Russell Ecob BA MSc Cert. Stat. C. Stat
Russell Ecob is an experienced applied statistician with interests primarily in social, medical and educational research. He has over 30 years experience of working with universities, local authorities as and the Medical Research Council. He has been consulting for over ten years. He has co-authored and co-edited books on applications of statistical methods. He has also authored over 20 articles in academic journals. He has taught statistics at a number of levels (including PhD supervision) as well as organizing meetings, courses and seminars.
Russell is particularly interested in developing and running models for the analysis of longitudinal data in particular for exploring alternative causal structures using latent variable and other models. He has researched weighting and multiple imputation methods. He is working currently with audiologists in investigating lifecourse models of adult hearing loss and, in the criminological sphere, investigating models of influences on delinquency in adolescence. He also works with educational researchers and psychologists in a range of contexts.
He is a Certified Statistician and an active member of the Glasgow local group of the Royal Statistical Society.
Prof Dave Peck
Academic and clinical work.
I worked in UK universities for over twenty years, and spent a similar amount of time in the NHS as a clinical psychologist, mainly in the Highlands of Scotland. I am an Honorary Fellow and Honorary Professor at Scottish universities and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Research interests
My main interests are the use of new technologies in mental health, including telemedicine and computer-guided CBT; alcohol and drug use; the psychological impact of sports injuries; the health effects of relocating on retirement; outcome measures in mental health; common factors in psychological therapies; and the psychological impact of occupational stress. I have obtained numerous research grants as principal investigator.
Examining and supervision
During my career I have had extensive experience as the examiner of research reports, including external examining for clinical doctoral theses at nine universities in the UK and abroad. I have acted as principal supervisor for numerous research projects at undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels.
Advisory work
I have been a member of many working groups, panels and committees for organisations such as the Scottish Government, Basque Government, World Health Organisation (WHO), National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Scottish Inter-Collegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), British Psychological Society (BPS), and British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (BABCP), amongst others. This involved my writing reports and commenting on draft documents.
Publications.
I have published four books, twenty book chapters, and over eighty papers in refereed professional and scientific journals. Other publishing activities include assistant editorship of an international journal, refereeing for papers submitted to journals, and book reviewing.
Key experience
This experience of examining, supervising, writing, editing, and providing advice to high level organisations has given me insight into the difficulties that people often have in conducting and reporting statistical analyses, and in expressing themselves in clear and simple English.