Jill RD MacKay

Summary

I am a Research Fellow in veterinary education with an broad range of interests including student-staff interactions, human-animal interactions, digital cultures and personality research. My PhD looked at how personality traits in cattle could be observed in big data systems. I became interested in education research working for the EU FP7 funded Animal Welfare Indicators project designing learning objects for the knowledge transfer aspect of the project. I have been involved in a number of knowledge exchange initiatives including Massive Open Online Courses and YouTube ventures which has led me to writing a popular science book about animal personality.

Agricultural Science Animal Behavior Evolutionary Studies Science & Medical Education Veterinary Medicine Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Edinburgh

Work details

Research Fellow

University of Edinburgh

June 2016

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

My principle role is the development and support of educational research projects at R(D)SVS. I have a focus on interdisciplinary methodology and am particularly interested in staff-student relationships in digital spaces, how we measure student experience, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative responses.

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Have you considered framing these ideas around a recognised education theory (e.g. social constructivist theory?)

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