Professor Robert Raeside is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society (CStat)  Member of the Operational research Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) He received his BSC Hons from Napier College under the auspices of the Council for Academic Awards (CNAA  his MSc from the University of Strathclyde and PhD in demographic forecasting from the CNAA in collaboration with the University of Oxford