I went to Bristol University in 1995 to study for a BSc in Mathematics with Statistics.
I graduated with a First Class Honours degree and was awarded the Henry Ronald Hasse Prize in 1998.
I returned to the University of Bristol to study for a PhD in Bayesian Model Discrimination in the Analysis of Capture-Recapture and Related Data, under the supervision of Dr Steve Brooks and developed novel methodology for analysing both open and closed capture-recapture data for ecological and epidemiological data, respectively. Following completion of my PhD in 2001,
I continued to collaborate with Steve Brooks, and began a research associateship in September 2001, at the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge.
This work primarily focused upon the analysis of wildlife populations in both the classical and Bayesian frameworks. From 2003-2005 I held an EPSRC postdoctoral research fellowship in Mathematics.
I was appointed as a lecturer in Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews in 2003, and became a reader in 2010. I subsequently left the University of St Andrews to join the University of Edinburgh in 2015.
I am originally from Pontypridd, South Wales, which is situated 12 miles north of Cardiff, the country's capital.
I married, in 1999, to Stuart King, with my previous surname being Langham; and we have two sons. My husband is a Reader in Applied Mathematics and current Director of Teaching in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.
