
Dr Rebecca Richmond
BA(Oxon.), PhD
Current positions
Associate Professor in Molecular Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Molecular Epidemiology at the University of Bristol. My research aims to: 1) highlight the relative importance and inter-relationships of several health behaviours (including smoking, e-cigarette use, alcohol, sleep, physical activity) for prioritization in disease prevention strategies and 2) identify molecular pathways (e.g. epigenetic and metabolomic) which could serve as therapeutic targets for intervention. My major areas of focus are on the large-scale integration of molecular data in population-based and clinical health science as well as the development and application of causal inference methods, including Mendelian randomization. I have specific interests in cancer, women's health and lifecourse epidemiology.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Mapping sleep and circadian rhythm disruption impacts on cardiometabolic disease
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2025 to 31/05/2030
Fellowship 1: Understanding Society Biomarker Data Project Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018
Thesis supervisions
Investigating the interplay of reproductive, menstrual and adiposity factors in relation to breast cancer risk
Supervisors
Assessing the role of sleep in reducing risk and improving outcomes for breast cancer
Supervisors
Genetic and epigenetic data as a tool to augment understanding of oropharyngeal cancer
Supervisors
The Effects of Daylight Saving Time Clock Changes on Sleep and Health
Supervisors
Improving how we conduct and report Mendelian randomisation studies
Supervisors
Causal implications of common infections and platelet function on cardiovascular disease
Supervisors
Uncovering the role of food processing and adiposity in the rising incidence of upper-aerodigestive tract cancer
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
21/01/2026Associations between shift work patterns and sleep disturbance
BMJ Open
Exploring the Relationship Between Caffeine Consumption, Caffeine Metabolism, and Sleep Behaviours
Journal of Sleep Research
Lifecourse genome-wide association study meta-analysis refines the critical life stages for adiposity’s influence on breast cancer risk
Science Advances
Acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health in England
BMJ
A Mendelian randomization study investigating the role of sleep traits and their joint effects on the incidence of atrial fibrillation
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology


