Also known as Ruth Wrightson, I am an epidemiologist whose main areas of research are the genetic, hormonal and lifestyle determinants of cancer, particularly cancers of the breast and prostate. I lead a study of the effects of shift work and circadian rhythms on disease, funded by the Health and Safety Executive.

I am closely involved in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), and am a member of the international Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium.

I have published on findings from post-GWAS analyses including a study of gene environment interactions in relation to breast cancer risk in the Million Women Study. Recent papers have also examined the influence of phyto-oestrogens on cancer risk. I am also a member of the European Food Safety Authority’s Working Group on Isoflavones. 

My research is aimed at improving our understanding of the dynamics of long-term climate change by exploring the mechanisms through which environmental processes are recorded within sedimentary records.

Specifically, I am interested in the isotope geochemistry of rain and lake waters and the inorganic and organic compounds deposited within lake sediments.

At Oxford, I am investigating the incorporation of oxygen and silicon isotope signatures into the silica frustules (shells) of diatoms – ubiquitous lake and marine phytoplankton – using culture experiments. I am a principal investigator in the fledgling British Isotopes in Rainfall Project and in two NERC supported monitoring programmes at Rostherne Mere (Cheshire) and Lochnagar (Aberdeenshire). I am a member of the international Suigetsu Varves 2006 Project, which aims to understand the nature and timing of variability in the East Asian Monsoon during glacial-interglacial climate change. 

My research focuses on the study of matter in extreme conditions using both the world's most powerful conventional lasers as well as free-electron laser X-ray sources. My goal is to recreate in a controlled fashion, and study, well-defined systems at extreme temperatures and pressures, such as those present throughout the Universe in the centre of giant planets and within stars, but in a laboratory setting. I also work on the computational investigation of electronic structure in dense plasmas and on light-matter interactions using several different techniques and codes, ranging from atomic kinetics to density functional theory and molecular dynamics.

I currently hold an EPSRC postdoctoral position at the Atomic and Laser Physics Department, and a non-stipendiary lectureship at Merton College, where I tutor the third year undergraduate Condensed Matter Physics course.

I am a physical meteorologist working on the subject of model uncertainty in weather and climate predictions. I hold a Research Fellowship from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). My general research interests include the predictability of weather and near- and long-term climate; the issue of model uncertainty in forecast models and the seamless prediction approach to combine weather and climate predictions.

I also work at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Reading.

I am a Jill Hart/Wolfson Early Career Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology. I am currently responsible for teaching Old Iranian Languages at Oxford. Among my general research interests are Anatolian and Iranian Philology, Indo-European Comparative Linguistics, and reconstruction of language coexistence in ancient societies.

By now I have published about 70 research papers and a monograph “Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language” (2010). I am currently working on the problems of Sogdian etymology, linguistic contacts between Elamite and Old Persian, Indo-Iranian reflexes of Indo-European statives and the structure of Hittite/Luvian onomastics. 

I am studying the religious and social development of the Silures (later Glywysinga) of South Wales and South West Herefordshire.

This is a study of archaeological sites, history, onomastics and other relevant material. This is carried out in a way as to recognize long-term developments in society through spacial analysis from the later Bronze Age through to the end of the early medieval period.

Within this I will consider religious sites and how they functioned within a wider social landscape. This work draws upon ideas of Gidden's 'structuration' and Ingold's 'taskscapes', which are essentially the same things. 

I am interested in analysis, numerics and modeling of multi-scale problems. Recently, I have been working on numerical homogenization for partial differential equations with non-separable scales, and atomistic/continuum coupling method for crystalline solids with defects.

I am at present revising for publication a monograph with the provisional title 'A World Laid Bare: The Unsettling Languages of J.M. Coetzee'. I teach undergraduate classes on postcolonial writing and theory, and offer a course on Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora to students in both the post-1900 English MSt and African Studies MSc programmes.

My next research project will focus on literary exiles of the Cold War, such as Vladimir Nabokov and Richard Wright.