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Dr Becki Lawson

MA VetMB MSc DipECZM PhD FRCPath FRCVS
Becki Lawson
  • Location: London
  • Year of Fellowship: 2020
  • Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to Knowledge

Field of work

Research institutes

Areas of special interest

  • Wildlife Population Health
  • Wildlife Disease Ecology

Areas of support

  • Collaborative research
  • One Health Agenda
  • Promoting knowledge and best practice
  • Public engagement

Professional positions

  • Vice Chair of the European Wildlife Disease Association
  • Chair of the EWDA’s Network for Wildlife Health Surveillance
  • Honorary Professor, Royal Veterinary College

Awards

  • British Trust for Ornithology’s Marsh Award for Ornithology (2017)

Biography

Becki is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London. She began working with treatment and rehabilitation of wildlife casualties and subsequently focused on disease investigation in various terrestrial and marine species. Her research interest focuses on the epidemiology and impact of disease on free-living wildlife populations.

Becki co-ordinates the Garden Wildlife Health project (www.gardenwildlifehealth.org), a national citizen science programme which conducts scanning disease surveillance for amphibians, reptiles, garden birds and hedgehogs in Great Britain.

Becki delivers post-graduate training in wildlife health, principally through the European College of Zoological Medicine’s Wildlife Population Health residency programme, and the MSc in Wild Animal Health and Biology courses, co-run by the Institute of Zoology and Royal Veterinary College.


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