Rowland Seymour
Assistant Professor in Statistics
University of Birmingham
Assistant Professor in Statistics
University of Birmingham
I am an Assistant Professor in Statistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Birmingham. I am a statistician developing Bayesian methods for applications in social and health sciences. My current interests include developing statistical prevalence estimation methods for different crime types and applications of Bayesian nonparametric methods.
News
March 2025: New paper in the Annals of Applied Statistics on Comparative judgement modelling to map forced marriage at local levels.
December 2024: New paper in the Journal of Applied Statistics on Scalable Bayesian inference for Bradley–Terry models with ties: an application to honour based abuse.
November 2024: New R package speedyBBT, which provides a suite of functions that allow a full, fast, and efficient Bayesian treatment of the Bradley–Terry model.
October 2024: New paper in the Journal of Public Health on Cognitive impairment and exploitation: connecting fragments of a bigger picture through data.
July 2024: New preprint on A partially pooled NSUM model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities.
July 2024: I have become a Visiting Fellow in Modern Slavery Statistics at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab.
April 2024: I appeared in front of the House of Lords Committee on the Modern Slavery Act 2015. A recording and transcript is available here.
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