Staff development project - First steps

In the August 2001 issue of MSOR Connections you may have seen that the LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network had been successful in its bid for a staff development project. Full details can be found at http://ltsn.mathstore.ac.uk/ bids/staffdev.PDF. Part of the project was to appoint two consultants, one in mathematics and the other in statistics. I am the mathematics consultant and Warren Gilchrist, of Sheffield Hallam University is the other. Until recently I was a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. The project plan expects the consultants to: Conduct one-one interviews with key staff in selected universities; Collect examples of good practice, paper and electronic based…