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I am currently a reader in Statistics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews. I joined the university as a lecturer in October 2003 and am primarily based at CREEM (Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling). Additionally, from 2003-2005 I held an EPSRC postdoctoral research fellowship in Mathematics.
I am a member of the executive committee of the EPSRC-funded National Centre for Statistical Ecology (NCSE). This centre represents a focus of UK research within statistical ecology. In adition I am an elected member of the International Biometric Society Council, representing the British and Irish region (2010-2013). I am currently the Principal Investigator on one active EPSRC grant (from June 2009-July 2012). The grant is working with Research Fellows Roland Langrock and Lorenzo Milazzo, co-investigators Len Thomas and Jason Matthiopoulos, and Visiting Researcher Juan Morales, in the development of statistical tools for analysing telemetry data. Brett McClintock also worked as a Research Fellow on this grant from June 2009-May 2011. I am also a co-Investigator of the cross-institutional MRC grant NIQUAD (Nationally Integrated Quantitative Understanding of Addiction Harms) led by Tim Millar at the Uniersity of Manchester. This grant is working with Research Fellow Antony Overstall based at the University of St Andrews. I am a member of the academic steering committee and management group of the EPSRC-funded Scottish Mathematical Sciences Training Centre (2011-13) and stream leader of the Statistics stream within the centre (2011+), having been involved in the teaching of this stream since its inception in 2006.
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I went to Bristol University in 1995 to study for a BSc in Mathematics with Statistics. I graduated with a First Class Honours degree and was awarded the Henry Ronald Hasse Prize in 1998. I returned to the University of Bristol to study for a PhD in Bayesian Model Discrimination in the Analysis of Capture-Recapture and Related Data, under the supervision of Prof. Steve Brooks. Much of this work has been written in the form of papers, including the implementation of Bayesian analyses of both open and closed populations, particularly where there is model uncertainty.
Following completion of my PhD in 2001, I continued to work with Steve Brooks, and began a research associateship in September 2001, at the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. This work primarily focused upon the analysis of wildlife populations in both the classical and Bayesian frameworks, and has resulted in several papers. During my reseach associateship at the Statistical Laboratory, I organised the Young Statistician's Meeting 2003, which was held in Cambridge, jointly between the Statistical Laboratory and MRC Biostatistics Unit. The YSM2003 was jointly organised with Angela Wood, Richard Nixon and Ken Rice at the Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge. From 2004-7 I was a Committee Member of the International Biometric Society, British and Irish Region. I was a member of the organising committee for the International Statistical Ecology Conference 2008 in St Andrews and was on the Conference Programme Committee for the Royal Statistical Society Conference 2009. I was also a committee member of the Royal Statistical Society Environmental Statistics Section (2005-9). I was an Associate Editor for both the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES) (2005-10) and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) (2007-2010). From 2005-2010 I was the British and Irish Biometric Bulletin Correspondent and contributed to the quarterly Biometric Bulletin detailing recent activity within the British and Irish region of the International Biometric Society. I was also a programme committee member for the International Biometric Society Channel Network Conference (2011).
From 2008-10 I was a member of the project management committee of the EPSRC-funded National Centre for Statistical Ecology, which at that time was a joint venture between the Universities of St. Andrews, Kent and Cambridge. The NCSE has now expanded to include the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Glasgow and Sheffield and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. I was also PI on an EPSRC grant (from April 2007-September 2009) working with Research Fellow Sophie Smout and Senior Research Scientist Paddy Pomeroy to develop new advanced methods for analysing complex ecological processes.
I am originally from Pontypridd, South Wales, which is situated 12 miles north of Cardiff, the country's capital. I married, in 1999, to Stuart King, with my previous surname being Langham. My husband obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2007 under the supervision of Professor Andy Woods at the BP Institute for Multiphase Flows, within the University of Cambridge. From Janury 2007 to September 2008 he was a post-doctoral research fellow within the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Dundee. He is currently a Research Fellow with Magda Carr as Principal Investigator within the Vortex Dynamics Research Group of the Applied Maths Division in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews. We had a baby boy, Alexander Thomas King, born on 20th September 2007.
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Dr. Ruth King CREEM The Observatory Buchanan Gardens University of St Andrews St Andrews Fife KY16 9LZ |
Email: ruth-AT-mcs.st-and.ac.uk |