Sally McClean

Sally Ida McClean FRSS is a Northern Irish statistician, computer scientist, and operations researcher. She is a professor of mathematics in the school of computing at Ulster University,^[1] and a former president of the Irish Statistical Association. Topics in her research include workforce modeling, health administration, interactive architecture, and survey methodology.

Sally Ida McClean
Nationality	Northern Irish
Occupation(s)	Statistician Computer scientist Operations researcher
Title	Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	Ulster University at Coleraine
Thesis	Stochastic models of manpower planning applied to several British and Irish firms (1976)
Academic advisors	Andrew Young
Academic work
Institutions	Ulster University
Website	Ulster University

Education

McClean was born in Belfast. She earned an MA in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1970 and an MSc in mathematical statistics and operations research from Cardiff University in 1972.^[2] She completed a Ph.D. in 1976 at the Ulster University at Coleraine.^[3][4] Her dissertation, Stochastic models of manpower planning applied to several British and Irish firms, was supervised by Andrew Young.^[4]

Books

McClean's books include:

• Statistical techniques for manpower planning (2nd ed., with David J. Bartholomew and Andrew F. Forbes, Wiley, 1991)
• Questionnaire design: A practical introduction (with Noel Wilson, University of Ulster Press, 1994)

Recognition and service

McClean is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and Fellow of the Operational Research Society.^[2] She was the second president of the Irish Statistical Association, serving as president from 1998 to 2000.^[5]