The core of Compass is the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics, integrated with internal partners from across the University and external partners from industry and government.

Our team of PhD supervisors incorporates world-leading statisticians and data scientists, and experts from the Faculties of Health Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences and Law and Life Sciences.

PhD projects and supervisors are confirmed during the first year of the programme. Full-time research project work starts in October of the second year (after progression from the taught units). Read more about the PhD project allocation process for 2023 here.  

Discover: 

• Student Research Topics for 2019/20
• Student Research Topics for 2020/21 
• Student Research Topics for 2021/22

Our PhD research topics range from statistical theory and methods to collaborations with experimental scientists and businesses.

Bayesian Modelling and Computation

Christophe Andrieu | Mark Beaumont | William Browne | Matteo Fasiolo | Peter Green | Mathieu Gerber | Daniel Lawson | Anthony Lee | Vladislav Tadic | Max Werner | Nick Whiteley | Feng Yu | Dennis Prangle | Robert Allison

Bioinformatics and Genetics

Christopher Andrieu | Daniel Lawson | Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Cybersecurity 

Daniel Lawson | Patrick Rubin-Delanchy | Sidharth Jaggi | Ayalvadi Ganesh

High-Dimensional and Highly-Structured Data

Haeran Cho | Peter Green | Oliver Johnson | Rihuan Ke | Daniel Lawson | Anthony Lee | Henry Reeve | Patrick Rubin-Delanchy | Feng Yu | Sidharth Jaggi

High Performance Computing 

Anthony Lee | Simon McIntosh-Smith | Nick Whiteley | Robert Allison

Imaging

Alin Achim | David Bull | Mark Cannell | Andrew Dowsey | Peter Green | Rihuan Ke | Majid Mirmehdi

Information Theory 

Oliver Johnson | Sidharth Jaggi

Longitudinal Data

William Browne | Matteo Fasiolo | George Leckie | Liz Washbrook

Machine Learning and AI

Nello Cristianini | Peter Flach | Rihuan Ke | Song Liu | Henry Reeve | Patrick Rubin-Delanchy | Nick Whiteley | Max Werner | Laurence Aitchison | Emmanouil Tranos | Robert Allison

Medical Sciences and Causality 

Andrew Dowsey | Dan Lawson | Jonathan Sterne | Kate Tilling | Nicky Welton | Feng Yu

Multilevel Modelling

William Browne | Kelvyn Jones | George Leckie | Levi Wolf

Multiscale Methods

Haeran Cho | Arne Kovac

Networks

Haeran Cho | Sidharth Jaggi | Ayalvadi Ganesh | Emmanouil Tranos

Spatial Statistics

William Browne | Matteo Fasiolo | Kelvyn Jones | Levi Wolf | Max Werner | Emmanouil Tranos

Stochastic Models for Life Sciences

Mark Cannell | Matt Jones 

Times Series

David Bull | Haeran Cho | Matteo Fasiolo | Song Liu | Vlad Tadic | Feng Yu

Uncertainty Assessment and Risk

Jeremy C Phillips | Max Werner