Mathematics and Statistics.
• Padoan SA, Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Modelling weak and strong spatial dependence in rainfall extremes. Journal of Planning and Statistical Inference 2013. In Preparation.