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Staff Profile

Dr Joe Matthews

Senior Lecturer

Background

I am a Senior Lecturer in Statistical Data Science at Newcastle University. My role is primarily student facing, teaching on a variety of undergraduate and masters level modules in statistics and data science, in addition to project supervision.


My administrative roles include Academic Lead for Employability and Enterprise, where I am responsible for boosting the employability of our students, through events and workshops with graduate employers, as well as general skills training for our students. I am also the skills lead for the school, responsible for developing CPD training on topics in mathematics, statistics and physics to be delivered to our industry partners.

Research

I am interested in all areas of applied statistics, using statistical methods to solve real world problems.


My main areas of interest involve statistical methodology for road safety analysis, which formed an impact case study submission for REF2018.


I have worked on statistical consultancy projects on a variety of areas, including biomedical engineering, electrification, and government policy, and have supervised PhD students on topics ranging from civil engineering, streaming data analytics, and geographic isolation.


In addition I have a keen interest in data science pedagogy, and am a member of the Digital Learning research group, and the Sports Modelling research group.

Teaching

Current Teaching:

  • CSC8631/CSC8643 Data Management and Exploratory Data Analysis
  • MAS3091 Group Project


Historic Teaching:

  • MAS8403 Statistical Foundations of Data Science
  • MAS8404 Statistical Learning for Data Science
  • MAS8405 Bayesian Data Analysis
  • MAS8382 Time Series Data
  • MAS8391 MMathStat Project
  • ACE2069 Dissertation and Research Preparation


In addition I frequently deliver training courses to industry on various topics in statistics and data science as part of NU Solve.


Publications