We are recruiting a research assistant with strong quantitative skills and an interest in infectious disease modelling to develop new analyses to improve our understanding of the role of human management and behaviour in transmitting infectious diseases of livestock in GB.

Using BVD and lameness as exemplar diseases, you will exploit a combination of project-generated data with exceptional extant datasets on livestock farming and infectious disease in British Livestock in a game theoretic network framework.

The project data will consider insights into personal and communal history, social ties, economic cost benefit and decision-making behaviour in regards to disease control in a single community.

You will use approaches from social network analysis and game theory, building on a modelling approach previously developed within the Kao group (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118127).

This work is part of an exciting new collaboration including King’s College London (Prof Abigail Woods), Glasgow (Prof. Nick Hanley), Hull (Dr. Lewis Holloway) Leeds Trinity (Prof. Karen Sayer), and Newcastle (Dr. Amy Proctor) across multiple disciplines including Epidemiology, Economics, History and Social Geography, funded by the Wellcome Trust (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/research/proj/Thinking-forward-through-the-past.aspx). You will be based on the Easter Bush Campus at the Roslin Institute, a world leading animal research institute, including a substantial and growing concentration of researchers interested in epidemiology and with a range of mathematical, statistical and data analytical skills.

The post is fixed term for 4 years