Staff profile
Overview
Dr Rachel Oughton
Associate Professor, Statistics
Affiliation | Telephone |
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Associate Professor, Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences | +44 (0) 191 33 43095 |
Research interests
- Applied statistics
- Bayesian Statistics
- Modelling uncertainty in complex systems
- Maths education in the early years
Publications
Conference Paper
Journal Article
- Oughton, R., Nichols, K., Bolden, D. S., Dixon-Jones, S., Fearn, S., Darwin, S., Mistry, M., Peyerimhoff, N., & Townsend, A. (2024). Developing ‘deep mathematical thinking’ in geometry with 3- and 4-year-olds: A collaborative study between early years teachers and University-based mathematicians. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 26(3), 306-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2022.2119497
- Oughton, R. H., Wheadon, D. M., Bolden, D. S., Nichols, K., Fearn, S., Darwin, S., Dixon-Jones, S., Mistry, M., Peyerimhoff, N., & Townsend, A. (2023). Going round in circles: Geometry in the early years. Mathematics teaching, 286, 29-34
- Benson, T., Bucher, T., Oughton, R., McCloat, A., Mooney, E., Farrell, S., & Dean, M. (2022). The effects of nutrition and health claims on the nutrient composition of single and subsequent meal servings. Appetite, 176, Article 106105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106105
- Oughton, R., Goldstein, M., & Hemmings, J. (2022). Intermediate Variable Emulation: using internal processes in simulators to build more informative emulators. SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 10(1), 268-293. https://doi.org/10.1137/20m1370902
- Oughton, R. H., Wooff, D. A., Hobbs, R. W., Swarbrick, R. E., & O'Connor, S. A. (2018). A sequential dynamic Bayesian network for pore pressure estimation with uncertainty quantification. Geophysics, 83(2), D27-D39. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2016-0566.1
- Mathias, S., McIntyre, N., & Oughton, R. (2016). A study of non-linearity in rainfall-runoff response using 120 UK catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 540, 423-436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.06.039
- Oughton, R. H., & Craig, P. S. (2016). Hierarchical Emulation: a method for modeling and comparing nested simulators. SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 4(1), 495-519. https://doi.org/10.1137/15m1007914
- Oughton, R. H., Wooff, D. A., & O'Connor, S. A. (2014). A Bayesian shifting method for uncertainty in the open-hole gamma-ray log around casing points. Petroleum Geoscience, 20(4), 375-391. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2014-006
Report
- Qi, X., Menzies, V., Siddiqui, N., Ismail, N., & Oughton, R. (2023). Independent evaluation of the Early Years Conversation Project (EYCP): A two-armed cluster randomised waitlist-controlled trial. Education Endowment Foundation
- Oughton, R., Wooff, D., Hobbs, R., O'Connor, S., & Swarbrick, R. (2015). Quantifying uncertainty in pore pressure estimation using Bayesian networks, with application to use of an offset well. [No known commissioning body]