Dr Richard Emsley - personal details

Richard graduated from the Victoria University of Manchester with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Statistics in June 2003.  He was awarded an MRC Studentship to study for a PhD in the Biostatistics Group under the supervision of Professor Graham Dunn and Professor Andrew Pickles. The PhD entitled "Statistical Models of Selection and Causation" was completed in 2007.

He joined the staff of the Biostatistics Group and from October 2006 to September 2009 he worked as a Research Associate on an MRC Methodology Grant investigating the design and methods of analysis of trials of complex interventions in mental health. 

In October 2009, Richard was appointed as a Research Fellow after being awarded a 3 year MRC Career Development Award in Biostatistics to continue aspects of this research.  As part of this Award, he spent four months in 2011 as a visiting researcher at the Program on Causal Inference in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health.  He was awarded an MRC Early Career Centenary Award to extend this Fellowship until April 2013.

In October 2012, Richard became a Lecturer in Biostatistics in the new Centre for Biostatistics.  He is also Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Biostatistics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

Society Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Member of the International Biometric Society (IBS)

Member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics

Member of the Society for Clinical Trials

Committee Memberships

Chairman, Royal Statistical Society Manchester Local Group (2009 - present)

Member, Royal Statistical Society Medical Section Committee (2013 - present)

IBS representative on the Steering Committee  for the International Year of Statistics 2013 (2011 - present)

Member, International Programme Committee for International Biometric Conference 2014 (2011 - present)

Other Group Memberships and Roles

Chair, Steering Group for UK Causal Inference Meeting (UK-CIM) (2012 - present)

Secretary of the Mental Health Research Network Methodology Research Group (2006 - present)

British and Irish Region correspondent for Biometric Bulletin (2010 - present)

Member of the British and Irish Region IBS Committee (2009 - 2012)

Inaugural member of the RSS Young Statisticians' Forum (2005 - 2007)

Associate Faculty member, Faculty 1000 (2009 - present)

BSc (2003) Mathematics with Statistics, Victoria University of Manchester

PhD (2007) Medical Statistics, The University of Manchester

GradStat (2008)

Richard is a Lecturer in Biostatistics in the Centre for Biostatistics.  He currently holds an MRC Early Career Centenary Award and previously held an MRC Career Development Award in Biostatistics.  He is also a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Biostatistics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

Richard teaches on the Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Biostatistics modules of the Masters in Public Health course.  He also contributes to the teaching of fourth-year undergraduate medical students. He has also previously lectured and been module leader on the SPSS module on the Research Methods Programme in the School of Dentistry.