Institutes
Table of Contents
Office for National Statistics
What is the situation with software on the SRS?
How do I get results out of the SRS?
- Prepare results which satisfy statistical disclosure control
rules and put them in the "Ready for Checking" directory in a
directory with the name
YYYY_MM_DD_<descriptivename>_v1. - Include a completed copy of the output request form (which you can find in the SRS project folder.)
- Email
statistical.support@ons.gov.ukwith a subject "[date] Output request for project [number]". "The email body should note project number, name of folder for output, and any useful context or considerations that may assist SRS officers." - If they are approved, the output will be emailed to you. Remember
to notify the SRS Impact team (
IDS.impact@ons.gov.uk) if results are publised!
What file types are acceptable for SRS output and ingestion?
Stick to .R, .csv, and .txt.
Only very common file types are supported. But there are some
surprisingly common ones that are not included such as .json, and
.md and .rmd.
For code, you are pretty much limited to .R files, and these need to
have clear comments about the script's purpose/use and cannot contain
any data or system information.
How do I contact the SRS team?
The SRS guidance says
- For outputs requests and queries: email statistical.support@ons.gov.uk
- For ingests, transfers and all other SRS requests and queries: email srs.customer.support@ons.gov.uk
Cambridge
How do I get my payslips?
Log into the MRC BSU intranet and follow the links for the HR pages.
How do I book annual leave?
Log into timetastic and select the dates.
How to access to New York Times, Financial Times etc.
Use the University library service to access the Dow Jones Factiva database which has all their articles index.
How do I access the instance of RStudio run the the BSU?
Point your browser to https://rstudio.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/ and log in with the same credentials you use to access Brahms.
Melbourne
Verification of Qualification
The University of Melbourne has a service to verify qualifications here. Using the free online Verification of Qualification service allows anyone to check if someone has completed a University of Melbourne qualification/s. The service lists the names of the qualification/s, and the year that the qualification/s was conferred.
VPN
There are some notes on how to connect to the VPN here. The takeaway
is that you need to use GlobalProtect VPN on linux and the portal is
vpn.unimelb.edu.au.
GR desks
It has been proposed students should register for a desk every 6 months.
Vacation Scholarships Program
- University of Melbourne
- School page
- AMSI
- https://srs.amsi.org.au/
- ANU
- https://science.anu.edu.au/study/summer-research-scholarship-program
- Cancer Council Victoria
- https://www.cancervic.org.au/research/grants/research_sum_vacation_studentships
Printing
You can print via the web portal available from the following link:
Key dates
These dates are not definitive, please refer to the official source at LINK.
| Year | Activity | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Semester 2 | Monday 22 July | Sunday 20 October |
| 2024 | Semester 1 | Monday 26 February | Sunday 26 May |
| 2024 | Summer term | Tuesday 2 January | Sunday 25 February |
| 2023 | Monday 30 October | Friday 17 November | |
| 2023 | Monday 24 July | Sunday 22 October | |
| 2023 | Monday 5 June | Friday 23 June | |
| 2023 | Monday 27 February | Sunday 28 May | |
| 2023 | Tuesday 3 January | Sunday 26 February |
Biological Modelling and Simulation (MAST30032)
Oxford
Key dates
| Year | Term | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Sunday 9 October | Saturday 3 December | |
| 2022 | Sunday 24 April | Saturday 18 June | |
| 2022 | Sunday 16 January | Saturday 12 March |
Git, GitHub and Reproducible Research (2022 Hilary Michaelmas)
This is a workshop looking at how git and GitHub can be used to assist in the pursuit of reproducible research.
Applied Analytical Statistics (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023?)
Timetable
THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL TIMES
- Lectures: 13:00–15:00 on Fridays.
- Tutorials: 10:00–11:00 and 11:00–12:00 on Thursdays
Tutorials and practicals
All course materials are available on the course canvas page https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/72757. The notebooks for the practicals are hosted on github. If you find any errors in them, please create an issue detailing the problem and if you have one, a proposed solution.