Dr. Tammy Shadbolt, BSc Hons BVM&S MSc PhD PG Cert FHEA MRCVS- Communicating with confidence throughout our careers: journeying into conservation science.
Tammy graduated from Liverpool University in 2005 with a BSc Hons in Veterinary Conservation Medicine, Edinburgh University in 2007 with a BVM&S in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, the Royal Veterinary College in 2013 with an MSc in Wild Animal Health and in 2017 with a PhD on The Pathogenesis of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease. She also holds a PG Cert in Veterinary Education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Tammy spent 12 years in small animal clinical practice working both in the UK and internationally in the private and charity sectors before directing her career towards fieldwork, teaching and research in wildlife conservation.
Dr. Becki Lawson, MA, VetMB MSc PhD Dip ECZM (Wildlife Population Health) FRCVS - How we communicate science from the Garden Wildlife Health project
Becki is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and has been based at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) for almost 20 years. After qualifying as a veterinarian from the University of Cambridge in 1997, she began working with treatment and rehabilitation of wildlife casualties and subsequently focused on disease surveillance and outbreak investigation of various conditions affecting terrestrial and marine wildlife species. Her research interest focuses on investigating the impact of disease on free-living wildlife populations. She co-supervises the Royal Veterinary College/ZSL residency programme in Wildlife Population Health. In addition to her role as EWDA vice-chair, she is currently secretary of the EWDA Network and serves on the WDA Student Awards Committee.
Dr.Katharina Seilern-Moy, Mag.med.vet, PhD, MRCVS - Citizen science – a two-way street of communication: How Garden Wildlife Health relies on effective communication
Katharina graduated from the Veterinary University Vienna in 2011, specialising in Conservation Medicine, after which she spent some time gaining experience in the field of wildlife conservation as well as in a mixed animal practice. She then pursued her PhD on “Pathogenic Characteristics of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus Infection in Asian Elephants” at the University of Surrey and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in the UK. Since September 2016, Katharina is working as a wildlife veterinarian and research associate coordinating the Garden Wildlife Health project at the Institute of Zoology at ZSL London Zoo, which is a citizen science project aiming to monitor the health of, and identify disease threats to, British wildlife by collating disease reports from the general public.