Awareness and use of large language models (LLMs/GenAI) with postgraduate taught students at a UK vet school
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Ongoing: Co-Investigator. In collaboration with S Rhind (PI, Edinburgh), L Donelly (Co-I, Edinburgh) and F Borthwick (Co-I, Edinburgh)
Projects
Research Projects
Equine genetics stakeholder survey - UK and Europe
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Ongoing: Researcher. In collaboration with S Brooks (Florida), E Norton (Arizona), MJ Mienaltowski (UC Davis), A McCoy (Illinois)
Supporting collaboration between equine veterinarians and farriers for equine well-being
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Ongoing: Co-Investigator. In collaboration with T Coombs (Co-I, SRUC), B Lancaster (Co-I, Edinburgh) and J Florio (Researcher)
Blended learning frameworks in healthcare curricula: Supporting innovation and success
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Ongoing: Researcher. PI: M Milner (RVC). Collaborator: V Brewster (RVC)
PhD Projects
Food motivation in horses: from behaviour to genetics
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2025-29: Co-supervisor
MSc Projects
Training flat racehorses in hot climates: experiences and practices of trainers in Qatar
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2024-5: Co-supervisor
The use of horses in sport: opinion of the general public versus equestrians in the context of the Olympics
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2024-5: Co-supervisor
A systematic review of noseband tightness and its effects in the horse
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2024-5: Primary supervisor
The Jockey Effect: Assessing the Influence of Jockey Factors on Racehorse Performance
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Ongoing: Primary supervisor
A systematic review of equine infrared thermography: applications for limbs and hooves
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2024-5: Primary supervisor
Inbreeding depression on performance in flat and national hunt thoroughbred racehorses in the UK and Ireland
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2023-4: Primary supervisor
Developing an equine welfare-based rating tool for stable design assessment
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2023-4: Primary supervisor
Perceived benefits of Brine Inhalation in Horses with Equine Asthma
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2023-4: Co-supervisor
Why equestrians use auxiliary reins on horses: biomechanical perceptions and barriers to human behaviour change
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2023-4: Co-supervisor - published
Other Projects
Identification of clinical and environmental predisposing risk factors for equine exertional rhabdomyolysis
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2021: Day-to-day supervisor for a BSc research project
Investigating lifestyle, behavioural and environmental risk factors for complex genetic diseases across species (hypertrophic cardiomyopthy in cats and recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis in horses)
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2021: Day-to-day supervisor for a BSc research project
Stress and disease: assessing hair cortisol levels in equine recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis (RER) and canine Duchenne musclar dystrophy (DMD)
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2020: Day-to-day supervisor for a vet student elective rotation research project