We specialise in environmental and epidemiological statistics, sequential clinical trials, Bayesian statistics, smoothing and functional data analysis. Statistical research is the development and application of methods to infer underlying structure from data. Our research in statistics can be arranged under five broad headings. We research the development and application of methods to infer underlying structure from data. We focus on producing models and methods directly useful beyond academic statistics and on theoretical aspects of statistics.In addition to core statistical research, members of the group undertake consultancy work where this has a substantial innovative component.