Dr Vicki Hodgson
- Senior Teaching Associate (Biostatistics)
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Location
- Centre for Research Informatics Training, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, United Kingdom, Email: vjh33 at cam.ac.uk
About
Vicki’s original background is in cognitive neuroscience, having completed her PhD at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge in 2022. Her thesis used functional MRI and meta-analysis to investigate the overlap between language and executive control networks in the brain, to determine the functional specialisation of the left posterior lateral temporal cortex in particular.
Since early 2023, Vicki has been part of the core CCRIT team, with a mission to improve accessibility and quality of statistical training for the life sciences research community at the University. A large part of her time is spent delivering training, but she also writes new courses to meet the demand and interest of Cambridge researchers, including topics such as mixed effects/hierarchical modelling, survival (time-to-event) analysis, and simulation methods. She has a strong interest in pedagogical scholarship within and beyond Cambridge, and is a Fellow both of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Statistical Society.
Teaching and supervision
2020 - present:
- Core Statistics in R - Training Lead
- Experimental design for statistical analysis - Training Lead
- Linear Mixed Effects Models - Training Lead
- Generalised Linear Models - Training Lead
- Advanced Statistics - Training Lead
- Analysing your own data: a workshop on statistics and experimental design - Training Lead
- Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
- Reproducible Research - Training Lead, Trainer
- An Introduction to MATLAB for biologists - Trainer