Training

EERA group offers training in the form of PhD's, MSc's and bespoke tailor-made courses

Training courses offered

• MSc Animal Bioscience module in analytical methods
• MSc Food Safety module in data analysis for food safety
• MSc Veterinary Epidemiology lectures in research skills and statistics and R for epidemiologists
• Evidence based medicine training for final year veterinary students
• Various other online master level courses in clinical livestock population medicine and infectious disease control (MVetSci). These include developing online webinars, interactive learning tasks and assessments towards academic and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon Advanced Practioner accreditation
• Bespoke training in R, epidemiology and statistics  
• Fleming fund fellowships 

Student Research Component (SRC) projects we have offered:

• Zoonotic diseases in pastoral and dairy cattle in Cameroon

• Bovine trypanosome infections in the Vina Division, Cameroon

• Investigation of attitudes on dog ownership and interactions with stray dogs in a Cambodian community commencing a rabies vaccination campaign 

• Epidemiology of Rift Valley Fever in Cameroonian Cattle

• Influence of viral and bacterial co-infections on bTB diagnostic test performance in African cattle

• Transmission of fleas in small holder livestock in Blantyre Malawi

• Epidemiology of gastrointestinal helminths in canine populations in Blantyre Malawi

• The association of Johnes serological status and markers of mastitis in a herd of dairy cattle 

• Phenotypic markers for success as a breeding ewe in a hefted Scottish Blackface hill flock 

MSc projects we have offered:

• Dynamics of gastrointestinal helminth co-infections in Kenyan livestock and wildlife

• Epidemiology of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhoagic Fever in cattle in Cameroon