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Amanda G. Chetwynd PFHEA is a British mathematician and statistician specializing in combinatorics and spatial statistics. She is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library at Lancaster University, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.[1]

Education and research

Chetwynd earned a Ph.D. from the Open University in 1985. Her dissertation, Edge-colourings of graphs, was jointly supervised by Anthony Hilton and Robin Wilson.[2] She did postdoctoral research at the University of Stockholm before joining Lancaster University.[3] Her research interests include graph theory, edge coloring, and latin squares in combinatorics, as well as geographical clustering in medical statistics.[1]

Recognition and service

In 2003, Chetwynd won a National Teaching Fellowship recognizing her teaching excellence.[4] She was vice president of the London Mathematical Society in 2005, at a time when university study of mathematics was shrinking, and as vice president encouraged the UK government to counter the decline by providing more funds for mathematics education.[5]

Books

With Peter Diggle, Chetwynd is the author of the books Discrete Mathematics (Modular Mathematics series, Arnold, 1995) and Statistics and Scientific Method: An Introduction for Students and Researchers (Oxford University Press, 2011).[6] With Bob Burn she is the author of A Cascade of Numbers: An Introduction to Number Theory (Arnold, 1995).[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library: Professor Amanda Chetwynd, BSc, MSc, PhD", Senior Officers, Lancaster University, retrieved 2019-06-16
  2. ^ Amanda Chetwynd at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Author biography from Statistics and Scientific Method
  4. ^ Lancaster wins National Teaching Fellowship Prize for 4th Year Running, Lancaster University, 10 June 2003
  5. ^ MacLeod, Donald (11 February 2005), "Course closures creating maths 'wasteland'", The Guardian
  6. ^ Review of Statistics and Scientific Method:
  7. ^ Reviews of A Cascade of Numbers:
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