Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

• School of Mathematics & Statistics Director of Recruitment and Admissions
• School of Mathematics & Statistics Admissions Officer
  

Committee Chair 

• School Recruitment Committee
• University Recap Steering Group

 Committee Membership

• School Management Committee
• School e-learning and IT Committee 
• School Teaching and Learning Committee
• Faculty Recruitment Committee
• e-Learning Steering Group 
• VLE Steering Group
• Undergradu​ate Recruitmen​t Strategy Steering Group
• University Fair Access Committee
• Internal Subject Review Panel
• Standing Committee for Programme Approval

External Committee Membership

• Realising Opportunities Advisory Board 

Teaching for 2011-12

• MAS2304/3304 Foundations of Probability
• PSY2010 Statistics for Experimental Psychology
• MAS1342/2342 Introduction to Statistics 

 Other courses taught:

• MAS131/231: Introduction to Probability and Statistics (Semester 2 2004-2010)
• MAS365: Queueing systems (Semester 2 2001-2004)
• MAS233/633: Statistical Methods (Semester 1 2003-2004)
• MAS234/634: Applied Probability (Semester 2 2001-2003)
• MAS237/637: Networks and Decision Making (Semester 1 2001-02)
• MAS238/638: Quality Management (Semester 2 2000-01)

Recent MMathStat project students:

• Laura Joy: Threshold policies for multiserver queueing systems, 2011
• Gavin Whitaker: Statistical models for the prediction of football matches, 2011
• Ben Nichols: Statistical models for the prediction of football matches, 2010
• Robert Jardine: Statistical models for the prediction of football matches, 2009
• Duncan Smith: Analysis of call centre data, 2005
• Michael Wood: The design of a course in the history of statistics/probability, 2004
• Fay Pickup: The history of statistics/probability 1654-1754, 2003
• Daniel Wass: The repairman problem, 2003
• Katie Barnes: Contributions to the Normal distribution, 2002
• Mourad Ketani: Queueing systems , 2002

Research Interests

• Stochastic optimisation
• Queueing theory
• Achievable region approaches to stochastic optimisation
• Bandit problems
• Dynamic treatment regimes
• Analysis of sports data

• Henderson R, Ansell P, Alshibani D. Optimal dynamic treatment methods. Revstat Statistical Journal 2011, 9(1), 19-36.
• Cloke DJ, Ansell PS, Avery PJ, Deehan D. Ankle injuries in football academies: a three centre prospective study. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2011, 45, 702-708.
• Henderson R, Ansell PS, Alsibani D. Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimes. Biometrics 2010, 66(4), 1192-1201.
• Glazebrook KD, Mitchell HM, Ansell PS. Index policies for the maintenance of a collection of machines by a set of repairmen. European Journal of Operational Research 2005, 165(1), 267-284.
• Glazebrook KD, Ansell PS, Dunn RT, Lumley RR. On the optimal allocation of service to impatient tasks. Journal of Applied Probability 2004, 41(1), 51-72.
• Ansell PS, Glazebrook KD, Kirkbride C. Generalised 'join the shortest queue' policies for the dynamic routing of jobs to multi-class queues. Journal of the Operational Research Society 2003, 54(4), 379-389.
• Glazebrook KD, Lumley RR, Ansell PS. Index Heuristics for Multiclass M/G/1 Systems with Nonpreemptive Service and Convex Holding Costs. Queueing Systems 2003, 45(2), 81-111.
• Ansell PS, Glazebrook KD, Nino-Mora J, OKeeffe M. Whittle’s index policy for a multi-class queueing system with convex holding costs. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 2003, 57(1), 21-39.
• Ansell PS, Glazebroo KD, Mitrani I. Threshold policies for a single-server queuing network. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 2001, 15(1), 15-33.
• Glazebrook KD, Nino-Mora J, Ansell PS. Index policies for a class of discounted restless bandits. Advances in Applied Probability 2002, 34(4), 754-774.
• Glazebrook KD, Lumley RR, Ansell PS, Nino-Mora J. Optimal policies for single class M/G/1 systems with a charge for service and index heuristics for multi-class systems with general holding costs. submitted for publication 2002.