Who we Are and What we Do
To some we are statistical analysts, to others we are data scientists or statistical consultants. Whatever terminology you prefer, what characterises and drives us is identifying and using the best statistical tools to achieve greater understanding, improve decision making and solve practical problems for our clients.
Our aim is always to deliver high quality products and services for our clients and we are especially happy to help clients develop internal expertise so that they can understand and use statistical techniques themselves.
We have a core team of statistical consultants who are all chartered statisticians. They blend exceptional academic credentials with a wealth of commercial experience applying statistical analyses to real world issues and challenges across our entire portfolio and to all sectors.
Our in-house Consultants
Lynsey McColl
Managing Director
Lynsey is the Managing Director of Select Statistics. Joining the company in 2012, she is experienced in working in a wide range of commercial and public sector real-world problems. Lynsey is a Chartered Statistician with both a Master's Degree and PhD in Statistics.
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Director and Founder
Steve is company director and founder and has a wealth of academic and commercial experience. Former Professor of Statistics at Cambridge, he's since gained over 10 year's commercial experience ranging from retail analytics to legal work.
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Senior Statistical Consultant
Sarah is a Chartered Statistician with special expertise in medical statistics. Sarah has an MSc in Statistics and spent four years working for Sheffield University's Statistical Services Unit before joining the team in 2012.
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Senior Statistical Consultant
Jo is a Chartered Statistician and has an MSc in Statistics. Before joining the team in 2018, she spent 20 years working as a Senior Statistician at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), specialising in analysing pupil and teacher surveys, student assessments and data from the National Pupil Database (NPD).
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The Select Network
Occasionally project delivery is enhanced by drawing on the specific knowledge or experience of freelance consultants from leading universities and research organisations. The freelance consultants we use are leaders in their field and each specialises in a particular area. However large, specific or unusual your statistical challenge might be, we have the skills and experience you need.
All project work is co-ordinated and managed by Select to ensure consistently high standards of communication and customer service.
Freelance Consultant Profiles
Here are the profiles of a few of the members of the Select Network:
Dr Kim Cocks
Freelance Medical Statistician
Kim is a chartered medical statistician with more than 15 years’ experience in pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, independent consultancy and academia.
read moreHenry Burroughs
Freelance Statistician
Henry is a statistical consultant specialising in the analysis of survey and operational data to inform business decisions. His statistical expertise includes market research, retail analytics and medical statistics.
read moreDr Nicky Wright
Freelance Statistician
Nicky is an independent statistical consultant with more than 15 years' experience of providing statistical advice, statistical analyses and interpretation of statistical results to clients. Clients include government departments, universities and pharmaceutical companies.
read moreDr Luciana Dalla Valle
Freelance Statistician
Lecturer in Statistics, Luciana has 9 years' experience in statistical training and consultancy. Luciana's consultancy expertise covers the areas of credit and operational risk analysis and marketing.
read moreDr Kathy Seymour
Freelance Research Consultant
Kathy's expertise covers both quantitative (e.g., surveys) and qualitative (e.g., interviews, focus groups, textual analyses) methods. Kathy has undertaken social and educational research for many schools, universities, health services, local authorities and community groups.
read moreVasilis Nikolaou
Freelance Statistician
Vasilis has considerable experience both as a medical statistician and in the field of official statistics. His interests also include Bayesian and sports statistics.
read moreAllan Baird
Freelance Statistician
Allan has considerable experience working for government departments leading statistical analyses of well-being, government and environmental accounts, productivity, community safety (crime, justice, drugs and fire) and education.
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