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Dr Rachel Hilliam
Profile summary
- Visiting Informal Academic
- Honorary Associate
- Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- School of Mathematics & Statistics
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Professional biography
Rachel Hilliam is currently Director of Teaching for Mathemetics and Statistics. She has previously been the accademic lead for the Mathematics and Statistics student support team. She is a staff tutor and member of the statistics group.
The Open University in the East Midlands
Clarendon Park
Clumber Avenue
Sherwood Rise
Nottingham
NG5 1AH
Tel: +44 (0)115 9625451
Fax: +44 (0)115 9715575
Textphone: +44 (0)115 9715507
Email: east-midlands@open.ac.uk
website: The Open University in the East Midlands (05)
Research interests
Having worked as a medical statistician both within the NHS and as a lecturer in various Universities I have various medical research interests across a broad spectrum of medical areas.
I work with Tony Lawrance from The University of Warwick on statistical aspects of chaotic systems, with particular applications in communication systems.
I have several current projects focussing on student retention and interactive way of presenting statistics.
Teaching interests
I have been a member of most of the statistcs module teams and have chaired M140 for a number a years. Currently I'm Director of Teaching for Mathematics and Statistics.
Impact and engagement
I deliver a variety of statistical training courses to NHS professionals in the East Midlands.
External collaborations
I am an visitng Fellow in Medical Statistics at the University of Derby and have several collaborative projects with both Leicester and Derby Hospitals.
Publications
Journal articles
Webb, J.; Hilliam, R. and Bainbridge, L.
Journal of Perioperative Practice, 28(5) (pp. 109-114)
The Triple Whammy: Gendered Careers of Geographically Marginalised Academic STEM Women (2018)
Herman, Clem and Hilliam, Rachel
International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10(1) (pp. 171-189)
Interactive Statistics: can we use experience from a large diverse student cohort to provide professional development for a wider population? (2017)
Hilliam, Rachel and Calvert, Carol
New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 12(1)
Interactive statistics for a diverse student population (2017)
Hilliam, Rachel and Calvert, Carol
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning ((Early Access))
Improving retention for all students, studying mathematics as part of their chosen qualification, by using a voluntary diagnostic quiz (2016-09)
Calvert, Carol; Hilliam, Rachel and Coleman, Juliet
MSOR Connections, 14(3) (pp. 32-38)
Effectiveness of a care bundle to reduce surgical site infections in patients having open colorectal surgery (2016-04)
Tanner, J.; Kiernan, M.; Hilliam, R.; Davey, S.; Wood, T.; Ball, J. and Leaper, D.
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England, 98(4) (pp. 270-274)
Mothers’ and grandmothers’ perceptions relating to causality, treatment and support for families of a child with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: applying Enosis, an alternative mixed methods approach (2014-12)
Fakis, Apostolos; Hilliam, Rachel; Townend, Michael; Stoneley, Helen and Robinson, Gary
International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 8(2) (pp. 148-165)
Quantitative analysis of qualitative information from interviews: a systematic literature review (2014-04)
Fakis, Apostolos; Hilliam, Rachel; Stoneley, Helen and Townend, Michael
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 8(2) (pp. 139-161)
Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study (2014)
Alkahtani, S.; Cherrill, J.; Grayson, K.; Hilliam, R.; Sammons, H. and Choonara, I.
BMJ Open, 4, Article e006421(12)
A fresh look at preoperative body washing (2012-01)
Tanner, Judith; Gould, Dinah; Jenkins, Philip; Hilliam, Rachel; Mistry, Neetesh and Walsh, Susannah
Journal of Infection Prevention, 13(1) (pp. 11-15)
A quality of life measure for limb lymphoedema (LYMQOL) (2010)
Keeley, Vaughan; Crooks, Sue; Locke, Jane; Veigas, Debbie; Riches, Katie and Hilliam, Rachel
Journal of Lymphoedema, 5(1) (pp. 26-37)
A randomised controlled trial to compare postoperative pain in children undergoing tonsillectomy using cold steel dissection with bipolar heamostasis versus coblation technique (2009)
Parker, D.; Howe, L.; Unsworth, V. and Hilliam, R.
Clinical Otolaryngology, 34(3) (pp. 225-231)
Analysis of rewarming curves in Raynaud's phenomenon of various aetiologies (2009)
Salem, K. M.; Baker, M.; Hilliam, R. M.; Davies, S.; Deighton, C.; Bainbridge, L. C. and Manning, G.
Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), 34(5) (pp. 621-626)
Can a normal range of elbow movement predict a normalelbow x ray? (2007-02)
Lennon, Robert; Riyat, Manjeet S.; Hilliam, Rachel; Anathkrishnan, G. and Alderson, Gerry
Emergency Medicine Journal, 24(2) (pp. 86-88)
Statistical discrimination in the presence of selection effects (2005-04-30)
Hilliam, R. M.
Statistics in Medicine, 24(8) (pp. 1219-1232)
Chaos communication synchronization: Combatting noise by distribution transformation (2005-01)
Hilliam, Rachel M and Lawrance, Anthony J
Statistics and Computing, 15(1) (pp. 43-52)
The dynamics and statistics of bivariate chaotic maps in communications modeling (2004-04)
Hilliam, Rachel M. and Lawrance, Anthony J.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (IJBC), 14(4) (pp. 1177-1194)
Conference items
Hilliam, Rachel and Lawrance, Anthony
In : International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (Oct 7-11, Xi'an, China)
A statistical perspective on the dynamics of bivariate chaotic maps for communications modelling (2001-10-28)
Hilliam, Rachel and Lawrance, Anthony
In : 2001 International Symposium on Nonlines Theory and its Applications (28 Oct - 1 Nov 2001, Miyagi, Japan)
Other
Storey, Philip A.; Fakis, Apostolos; Hilliam, Rachel; Bradley, Mary J.; Lindau, Tommy and Burke, Frank D.
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