Dr Rowland Seymour
Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Birmingham and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. I am a statistician developing Bayesian models and computational methods for applications in crime, health, and society.I am a member of the Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC), co-founder of the Comparative Judgement Research Consortium, and serve on the Royal Statistical Society’s Statistics and Law Committee. My research has informed policy internationally and locally, including contributing to legislation on modern slavery in the Philippines and the USA, and the development safeguarding CPD courses for local authorities on violence against women and girls.
News
- February 2026 — New paper to appear in Computational Statistics: A Reduced Basis Decomposition Approach to Efficient Data Collection in Pairwise Comparison Studies.
- January 2026 — New preprint on Neural Methods for Multiple Systems Estimation Models.
- November 2025 — New preprint on Comparative Judgement Interface: A Data Collection Interface for Comparative Judgement Studies.
- October 2025 — Prof Ian Jones has ‘hopped’ to my group through an EPSRC Discipline Hopping grant to work on comparative judgement.
- October 2025 — New preprint on Statistical Crime Linkage: Evaluating approaches within the Covenant for Using AI in Policing.
- June 2025 — I have joined the Home Office Science Advisory Council.
- May 2025 — New paper in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C on a partially pooled network scale-up method model: detailed estimation of child sexual exploitation material trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities.
- March 2025 — New paper in the Annals of Applied Statistics on Comparative judgement modelling to map forced marriage at local levels.