New head of statistics
by Geraldine Hinter
UniSA’s
new Director of Statistical Consulting and Research Services, Associate
Professor Irene Hudson, is widely known for her contributions to
biostatistics, health informatics, global climate indicators and wood
science.
The leader of statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Prof Hudson comes to UniSA from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where she was a senior lecturer in the Mathematics and Statistics Department.
At the University of Melbourne Prof Hudson led Australia’s first statistical research group to create a paediatric length of in hospital stay system specific to the patient’s diagnosis.
Her current areas of research include statistical phenology, causal and ecological inference, clinical trials research, brain image prints of character, epidemiology, health environmetrics, and population modelling.
Prof Hudson is a member of the editorial board for Statistical Methods in Medical Research, the Van der Veer Institute for Parkinson’s and Brain Research, the UC Research Centres of Bio-Engineering and Wood Technology.
Prof Hudson’s vision is to build a strong mathematical statistical research and postgraduate profile at UniSA and enhance collaborative research links with UniSA institutes and centres, interlinking statistics, mathematics, industry, health sciences, business and information sciences.