Amanda Chetwynd

Amanda G. Chetwynd PFHEA is a British mathematician and statistician specializing in combinatorics and spatial statistics. She is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and the Library at Lancaster University, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.^[1]

Education and research

Chetwynd earned a Ph.D. from the Open University in 1985. Her dissertation, Edge-colourings of graphs, was jointly supervised by Anthony Hilton and Robin Wilson.^[2] She did postdoctoral research at the Stockholm University before joining Lancaster University.^[3] Her research interests include graph theory, edge coloring, and latin squares in combinatorics, as well as geographical clustering in medical statistics.^[1]

Recognition and service

In 2003, Chetwynd won a National Teaching Fellowship recognizing her teaching excellence.^[4] She was vice president of the London Mathematical Society in 2005, at a time when university study of mathematics was shrinking, and as vice president encouraged the UK government to counter the decline by providing more funds for mathematics education.^[5]

Books

With Peter Diggle, Chetwynd is the author of the books Discrete Mathematics (Modular Mathematics series, Arnold, 1995) and Statistics and Scientific Method: An Introduction for Students and Researchers (Oxford University Press, 2011).^[6] With Bob Burn she is the author of A Cascade of Numbers: An Introduction to Number Theory (Arnold, 1995).^[7]