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Computing Science and Mathematics

Rosalyn Porter

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Personal

I have recently completed my PhD in applied mathematics, under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Norman (Institute of Computing Science and Maths, University of Stirling) and Dr. Lucy Gilbert (The James Hutton Institute). Funding was via a CASE studentship from the Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC) with the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) as the CASE partner.

Research

I have been developing SIR type models of a tick borne disease that affects red grouse in the Scottish Highlands. My work has extended previously published models to consider an alternative route of infection and the seasonality of ticks and red grouse. I also developed models of potential management strategies that may help control ticks and virus.

Publications

R Porter. 2011. Mathematical models of a tick borne disease in a British game bird with potential management strategies. PhD Thesis, University of Stirling.

R Porter, R Norman, and L Gilbert. 2011 Controlling tick-borne diseases through domestic animal management: a theoretical approach. Theoretical Ecology, 4(3):321-339. DOI 10.1007/s12080-010-0080-2

L Gilbert, R Porter, RA Norman. 2011 Can acaricide treatment of sheep control ticks and tick-borne disease in the environment? Knowledge Scotland, Science Policy Connections Online. Research Briefing, Sustainability.

L Gilbert, R Porter, RA Norman. 2011 Farming sheep for tick control - implications for biodiversity. In: Biodiversity and Farming (ed. Pakeman, R.J.). A Summary of Research Outputs from the Scottish Government's Environment - Land Use and Rural Stewardship Research Programme. Macaulay Land Use Reserarch Institute, Aberdeen, pp10-11.

Conferences

July 2011
ECMTB, Krakow (talk)
Sept 2010
Mathematical Biology PhD Meeting, Strathclyde (session chair)
Sept 2010
Maths in Medicine Study Group, Strathclyde (participant)
April 2010
SBES Student Conference; Biodiversity and Environmental Change, (talk and poster)
Dec 2009
Epidemics 2, Athens (poster)
Sept 2009
Mathematical Biology PhD Meeting, Strathclyde (talk)
April 2009
SBES Student Conference; Evidence Base for Environmental Management & Conservation, (talk)

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