Workshop report… Engaging students in learning statistics

Statistics plays an important role in the research methodologies knowledge generation and solving of data-driven problems in most subjects. It is taught across a wide range of academic disciplines at undergraduate and graduate levels in the UK and elsewhere. Traditionally in the UK the statistics courses that were taught outside mathematics and statistics departments were delivered as so-called ‘service teaching’ through mathematical sciences groups within those departments where colleagues who did the statistics teaching may or may not have been qualified in statistics.