Dr Robert Cook

Senior Research Fellow

Health, Education, Policing and Sciences

Dr Robert Cook is the Senior Research Fellow in Healthcare Analytics in the school of Health and Social Care. His background is as an experimental scientist and statistician and has delivered projects on staff retention and safety in acute, mental health and emergency response medicine. Robert was a co-applicant and led the analysis on the Health Foundation funded NuRS and AmReS projects, which aim to explore the contributory factors underpinning workforce retention in healthcare in England and its impact on patient safety.

Academic qualifications

PhD in Physics (University of Warwick)

MSc in Statistics with Medical Statistics (University of Sheffield)

MChem in Chemistry (University of Warwick)

Expertise

Data science, data analysis, R, python, and SQL.

for Career Prospects

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2025

for Facilities

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023

of Research Impact is ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Very Considerable’

Research Excellence Framework 2021

of Research is “Internationally Excellent” or “World Leading”

Research Excellence Framework 2021

Four Star Rating

QS Star Ratings 2021