Thesis

  • Colquhoun, R. L. (2025). How do earthquakes start? A seismological investigation into earthquake nucleation and determinism [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford. [https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3aa89393-c988-424d-a7ab-29494393b3e7]

Education and EEDI

  • Colquhoun. Evolving as a GTA: Teaching, Performing and Identity. Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice, Volume 5, Issue 1, p 39-45. 2025. https://doi.org/10.31273/5p663e15
  • Colquhoun et al. Reflections on Practices to Foster Inclusion and Accessibility in Programming Teaching. Teaching Programming Across Disciplines, Eds. Blankinship et al. (2026)
  • Young, Colquhoun et al. Sequential vs. Simultaneous: Approaches to Learning Programming and Statistics. Teaching Programming Across Disciplines, Eds. Blankinship et al. (2026)
  • Rasmussen, Chen, Colquhoun et al. Gender inclusive methods in studies of STEM practitioners. Statistics ArXiV, July 2023, [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.15802]
  • Colquhoun & Fernando. An audit for action. Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 61, Issue 5, 1 October 2020, pg. 5.40–5.42, [https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/ataa075]

Academic Conferences CONFERENCES, TALKS AND POSTERS

  • Conference organisation
    • AGU 2025  Co-convenor: ED11A Advances and Progress in Fostering a Supportive Scientific Community for All (Oral and Poster)  Co-convenor: TH23H Emphasizing the Science of Queer and Allied Scientists (Townhall with 13 invited speakers)
    • November 2025 – Co-organiser: ISNBS Symposium
    • January 2022 – Co-organiser: COMET student meeting
    • October 2021 – Co-organiser: BGA PGRiP meeting
  • Invited Talks
    • UTIG discussion hour (2023) – Investigating earthquake nucleation and determinism using large datasets
    • UCL Advanced Research Computing Teach and Code (2025) – Reflections on Practices to Foster Inclusion and Accessibility in Programming Teaching
  • Education:
    • EGU 2026 (EOS2.1): UK Geophysics Education: student decline, industry demand, and evidenced-based routes forward (Gilligan, Jenkins, Butcher, Colquhoun et al.)
    • EGU 2026 (EOS3.3): Rethinking fieldwork as a learning environment: lessons from a reflective case study on inclusive geoscience field education (Laurent, Passmore, Spencer, Murphy, Day and Colquhoun)
  • Investigating Earthquake Variability Using Moment-Rate Functions
    • Poster: AGU 2024 (Colquhoun*, Hawthorne and Garth)
  • Using seismograms to investigate earthquake determinism (Colquhoun* and Hawthorne)
    • Talks: SSA 2023, BGA PGRiP 2022, EGU22 (top 20% of programme group in student presentation award), COMET Student Meeting 2022, BGA PGRiP 2021
    • Posters: Machine Learning for Earthquakes meeting 2023, Statistical Seismology Meeting 2022, BSM 2022
  • Using foreshocks, aftershocks, and sequences to probe earthquake nucleation (Colquhoun* and Hawthorne)
    • Talks: Wessex congress 2021, SSA Annual Meeting 2021
    • Posters: Cargèse Earthquake Nucleation ‘Autumn’ School, SCEC 2021, Student Seismology Workshop 2021
  • Earthquake determinism for a broader audience (Colquhoun*)
    • Talks: 2022 LGBTQ+ STEMinar, 2021 oSTEM Conference, University College Graduate Martlets Seminar, TETHYS seminar

Wider engagement and EDI work

  • I presented a ~30 minute introduction to earthquakes, and some of my results to the University College Graduate Martlets Seminar Earthquakes: how, why and telling their futures. The audience was composed of graduate students from a diverse range of disciplines with varying levels of scientific understanding. (February 2022)

  • I gave a talk at the 2022 LGBTQ+ STEMinar Telling an earthquake’s future: how soon can we tell an earthquake’s magnitude (January 2022)

  • I presented a poster, and gave a talk at the 2021 oSTEM Conference: Can we tell an earthquake’s future: investigating earthquake determinism (November 2022)

  • I presented my masters work at a TETHYS seminar, which is a seminar series aimed at an early undergraduate level audience. You can watch a recording of this talk on youtube here (starts at 26:01). (November 2020).

  • I appeared on a panel at AGU 2020 talking about racial inclusion and diversity efforts in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. You can read about this work in an article I co-authored for Astronomy and Geophysics, which is open-access here. (December 2020).

  • You can see me talking about getting into Earth Sciences here.

  • I wrote about the application process for Oxford Earth Sciences here