Dr Ainsley Miller

Teaching Associate

Mathematics and Statistics

Personal statement

I am nearly approaching my 10 year Strathclyde anniversary.

I started at Strathclyde as a undergraduate students in 2011 and graduated with a BSc (Hons - First Class) in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics. Following that, I then started my PhD under the supervision of Prof Tony Mulholland, Prof Gareth Pierce and Dr Katy Tant. My PhD was an interdisciplinary project between the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the department of Mathematics and Statistics and the National Physical Laboratory. I successfully defended my PhD Thesis "Reconstructing Spatially Heterogeneous Thermal Maps using Light-based Metrology Sensors" in November 2019.  This collaborative research focused on reducing the measurement errors involved in the manufacture of high value goods. To achieve this an inverse problem was solved using a Bayesian approach. 

In 2019, I began my teaching career at Strathclyde as a Teaching Assistant, I was then promoted to a Teaching Associate in 2020. I am mainly responsible for teaching statistics and at present I teach the introductory statistics module to first year undergraduate students. I also teach Medical Statistics and to keep my maths skills sharp, I also get involved with calculus classes.

 

Prizes and awards

Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award - Teaching Innovation
Recipient
6/2022
Nominee for Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Awards
Recipient
7/2021
Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award - Team Award
Recipient
2021
Best Student who Tutors
Recipient
2019
Finalist at STEM for Britain
Recipient
3/2018
Best presentation by an early stage researcher
Recipient
2017

More prizes and awards

Qualifications

I am a fully qualified Mental Health First Aider and run a Mental Health Support Service every week for students studying Mathematics and Statistics.

 

I am currently working towards my PG Cert in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education. Classes within the PG Cert are accredited by the Higher Education Academy to lead to professional recognition at Associate Fellow of the HEA (AFHEA).

 

Publications

Anxiety around learning R in first year undergraduate students : mathematics vs biomedical sciences students
Miller Ainsley, Pyper Kate
Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2023.2190010
Reconstruction of refractive index maps using photogrammetry
Miller A, Mullholland A J, Tant KMM, Pierce SG, Hughes B, Forbes AB
Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Vol 29, pp. 2696-2718 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1080/17415977.2021.1946533
Positional uncertainty in optical-based metrology systems in large volume manufacturing
Miller Ainsley, Mulholland Anthony J, Pierce Stephen Gareth, Hughes Ben, Forbes Alistair B
Acta IMEKO Vol 7 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.21014/acta_imeko.v7i2.526

More publications

Teaching

Recent teaching activities:

 

Undergraduate courses:

MM104: Statistics and Data Presentation

MM106 & BM110: Essential Statistics

MM116: Mathematics 1c

ME209: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis

MM401: Communicating Mathematics and Statistics

MM415: Medical Statistics

 

Postgraduate taught courses:

MM914: Foundations of Probability and Statistics

MM909/MM927: Medical Statistics

 

Other

MM139: Mathematics for Data Analytics

MM140: PreSessional Mathematics

 

 

 

Professional activities

Anxiety Around Learning R in First Year Undergraduate Students: Mathematics vs Biomedical Sciences Students
Speaker
8/2/2023
SafeTalk
Recipient
15/12/2022
Anxiety Around Learning R in First Year Undergraduate Students: Mathematics vs Biomedical Students
Speaker
13/7/2022
Gender Based Violence - First Responder Level 3
Recipient
5/2022
Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (External organisation)
Member
9/2021
Mental Health First Aider
Recipient
27/5/2021

More professional activities

Projects

Supporting students during their transition to university
Pyper, Kate (Principal Investigator) Miller, Ainsley (Co-investigator) Jack, Eilidh (Co-investigator)
£1000 QAA funded project to employ a student intern to develop surveys which will help to assess discrepancies between the expectations of academics, school teachers, and incoming students. This will help to develop and understanding of the support our transitioning students need to help them succeed at university
10-Jan-2022 - 09-Jan-2024

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Address

Mathematics and Statistics
Livingstone Tower

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