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Health Methodology Research is part of the Health Sciences Research Group
within the School of Community Based Medicine
Health Methodology

Biostatistics

Jean McFarlane building

Biostatistics Group

The Biostatistics Group at Manchester has developed an international reputation for innovative statistical research, excellent teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration since its inception in 1997.

The Group is the professional focus for all medical statisticians within the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, and also holds half-yearly, half-day public seminars.

The Group is located in the Jean McFarlane Building, shown above, on the main University campus.

Latest news, vacancies and forthcoming events
  • The next Biostatistics Group seminars will take place on Wednesday 14th March 2012 on the topic of Modern design issues in randomised controlled trials. For more information, see Events and seminars
  • Professor Graham Dunn and Dr Richard Emsley will be presenting a workshop on "Correlations and Causes in Psychotherapy" at the NIHR Mental Health Research Network National Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25th April. The full programme can be found at: MHRN National Scientific Meeting Programme
  • Three fully-funded PhD Studentships are available linked to staff in the Biostatistics Group. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 6th March 2012. For more details, see News and vacancies

Biostatistics research

Primarily funded by the UK Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research, the Biostatistics Group's research includes learning more from randomised trials of complex interventions, measurement error, design efficiency and reliability, meta-analysis, statistical modelling and statistical methods in observational epidemiology. For more information, please view:

Statistical support and teaching

The Group teaches the MSc in Biostatistics in conjunction with the School of Mathematics. For more information on this course, please view:

The Group also contains members of the NIHR Research Design Service for the North West, which provides free advice on research design to researchers in the North West developing proposals for applied health or social care research.

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