Dr Neil Goulding
BSC(Cardiff University), PHD(Cardiff University)
Current positions
Senior Research Associate in Health & Religious/Spiritual Beliefs and Behaviours
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
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Research interests
I graduated with a PhD in Mathematics at Cardiff University. I have been working at the University of Bristol since 2012, initially working as a mathematical and statistical modeler in the Schools of Earth Sciences and Geography. I joined the Bristol Medical School in 2017, modelling stimulant use from wastewater data, alongside other epidemiological data sources. More recently, I was a member of the Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), working with Professor Deborah Lawlor on projects using metabolomics data in epidemiological studies to explore their causal role and/or ability to accurately predict risk in reproductive, perinatal or cardiometabolic health.
I am currently a member of the Beliefs, Behaviours and Health Research Programme, within the Centre for Academic Child Health. I am working with Dr Matt Suderman and Professor Jean Goulding, examining ways in which biomarkers from the proteome mediate or interact with religious and/or spiritual beliefs and associated behaviours and their impact on mental and physical health and well-being of participants from infancy to adulthood in ALSPAC.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Beliefs, Behaviours and Health Research Programme
Role
Researcher
Description
The overall programme of research is aimed at understanding whether different aspects of beliefs and associated behaviours are associated with health and well-being. The primary data source for this research…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2021 to 31/08/2026
Publications
Selected publications
01/12/2021Investigating the relationships between unfavourable habitual sleep and metabolomic traits: evidence from multi- cohort multivariable regression and Mendelian randomization analyses
BMC Medicine
A Maternal Serum Metabolite Ratio Predicts Large for Gestational Age Infants at Term
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
A comparison of trends in wastewater-based data and traditional epidemiological indicators of stimulant consumption in three locations
Addiction
Recent publications
01/09/2025Differences in Neurocognitive Development Between Children Who Had Had No Breast Milk and Those Who Had Had Breast Milk for at Least 6 Months
Nutrients
Plasma Circulating Metabolites Associated With Steatotic Liver Disease and Liver Enzymes
Gastro Hep Advances
Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours in a prospective cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England
Wellcome Open Research
Inflammation proteomics datasets in the ALSPAC cohort
Wellcome Open Research
A framework for assessing selection and misclassification bias in mendelian randomisation studies
BMJ
Related people
Mrs Yaz Iles-Caven
Senior Research Associate in Child Health
Applied Health Research
Emeritus Professor Jean Golding
Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Deborah Lawlor
Professor of Epidemiology, MRC Investigator and BHF Chair
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
Professor Kate Northstone
Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
Dr Hamid Tohidi Nik
Research Fellow in Quantitative Analysis and Evidence Synthesis