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Lawson, Becki

MA VetMB MSc DipECZM PhD FRCPath FRCVS
Position:
  • Vice Chair of the European Wildlife Disease Association
  • Chair of the EWDA’s Network for Wildlife Health Surveillance
  • Honorary Professor, Royal Veterinary College
Location:
United Kingdom
Field of Work:
Research Institutes
Fellowship Award:

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

Fellowship Route:
Meritorious Contributions to Knowledge (MCK)
Fellowship Year:
2020
Area of Support:
  • Collaborative research
  • One Health Agenda
  • Promoting knowledge and best practice
  • Public engagement

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.