Staff Profile
Dr Lee Fawcett
Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Associate Dean for Education
- Email: lee.fawcett@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7228
- Personal Website: http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~nlf8
- Address: School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
Herschel Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
Roles and Responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities
Global Director
- International Student Recruitment
- Student Mobility
- Engagement and Partnerships
School Administrative duties
- Peer Mentor Co-ordinator
- Mathematics and Statistics Outreach
Esteem Indicators
- Royal Statistical Society William Guy Lecturer 2019
- Advance HE National Teaching Fellow
Memberships
- Royal Statistical Society
- The International Environmetrics Society
Research
Research Interests
Extremes
- Bayesian Inference for Environmental Extremes
- Extremes of Dependent Processes
Road Safety
- Statistical Modelling of Road Traffic Accidents
- Road Safety Hotspot Prediction
Statistics Education
- Technological Innovations in Statistics Education
- Research-Informed Teaching
Teaching
Postgraduate Teaching (2022-2023)
Undergraduate Teaching (2022-2023)
MAS2903: Introduction to Bayesian Methods
MAS2906: Computational Probability and Statistics with R
MAS3091: Group Project
MAS8391: MMathStat Project
Postgraduate Teaching (2022-2023)
HSS8005: Introduction to Quantitative Methods
Publications
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Articles
- Griffiths B, Fawcett L, Green AC. Bayesian Inference for Solar Flare Extremes. Space Weather 2022, 20(3), e2021SW002886.
- Thorpe N, Fawcett L, Linsley M, Cherry B. Saving lives with safety cameras and statistical analysis. Public Sector Executive 2019, Oct/Nov 2019, 48-49.
- Guo X, Wu L, Zou Y, Fawcett L. Comparative Analysis of Empirical Bayes and Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Hotspot Identification. Transportation Research Record 2019, 2673(7), 111-121.
- Fawcett L. A severe forecast. Significance 2019, 16(6), 14-19.
- Matthews JT, Newman K, Green AC, Fawcett L, Thorpe N, Kremer K. A decision support toolkit to inform road safety investment decisions. Municipal Engineer 2019, 172(1), 53-67.
- Fawcett L. Using interactive Shiny applications to facilitate research-informed learning and teaching. Journal of Statistics Education 2018, 26(1), 2-16.
- Fawcett L, Green AC. Bayesian posterior predictive return levels for environmental extremes. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 2018, 32(8), 2233-2252.
- Fawcett L. The CASE Project: Evaluation of Case-Based Approaches to Learning and Teaching in Statistics Service Courses. Journal of Statistics Education 2017, 25(2), 79-89.
- Fawcett L, Thorpe N, Matthews J, Kremer K. A novel Bayesian hierarchical model for road safety hotspot prediction. Accident Analysis & Prevention 2017, 99(Part A), 262-271.
- Fawcett L, Newman K. The storm of the century! Promoting student enthusiasm for applied statistics. Teaching Statistics 2016, 39(1), 2-13.
- Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Sea-surge and wind speed extremes: optimal estimation strategies for planners and engineers. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 2016, 30(2), 463-480.
- Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Estimating the probability of simultaneous rainfall extremes within a region: a spatial approach. Journal of Applied Statistics 2014, 41(5), 959-976.
- Fawcett L, Thorpe N. Mobile safety cameras: estimating casualty reductions and the demand for secondary healthcare. Journal of Applied Statistics 2013, 40(11), 2385-2406.
- 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.
- Fawcett L, Walshaw D. Estimating return levels from serially dependent extremes. Environmetrics 2012, 23(3), 272-283.
- 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. Bayesian inference for clustered extremes. Extremes 2008, 11(3), 217-233.
- 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, Walshaw D. A hierarchical model for extreme wind speeds. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics 2006, 55(5), 631-646.