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 (2011-2012)

MAS2317: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

MAS3317: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

ACE2013: Statistics for Marketing and Management (Semester 2)

MAS1403: Quantitative Methods for Business Management (Semester 2)

MAS8391: MMathStat Project: Estimating Environmental Extremes

• Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Estimating return levels from serially dependent extremes. Environmetrics 2012, 23(3), 272-283.
• Thorpe N, Fawcett L. Mobile Speed Cameras: What is the 'true' impact on the Demand for Secondary Healthcare?. British Medical Journal: Injury Prevention 2012. Submitted.
• 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.
• Brandt K, Fawcett L, Haldar S, Seal CJ. Changes in markers of cardiovascular disease risk in healthy volunteers consuming increasing doses of either wholegrain wheat or wholegrain rye. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2011.
• Haldar S, Seal CJ, Beckmann M, Fawcett L. Comparison of alkylresorcinols and mammalian lignans as biomarkers of either wholegrain wheat or wholegrain rye intake. British Journal of Nutrition 2011.
• Fawcett L. Bayesian inference for return levels. Environmetrics 2012. In Preparation.
• Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Extreme Values: Statistical Analysis using R. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. In Preparation.
• Fawcett L, Thorpe N. Mobile safety cameras: Estimating casualty reductions and the demand for secondary healthcare. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society 2012. 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. 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.
• Padoan SA, Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Modelling weak and strong spatial dependence in rainfall extremes. Journal of Planning and Statistical Inference 2012. In Preparation.