1. The role of a statisticians when working with scientists
Challenges and opportunities

2. Statistics for Sustainable Development
A not-for-profit, social enterprise providing technical support to development initiatives
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3. What do you want to do when you finish your MSc?
Pathways to a professional carrier….
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4. What do we learn while training as statisticians?

5. Components of an applied statistician’s toolbox
Personal communication. Ric Coe (Statistics for Sustainable Development)

6. Components of an applied statistician’s toolbox
Personal communication. Ric Coe (Statistics for Sustainable Development)

7. Components of an applied statistician’s toolbox
The text said something about how the grey area is focus on traditional stats courses. Enlightened ‘modern’ courses started expanding to the blue area. The best courses work on whole of the right hand column. But the green area is what applied statisticians really need, along with understanding the basics of everything in the table.
The other point from it is that occasionally an individual fills the roles of both scientists and statistician but it is rare.    If you are a more common type of statistician then you can only do a good job when working with scientists and that requires communication and negotiation etc skills along with the technical stuff.
Personal communication. Ric Coe (Statistics for Sustainable Development)

8. A diagram of research support functions in a scientific research institute

10. Potential roles of a statistician in a scientific team
Support
Partnership
Leadership
Potential roles of a statistician in a scientific team

11. What additional tools and skills are useful?
Concepts
Systems
Language
Specific scientific knowledge
Size: from small to large ( ≠ big data)
Structure: simple to complex
Location: local to global
Quality: quality control to quality assurance
Data-to-information loops
Data skills
What additional tools and skills are useful?

12. Consultancy skills Listen Ability to ask good questions
Systems thinking
Adapt and apply
Negotiation skills
Bridging
And if you can…be a good writer
Consultancy skills

14. Research methods and agroecological intensification
Requires
Systems perspective
Integrating social and biophysical research
Using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods
Approaches and methods conditioned by
Values of the program
Local context
Local capacity …
… and objectives
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15. What can we contribute to the teams we work with?
Sifting signal from noise
Efficiency
Visualisation and interpretation
Quality assurance
Cross-disciplinary synergies
What can we contribute to the teams we work with?

16. Verbs and nouns
Methods and topics

17. Thanks