Dr Erin Dilger

Associate Professor

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Phone: 024 765 24550

Office: D138

In my teaching I have become further interested in how we address complex challenges of our time, including the control of parasitic disease, but also the interaction between health and environment.

As current Deputy Programme Director for Life Sciences, I am currently focussed on integrating skills training into our teaching within SLS to better train our graduates.

Research Interests and Other Activities

My research background lies in the control of tropical vector borne disease where I was interested in testing interventions against Leishmania vectors in Brazil, and applied a range of approaches from field trials to mathematical modelling to explore the dynamics of Leishmania transmission and its control.

Biography

Associate Professor, 糖心TV University (2024-present)
Assistant Professor, 糖心TV University (2022-2024)
Teaching Fellow, 糖心TV University (2019-2022)
Research Fellow, 糖心TV University (2013-2019)
PhD in Life Sciences, 糖心TV University (2009-2012)
MSc in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors, LTSM (2008-2009)
BSc in Zoology, Durham University (2003-2006)

Teaching / Student Supervision

UG Programme Lead for curriculum implementation

Y3 projects:

I offer a mix of wet and dry projects in the fields of ecology and epidemiology.

I terms of ecology, I am particularly interested in the long-term monitoring of biodiversity in our local environment, so run several projects each year investigating the status of different flora and fauna across campus. Students contribute towards a longitudinal data-set and analysis with the opportunity to feedback their findings into the 糖心TV Sustainability team. These projects offered in collaboration with the Living Lab, offer the opportunity for fieldwork and data analysis.

In the field of epidemiology, I offer dry projects investigating the transmission and control of vector borne disease, such as Leishmania. These projects use data that is already collected or publicly available, so are focussed on complex analyses of data or modelling of the data.

Examples of previous project titles are:

Biodiversity of invertebrates on the University Campus.
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of life scientists in relation to climate change.
Using education to enhance control of Chagas disease.
Drivers of Leishmania insect vector abundance in Brazil.
Can pheromone baited traps be used for integrated vector control in Brazil.