Teaching Activities
I have been teaching on MSc courses at the University of Edinburgh for more than 15 years. I was involved in the reorganisation of the MSc in Animal Breeding which became the MSc in “Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis” in 2000. This reorganisation expanded teaching of quantitative genetics from animal breeding to unite the areas of quantitative genetics applied to human, livestock and natural populations. Since the launch of the new MSc I have sat on the examination board of the MSc as representative of the Roslin Institute since then. With Sara Knott I co-organise the “Genome Analysis” section of the course and teach over a period of three weeks on this course. I also contribute to teaching on the “Principles of Genetic Improvement” module of the course and supervise summer maxi-projects.
I have both organised and taught on international post-graduate courses on livestock genomics and run international courses on QTL analysis.
I am principle supervisor of 3 PhD students and act as a secondary supervisor for another 5, I am also involved in supervising and interacting with visiting students and scientists through various EC and other collaborations.