Discover 45 opportunities in statistics

It's early to start planning for the summer – but if you want to make the most of your time as a student, you need to look ahead! If you have time off between semesters in your undergraduate or masters degree, you can use that time to attend a summer school. These residential courses typically run from between one week and three weeks, and involve teaching on specialist topics, and group workshops too. Plus, they are are great opportunity to network with fellow students and researchers in your field.

By Sofia Izquierdo-Sanchez University of Huddersfield Timberlake Consultants   There was a time when engineers and social scientists thought their fields were too different to combine their research (Black et al., 2010).

It's early to start planning for the summer – but if you want to make the most of your time as a student, you need to look ahead! If you have time off between semesters in your undergraduate or masters degree, you can use that time to attend a summer school. These residential courses typically run from between one week and three weeks, and involve teaching on specialist topics, and group workshops too. Plus, they are are great opportunity to network with fellow students and researchers in your field.

When you're working on interdisciplinary topics, it's extremely helpful to have contact with other students and researchers in related fields. Getting to know people who are working in different academic disciplines to you gives you new perspectives on your research, as well as improving your communication skills and broadening your knowledge. So interdisciplinary summer schools are the ideal chance to interact with other students and get in practise at presenting your work to an interdisciplinary audience.

There are now more online learning options than ever available, including many courses which you can take entirely for free. Whether you want to prepare for your upcoming university course, you need to pick up some extra skills to help with your job, or you are just interested in a subject and want to learn more, there will be an online course which you can take to help you achieve your goals. Today we're covering 10 of the best free online courses in statistics and data analysis. 

Now we're over the hump of winter and looking ahead to sunnier days, the time has come to start considering academic activities for the summer break. Summer schools run by top universities give you the chance to attend lectures and courses conducted by top researchers in your field, to practise skills in small groups or seminars, and to get to know students from other institutions. As well as social activities and the opportunity for travel, you can benefit from making new professional contacts, hearing about the latest research, and building your CV.

Mathematics and Statistics are multidisciplinary sciences which are applicable in different industries and disciplines. From medical studies to research experiments, space projects and social research, a degree in statistics opens a wide range of career opportunities for you.

In previous posts we’ve offered you lists of Top Maths & Stats Departments in Europe. In this post, we’re shifting our focus from the social sciences to highlight the best math departments around the globe.

Mathematics and Statistics are becoming more popular among career options thanks to their interdisciplinary nature. A degree in mathematics and statistics can lead you to good positions in different industries: from researching in the pharmaceutical industry to planning public policies and investment portfolios.

Anyone working as an economist, mathematician, management consultant or researcher is likely to be dealing with numbers on a regular basis. Whether to refute claims, inform decisions or to build evidence to support one’s case, a good command of figures is essential for many professions. In other words, one cannot escape learning and using statistics!

Learning to work with and analyze data is an essential skill for young economists. To be competitive as an economist in the job market, demonstrable skills and experience using analysis and forecasting software are a must. Knowledge of more than one type of statistical software is advantageous when determining which programs are applicable in different environments or to different situations.

Just two days ago Time magazine released a list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Among other prominent figures included in the list is Hans Rosling, a doctor and statistician, who became famous after his “TED talk” in 2006.