Dr Gerry Kendall
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Gerry Kendall
BSc MSc PhD
Academic Visitor
Gerry Kendall has worked for thirty years at the National Radiological Protection Board. When he retired in 2005, rather than devote himself entirely to butterflies, he was offered an Honorary Research Fellowship with the Childhood Cancer Research Group (CCRG). When the CCRG was wound up in 2014, he was very grateful to accept the offer of a desk in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU).
His main work at Oxford has involved calculating doses from natural ionising radiation and investigating their effects, both by calculation and by epidemiology. This culminated in a huge record-based case-control study which showed a link between natural gamma rays and childhood leukaemia (Kendall G, et al. Leukemia 2013;27:3–9). This contradicted suggestions that very low doses of radiation have no effects at all.
He is working towards a second phase of this study which will be even bigger than the initial phase, and use better estimates of radiation dose.
Recent publications
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Machine learning techniques for the prediction of indoor gamma-ray dose rates - Strengths, weaknesses and implications for epidemiology.
Kendall GM. et al, (2024), J Environ Radioact, 282
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A Historical Survey of Key Epidemiological Studies of Ionizing Radiation Exposure.
Little MP. et al, (2024), Radiat Res
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Solar ultraviolet radiation exposure, and incidence of childhood acute lymphocytic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a US population-based dataset.
Little MP. et al, (2024), Br J Cancer
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Asbestos-related cancer in naval personnel: findings from participants in the British nuclear tests 1952–1967
Kendall G., (2023), Scientific Reports
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Asbestos-related cancer in naval personnel: findings from participants in the British nuclear tests 1952–1967
Kendall G. and Gun RT., (2023), Scientific Reports, 13