Developing a statistical advisory service through effective partnerships

A paper from the 2013 STEM Annual Conference.

Statistical Advisory Services are an innovative and valued approach to providing statistical advice centrally to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students. This paper reflects on the experiences of a new UK university in developing such a service through a HE STEM Practice Transfer Adopters partnership project. The Project’s adopted strategies to partner with other university stakeholders are evaluated. In particular partnerships with faculty- based staff and running staff development training courses are identified as effective development strategies.