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About The Centre
Welcome to the Postgraduate Statistics Centre.
The Postgraduate Statistics Centre encompasses all aspects of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning within the Maths and Stats Department. It is the only UK HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) that uniquely specialises in Postgraduate Statistics.
The Postgraduate Statistics Centre was officially opened on February 21st 2008 by the former president of the Royal Statistical Society, Professor Sir David Cox. The Centre is an innovative building both in terms of its design and of its usage.
You can view Professor Sir Cox's opening lecture, The Role of Statistics in Science and Technology, here (60 minutes)
The Centre is the new home to postgraduate statistics in Lancaster; providing teaching space for our own MSc programmes in statistics and social statistics as well other statistical courses for postgraduates across the university.
Expanding on the department’s existing Short Course programme the Centre is an ESRC Regional Training Centre delivering statistical courses both to other institutions and the private sector.
The 50 seat lecture theatre provides video recording and podcasting facilities allowing teaching to reach beyond the traditional lecture room environment.
Two large state of the art computer laboratories offer a mixture of Windows and Linux environments to suit modern teaching.
An Access Grid Node provides advanced video conferencing facilities allowing academics and students to take part in virtual lectures held across a number of different Universities.
The Consultancy Suite provides one to one mentoring to postgraduates from other disciplines as well as providing training opportunities to our own students.
The first floor of the Centre contains open plan learning zones providing students a quiet space for relaxation and mobile learning.
The building was designed by John McAslan and partners. They have been involved with many high-profile buildings, including the London Roundhouse and the De La Warr pavilion in Behill. Currently they are working on the difficult challenge of redesigning Birmingham New Street Station.
One of the goals given to the architects was to create a building of natural light and space to allow students and staff to interact in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
To reduce its environmental impact the Centre uses solar chimneys to cool the building during the summer and recover heat in the winter. The glass wall allows views of the surrounding parkland and a reed lake provides environmentally sensitive rain drainage.
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