Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

We’re recruiting for a StatML CDT Administrator to support the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistics and Machine Learning (StatML).

📅 Closing date: 12.00 noon (UK time), 6 March 2026
➡️ Details and application information: https://tinyurl.com/2zcadjrc

Wishing everyone in our community a joyful and prosperous start to the Year of the Horse 🐎

May the year ahead bring you good health, happiness, and success in all you do.

📢 Deadline reminder!

We’re recruiting for two Associate Professors (or Professors) of Statistical Quantitative Finance / Financial Econometrics to join us and the Oxford Man Institute.

📅 Closing date: Monday 9 February 2026
➡️ Vacancy particulars: https://tinyurl.com/2xarsd4y

Many congratulations to Professor Christl Donnelly on being elected an inaugural Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, recognising her impactful work in infectious disease epidemiology and statistical science.

Read more:
https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-statistician-elected-fellow-academy-mathematical-sciences

📢 Deadline reminder! The application deadline our Statistics Summer Research Internships is midday tomorrow.

The eight-week programme offers supervised research opportunities for undergraduates, with a bursary and college accommodation provided.

See: https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/statistics-summer-research-internships

We are pleased to announce that Professor Patrick Rebeschini has been appointed to the Professorship of Statistical Science in the Department of Statistics, from 1 February 2026.

Many congratulations to Patrick on this appointment.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Robin Evans has been appointed to the Professorship of Statistics in the Department of Statistics.

Congratulations to Robin on his appointment.

We’re recruiting for two Associate Professors (or Professors) of Statistical Quantitative Finance / Financial Econometrics to join us and the Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI).

📅 Closing date: Monday 9 February 2026 at noon.
➡️ Details and application information: https://tinyurl.com/2xarsd4y

🐔 Re-sharing the below call for backyard poultry keepers in England!

We are undertaking a survey looking at the impacts of avian influenza control measures on backyard poultry keepers in England. If you keep poultry and have fewer than 50 birds we’d love to hear your thoughts on existing control strategies and suggestions for possible future interventions.

🔗 Have your say: https://tinyurl.com/e535naw4