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Professional Development

Education:

2017-2021: MIBTP CASE PhD, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick

2015-2016: MSc Veterinary Epidemiology, Royal Veterinary College and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Merit award, received PSS Scholarship.

2012-2015: BSc (Hons) Equine Science, Aberystwyth University, First class honours. Received Thomas Davies Scholarship.

Teaching:

2020-current: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Methods and Analysis in Behavioural Science, School of Psychology, University of Warwick, work helping to facilitate seminar tutorials where MSc students are able to discuss and seek help with use of R for analysis of behavioural science data.

2019-2020: Skills Mentor, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, running small group tutorials about skills needed in MSc degrees (such as academic poster design, presentations, literature searches)

2019-2020: Demonstrator, Quantitive Skills for Biology (Year 1) and Immunology and Epidemiology (Year 2), School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, demonstration in undergraduate workshops, helping to answer questions and support students.

2018-2020: QuBIC mentor, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick providing support to undergraduate students with laboratory reports and quantitative queries. Lead teacher of 3x 1 hour maths refresher workshops.

2017: Training course at Cheshire Riding School for teaching riding to British Horse Society Stage 2 level.

2015: Taught stable management and theory sessions for beginner riders organised as part of Aberystwyth University Equestrian club, after identifying difficulty for these riders in accessing this kind of information.

Professional Skills:

Software: RStudio, STATA, ArcGIS, Berkeley Madonna.

Training courses:

- University of Warwick APP PGR course 2019

- 'Preparing to Teach' Workshop, 2018 and moodle course, University of Warwick (1 day)

- MIBTP First Year Training: Statistics, Data Analysis and Programming , University of Warwick (3 month training course)

- MIBTP Masterclasses. Courses included: Going beyond ANOVA, Genome scale bioinformatics, Introduction to food security, Methods for RNA sequencing data analysis, Individual based modelling, Reverse Genetics, DNA bioinformatics using Linux, EMBOSS and BLAST, Universities of Warwick, Birmingham and Leicester (1-3 day courses)

- Data Management Bootcamp Workshop, University of Warwick (1 day)

Animal Handling:

- Ovine: training in sheep handling from the University of Warwick, currently assisting in a field trial measuring intramammary masses and body condition.

- Equine: British Horse Society Stage 3 Care and Flatwork certificates, several years experience working on livery yards, dealers and studs, regular attendance at British Dressage training clinics with my own horse.