Mark Andrews Nottingham Trent University

Mark Andrews is an Associate Professor of Statistical Methods in the Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. He teaches statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students and is the course leader for the MSc in Behavioural Data Science. He also teaches advanced training courses on statistical methods, data science, and machine learning using R and Python.

Mark has a PhD and MSc in Cognitive Science from Cornell University and was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at University College London, working first in the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and later in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. His research interests include statistical methods in the social and behavioural sciences, computational cognitive science and neuroscience, and the application of mathematical and statistical models to understanding human cognition.

Mark was Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Mathematical, Statistical, and Computing Psychology section and is currently deputy chair of the BPS Statistics and Research Methods Advisory Panel. He is also a committee member of the Royal Statistical Society’s section on teaching statistics. He is the author of “Doing Data Science in R: An Introduction for Social Scientists” (SAGE, 2021).