Dr Daniel Franklin

Reader & Director of Postgraduate Certificate in Transferable Skills

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Phone: 024 765 22795

Office: B126

Teaching Interests

I teach statistics for biologists and infectious disease epidemiology, including mathematical modelling. I am particularly interested in the challenges students encounter when learning to analyse and interpret biological data, and in designing undergraduate projects that enable students to investigate genuine research questions rather than produce narrative dissertations.

Research Interests and Other Activities

My disciplinary research focuses on assisted reproductive technology (ART), particularly the relationship between embryo morphokinetics and outcomes following single and double embryo transfer, in collaboration with Professor Geraldine Hartshorne at Warwick Medical School.

My education research focuses primarily on students’ transition into undergraduate bioscience and on how they develop the knowledge, quantitative understanding and ways of thinking needed to engage with the discipline as a science. This includes work on quantitative preparedness, biological variation, data analysis and misconceptions carried from prior study. Extending this interest across the educational pathway, I am also collaborating with Stellenbosch University on resources to support students entering postgraduate research, particularly those with limited prior experience of research-led education.

My experience of educational leadership has led to wider interests in evidence-based pedagogical change, the dissemination of effective practice, and academic governance that supports fair and consistent decision-making for students. As Director of Warwick’s Postgraduate Certificate in Transferable Skills, I lead an institution-wide programme that helps doctoral researchers develop the capabilities required for research, professional transition and their future careers. I also contribute to the development and evaluation of bioscience education through my work as an accreditation assessor for the Royal Society of Biology.