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Hear my name: https://namedrop.io/katiesevern
Hi I’m an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences. I am a statistician hence I love working with data, developing new statistical methods and using my statistical knowledge on real world challenges. I am also a big advocate for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and am involved/lead many initiatives to improve inclusion within academia, maths and STEM (and just in general as well!). I also really enjoy teaching and improving student experience, I currently teach first years introductory statistics and fourth years statistical machine learning module, have pastoral responsibilities to my tutees and supervise dissertations and PhD students. I am a part of the Maths Observatory, researching the maths pipeline
I love chatting so if you are interested to work with me or find out more please do drop me an email: katie.severn@nottingham.ac.uk.
Please see my official University of Nottingham staff page for more information.
Research Summary
Current areas of interest:
- Inclusivity in Mathematics education
- Student belonging
- Statistical network analysis,
- Statistical network analysis,
- Manifold valued data analysis,
- Functional data analysis,
- Machine learning,
- Text analysis,
- Statistics for social good
Code for my recent paper, manifold valued data analysis of samples of networks with applications in corpus linguistics, can be found here
EDI activity
- Led UoN school of mathematical sciences Athena Swan successful silver submission (2024)
- A part of the writing team for UoN’s gold institutional Athena Swan award (2023)
- A member of the London Mathematical Societies Women and Diversity committee
- Co-founder and editor of Women and Pride in Maths newsletter
- Advisory board member for EPSRC equity in funding review
- Women in Tech 100 award winner 2020
Contact
Room B20 Mathematical Sciences Building
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK
Telephone
0115 8467413
In my spare time I like spending time with my cat Lilo, or the foster kittens I look after for an animal rescue.
