Assoc. Prof. Brian Phillips

Associate Professor Brian Phillips works in the Statistics discipline at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, specialising in Social Statistics. Brian was trained as a secondary teacher and taught in Australia and overseas before joining Swinburne.

His main work has involved teaching statistics and SPSS to students with limited mathematical backgrounds. He has been President of the Victoria Branch of the Statistics Society of Australia, is a Past President of the International Association for Statistical Education and has been the principal organiser and editor for a number of International Conferences on Teaching Statistics. He has taught courses for the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) for many years, as well as for NZSSN.