Dr Richard Parker

Research summary

Statistics; Education; Experimental design; Epidemiology; Animal behaviour & welfare

I am intersted in the development of new methods to teach and apply quantitative skills and knowledge, and I currently work on an ESRC-funded project investigating the use of interactive electronic-books in the teaching and application of modern quantitative methods in the social science.

My background is in biology and psychology, and the areas they intersect, such as animal behaviour & welfare.

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Biography

I completed my BBSRC-funded PhD in 2008 on ‘Cognitive Bias as an Indicator of Emotional State in Animals’, supervised by Mike Mendl and Liz Paul in the Animal Welfare and Behaviour (AWB) research group in the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences.

Since then, I have worked on a variety of research projects (with the most recent first):

• The use of interactive electronic-books in the teaching and application of modern quantitative methods in the social science, an ESRC-funded project running until 2016.
• e-Stat project, developing statistical software for complex statistical models (ESRC), with Bill Browne;
• The efficacy of ...

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Recent publications

• Michaelides, DT, Parker, RMA, Charlton, CMJ, Browne, WJ & Moreau, L, 2016, ‘Intermediate notation for provenance and workflow reproducibility’. in: Marta Mattoso, Boris Glavic (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes: 6th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2016, McLean, VA, USA, June 7-8, 2016, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, pp. 83-94
• Hothersall, B, Caplen, GJ, Parker, RMA, Nicol, CJ, Waterman-Pearson, AE, Weeks, CA & Murrell, JC, 2016, ‘Effects of carprofen, meloxicam and butorphanol on broiler chickens’ performance in mobility tests’. Animal Welfare, vol 25., pp. 55-67

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