Personal Statement
I am a farm vet and RCVS Recognised Specialist in Cattle Health and Production. After qualifying as a vet, I worked in mixed practice in North Wales for a few years before undertaking a clinical residency in farm animal medicine at Bristol University. Subsequently I worked for three years at Liverpool University as clinical lead of the Farm Animal Practice and Hospital. I moved to Nottingham University when I won a Wellcome Trust Fellowship and completed a Master’s degree in Statistics and a clinical PhD. My PhD was interdisciplinary (psychology, behaviour change and Bayesian statistics) in the context of dairy herd health. Afterwards, I spent a year setting up the new Veterinary School at Surrey, before returning to Liverpool where I have held a variety of leadership rand teaching roles. I am currently Deputy Head of the Department for Livestock and One Health within the Veterinary School. As a professionally qualified coach, I am part of the university's internal bank of leadership coaches, supporting leadership across the organization.

Research Overview
My research is focused on helping people to implement evidence-based disease control measures and good husbandry for animals, in real word settings. This has benefits for animals, people and the environment. It involves identifying barriers to the uptake of veterinary and husbandry advice and then seeks to find novel and creative implementation strategies to overcome them. I am interested in veterinary implementation problems in a variety of clinical contexts, including relating to antimicrobial resistance and diseases of livestock. This research includes de-implementing procedures that are no longer considered best practice. My research is interdisciplinary and involves facilitating human behaviour change for both animal owners and vets. It follows on from my PhD which involved working with psychologists and Bayesian statisticians in a farm animal health context. The goal is to ensure that new research findings and innovations are taken up quickly into practice and the husbandry provided to animals.