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Dr Elinor Jones
Dr Elinor Jones is a Senior Teaching Fellow, and has recently been promoted to Principal Teaching Fellow, in the Department of Statistical Science at UCL
3 October 2020
Elinor joined UCL as a Teaching Fellow in Statistics in 2014, was promoted to Senior Teaching Fellow in 2016, and was recently promoted to Principal Teaching Fellow, with the promotion taking effect in October 2020. Before this, she was a Statistician at the University of Reading.
Teaching is always the highlight for me as I love seeing students' understanding of the subject develop over the course of a module. Other than that I chair the departmental Board of Examiners, and also run open days for prospective students through my role as one of the department's admissions tutors.
My job is very varied and the staff in the department are extremely friendly and supportive. The students are fantastic, and I really enjoy teaching them. I'm really lucky to have a job that I love. What I really value about this role is the encouragement I've received to do things outside of the department. I run maths sessions for school children through the Royal Institution's Masterclass scheme, and do something similar via the London Mathematical Society's Holgate scheme. I'm also involved with the Royal Statistical Society among other things.
This is providing ample motivation for me to think about how I'll teach my (fairly large) classes next academic year. I'm using the opportunity to be creative in how we teach and assess our students, and enjoying the process of talking to other teaching staff both at UCL and from elsewhere to gather ideas.
Elinor is also currently writing the next edition of the popular textbook "The R book" together with Dr Simon Harden, with the next edition is due to be published next year.