Dr Becca Wilson

My research publications below are grouped by research area. A full list including citations is available on Google Scholar.


Peer-reviewed articles

Fortier, I., et al., (2022). Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: Key elements to consider. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S2040174422000460

Holleyman, R., Barnard, S., Bauer-Staeb, C., Hughes, A., Dunn, S., Fox, S., Newton, J., Fitzpatrick, J., Waller, Z., Deehan, D., Charlett, A., Gregson, C., Wilson, R., Fryers, P., Goldblatt, P. and Burton, P. (2022). Adjusting Expected Deaths for Mortality Displacement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Model Based Counterfactual Approach at the Level of Individuals. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4144980

Vrijheid, M et al., (2021). Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE). Environmental Epidemiology, Volume 5, Issue 5, pp. 166 doi: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000166

Avraam, D., Wilson, R. C., Butters, O. et. al, (2021). Privacy preserving data visualizations. EPJ Data Science. 10,2. doi: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00257-4

Butters, O.W., Wilson, R.C., Garner H. and Burton T.W.Y. (2021). PUblications Metadata Augmentation (PUMA) pipeline [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]F1000Research. 9:1095. doi: /10.12688/f1000research.25484.2

Butters, O., Wilson, R. C. and Burton, P. (2020). Recognizing, reporting and reducing the data curation debt of cohort studies. International Journal of Epidemiology. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa087.

Pastorino, S., Bishop, T., Crozier, S.R., Granström, C., Kordas, K., Küpers, L.K., O’Brien, E., Polanska, K., Sauder, K.A., Zafarmand, M.H., Wilson, R.C. and 18 other co-authors. (2019). Associations between maternal physical activity in early and late pregnancy and offspring birth size: remote federated individual level meta-analysis from eight cohort studies. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15476

Butters O, Ismail A, Thompson S and Wilson, R. (2018) Generation of a cleaned dataset listing Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children peer-reviewed publications to 2015 [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research 2018, 3:161. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14986.1

Avraam D., Wilson, R.C., and Burton P. (2017). Synthetic ALSPAC longitudinal datasets for the Big Data VR project. [version 1; referees: 3 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 2:74. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.12441.1

Wilson, R.C., Butters, O. W., Avraam, D., Baker, J., Tedds, J., Turner, A., Murtagh, M. and Burton, P. (2017). DataSHIELD – moving in new directions and dimensions. Data Science Journal 16, p21. doi: 10.5334/dsj-2017-021

Murtagh, M.J., Minion, J.T., Turner, A., Wilson, R.C. et al., (2017). The ECOUTER methodology for stakeholder engagement in translational research. BMC Medical Ethics. doi: 10.1186/s12910-017-0167-z

Butters, O.W., Issa, S….Wilson, R.C., Burton, P.R. and Tedds, J.A. (2016). The Biomedical Research Infrastructure Software as a Service Kit (BRISSKit): technical description [version 1; peer review: 3 approved with reservations]. F1000Research, 5:1905. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8736.1

Wilson, R.C., Butters, O.W., Clark, T. et al., (2016). Digital methodology to implement the ECOUTER engagement process [version 1; referees: 2 approved]. F1000Research, 5:1307. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8786.1

Gaye, A…Wilson, R.C., and 40 co-authors.(2014). DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data, not the data to the analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu188

Brown, A., Merket, J. and Wilson, R. C.(2014).Build your own particle accelerator. Science in School, Issue 30.

Muller, C. L., Roberts, S., Wilson, R. C., Remedios, J. J., Illingworth, S. Graves, R., Trent, T., Henderson, J., Wilkinson, J., Wilkinson, M. and Desai, A. (2013). The Blue Marble: A model for primary school STEM outreach. IoP Physics Education, Vol. 48, Number 2. doi: 10.1088/0031-9120/48/2/176

Wilson, R.C., Fleming, Z.F., Monks, P.S., Clain, G., Henne, S., Konovalov, I., Szopa, S. and Menut, L. (2012). Have primary emission reduction measures reduced ozone across Europe? An analysis of European rural background ozone trends 1996-2005. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 437-454. doi: 10.5194/acp-12-437-2012

Findings of this paper are reported in The EU Referendum and the UK Environment: An Expert Review. This policy document reviewed the academic evidence on how EU membership has influenced UK environmental policies.

Methodology developed in this paper is used in the following policy report Hayes, E. et al. (2014)Services to assess the reasons for non-compliance of ozone target value set by Directive 2008/50/EC and potential for air quality improvement in relation to ozone pollution: Task 4-Assessment of the factors responsible for any projected non-compliance with air quality target values for ozone by the dates foreseen in the Directive 2008/50/EC.<

This research is cited in the policy report Fowler, D et al., (2013) Research findings in support of the EU Air Quality Review Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 108pp.

This paper was highlighted in the European Comission DG Environment News Alert Service, Science for Environment Policy, Issue 255, 29th September 2011.

Data processesed in this study also appeared in the following book: Chandler, R. and Scott, M. (2011).Statistical methods for trend detection and analysis in the environmental sciences. pp.388. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0-470-01543-8.

Böttcher, T., Huber, L., Le Corre, L., Leitner, J., McCarthy, D., Nilsson, R., Teixeira, C., Vaquer Araujo, S., Wilson, R.C., Adjali, F., Altenburg, M., Briani, G., Buchas, P., Le Postollec, A. and Meier, T. (2009). The HADES mission concept–astrobiological survey of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. International Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp. 321-329. doi:10.1017/S147355040999022X


Book chapters

Pearson, V.K., Wilson, R.C. and Gilmour, I. (2010). Extraterrestrial organic matter as recorded in meteorites. In: ASTROBIOLOGY: Emergence, Search and Detection of Life. Ed. Vladimir Busiuk. California: American Scientific Publishers, pp. 155-173. IISBN: 1-58883-137-X.


Reports and technical documentation

Wilson, R.C. 2015-present: DataSHIELD wiki documentation. http://www.datashield.ac.uk/wiki

Wilson, R.C. and Monks, P.S. (2011). GEOmon – Global Earth Observation and Monitoring of the Atmosphere. IGAC Activities Newsletter, Issue 43, pp. 27-30.

Wilson, R.C., Fleming, Z.F., Monks, P.S., Clain, G., Henne, S., Konovalov, I., Szopa, S. and Menut, L. (2011). Are decadal observed ozone trends a robust way of assessing the effectiveness of emission reduction measures? An analysis of European rural background ozone trends 1996-2005. Second Tropospheric Ozone Workshop – Tropospheric Ozone Changes: observations, state of understanding and model performances (Météo France, Toulouse, France, 11-13 April 2011). World Meteorological Organisation Global Atmosphere Watch Report No. 199. pp. 118-121.


Conference Proceedings / Published Abstracts

Wilson, R.C., Avraam, D., Turner, A., Bishop, T., Butters, O., Murtagh, M., Marcon, Y., Ferretti, V. and Burton, P., DataSHIELD–open source software for privacy protected analysis of biomedical data. Proceedings of SciDataCon held September 11-13, 2016, Denver USA. Conference paper 158.

Wilson, R.C., Butters, O., Avraam, D., Turner, A. and Burton, P. (2016). Privacy-protected text analysis in DataSHIELD. Proceedings of the International Population Data Linkage Network Conference held August 24-26, 2016, Swansea UK. International Journal of Population Data Science, Abstract 272.

Wilson, R.C., Burton, P., Asher, I., Carter, K., Castelli, A., Cumin, D., Evelo, C., Stewart, L., Tsoi, K. and White, E. (2016). Disseminating findings from the Data Analysis with Privacy Protection for Epidemiological Research (DAPPER) Workshop. Proceedings of the International Population Data Linkage Network Conference held August 24-26, 2016, Swansea UK. International Journal of Population Data Science, Abstract 284.

Avraam, D., Gaye, A., Isaeva, J., Burton, T., Wilson, R.C., Turner, A. and Burton, P. (2016). Privacy-protected graphical functionality in DataSHIELD. Proceedings of the International Population Data Linkage Network Conference held August 24-26, 2016, Swansea UK. International Journal of Population Data Science, Abstract 279.

Wilson, R.C., Remedios, J.J., Barstow, M., Roberts, S., Moore, T., Ojha, A. and Bull, S. (2011). The Space Academy: A successful STEM partnership.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 46 Supplement A3-A264. ID 5187. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01221.x

Wilson, R.C., Fleming, Z.F., Henne, S. and Monks, P.S. (2010). Developing Tools to Assess European Trace Gas Trends. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12. (7th EGU General Assembly, held 2-7 May, 2010 in Vienna, Austria). p.7172

Fleming, Z., Monks, P., Wilson, R., Leigh, R., Manning, A., Bandy, B., Read, K., Lee, J and Carpenter, L. (2010). Characterisation of marine boundary trace gas observatories; air mass sectors, seasonal variation and long range transport. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12. (7th EGU General Assembly, held 2-7 May, 2010 in Vienna, Austria). p.2236.

Böttcher, T., Huber, L., Le Corre, L., Leitner, J., McCarthy, D., Nilsson, R., Teixeira, C., Vaquer Araujo, S. and Wilson, R.C. (2009).The HADES Mission Concept – Astrobiological Survey of Europa, EPSC Abstracts, Vol. 4, EPSC2009-324-1.

Wilson, R.C., Dobrica, E., Pearson, V. K., Turner, D. C. and Gilmour, I. (2008). Comprehensive Organic Analysis of Antarctic Micrometeorites. Proceedings of the 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (March 10-14, 2008 in League City, Texas). LPI Contribution No. 1391., p.1763

Wilson, R.C., Pearson, V. K., Turner, D. C., Morgan, G. H., Franchi, I. A., Wright, I. P. and Gilmour, I. (2007).Simulating the Organic and Volatile Contributions to Planetary Surfaces and Atmospheres from Extraterrestrial Dust. Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held in August 13-17, 2007, Tucson, Arizona Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 42, Supplement, p.511.

Wilson, R.C., Pearson, V. K., Morgan, G. H., Franchi, I. A., Turner, D. C., Wright, I. P., and Gilmour, I.(2007).Experimental Simulation of Volatile Organic Contributions to Planetary Atmospheres and Surfaces. Proceedings of the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (March 12-16, 2007 in League City, Texas). LPI Contribution No. 1338., p.1799

Wilson, R.C., Pearson, V. K., Franchi, I. A., Wright, I. P. and Gilmour, I. (2006).The Effect of Atmospheric Entry Heating on Micrometeorite Volatile Composition. Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held August 6-11, 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 41, Supplement, p.5207.


Theses

Wilson, R.C. (2009). Organic material in micrometeorites: processes affecting its delivery to planetary environments. Ph.D. Thesis. Open University, U.K.

Wilson, R.C. (2004). The Thermal History of Chondrules in NWA 801. M.Sci. Thesis. Imperial College London, U.K.


Other

Wilson, R.C. and Burton, P. (2015). AMASED Second Phase (Jisc Data Spring Sandpit 2).. Jisc Data Spring: Sandpit 2 (Imperial College London, London 13-14th July 2015). Figshare. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1480941.v6

Wilson, R.C. and Burton, P. (2015). JISC Research Data Spring Project 3.8 (AMASED). Jisc Data Spring: Sandpit 1 (Aston University, Birmingham 26-27th February 2015). Figshare. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1319503.v4