Best Junior Oral Presentation
SRUC Prize
This prize will be awarded at the annual conference for the best paper presented by a new researcher in any area of veterinary epidemiology. The prize is sponsored by the Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) since 2012, who generously provide £200 for the prize. Authors submitting abstracts for presentation at the conference, and who fulfill the eligibility criteria (below), can request to be considered for this prize. However, please note that the number of SRUC prize candidate slots is limited, and preference is given to oral abstracts scored most highly upon blinded evaluation by the SVEPM committee.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the SRUC prize, candidates must be either:
• A PhD student
• Engaged in a post-graduate residency training
• Not more than 5 years employed in the field of (veterinary) epidemiology or veterinary public health/preventive medicine (inclusive of PhD/post-graduate residency training time)
Value
• The prize will be £200 and will be awarded for at least 5 consecutive years
• If there are no eligible candidates in any year, the prize money will be carried forward for an additional year.
Judging
• There will be 3 judges: The Senior Vice-President, Junior Vice-President and Professor George Gunn (SRUC) or his nominee from SRUC
• Judges will meet twice during the annual meeting to deliberate
• The prize will be awarded at the conference dinner on Thursday evening
Judging criteria
• Both the proceedings manuscript and oral presentation will be taken into consideration during the selection process.
• The following criteria must be met:
– Presenter’s own work
– Rigorous, novel science
– Manuscript/presentation should describe a completed piece of research with detailed methods, full results and sensible conclusions
– Presenter must demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the subject through their paper, presentation and answers to questions from audience
– The work must have a defined impact; What is the importance of the work for animal health, public health and/or welfare?
Past Winners
You Chang
2024
A multi-host and multi-route transmission model to assess the effect of control measures on bTB dynamics in Ireland
Sébastian Lambert
2023
Supporting policy by estimating the transmission dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 infections in poultry flocks from France and The Netherlands
Irene Bisschop
2022
The association between longevity and animal health in Dutch dairy herds
Brandon Hayes
2022
Elucidating African swine fever transmission patterns between domestic pigs and wild boar in Romania
Jake Thompson
2021
Randomised control trial shows space allowance increases milk production and changes behaviour of housed dairy cows
No award (COVID-19)
2020
Bryony Jones
2019
Exploring local knowledge of sheep and goat disease in the pastoralist Afar region of Ethiopia: implications for peste des petits ruminants disease surveillance
Timothée Vergne
2018
Nomadic movements and infectious disease transmission: tackling avian influenza viruses along the free-grazing duck movement network in Vietnam
Matteo Crotta
2017
Quantitative Risk Assessment of Campylobacter in broiler chickens – assessing the level of contamination at the end of the rearing period
Kaare Græsbøll
2016
How many pooled tests are needed to detect a single positive sample?
Pranav Pandit
2015
Dynamic between herd model for Q fever spread in dairy herds to quantify the impact of different transmission pathways at regional scale
Laura Falzon
2014
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Anthelmintic Resistance in Sheep
Fernanda Dórea
2013
Syndromic surveillance in veterinary medicine using laboratory submission data – lessons learned from two systems
Anne Relun
2012
Estimation of the relative impact of treatment and management factors on the prevention of digital dermatitis by survival analysis
Poster Prizes
SVEPM offers three poster prizes, each worth £100 and a course from the MSc Epidemiology at Utrecht University / UMCU. The awardees are announced by the President at the conference dinner on Thursday evening.
Poster Prize Awardees
2024 – Uppsala, Sweden
2023 – Toulouse, France
2022 – Belfast, Northern Ireland
2021 – Online
2020 – Online
No poster prize winners, as there were no posters presented in the 2020 conference (COVID-19)
2019 – Utrecht, The Netherlands
2018 – Tallinn, Estonia
2017 – Inverness, Scotland
2016 – ELSINGOR, DANMARK
2015 – Gent, Belgium
2014 – Dublin, Ireland
2013 – Madrid, Spain
2012 – Glasgow, Scotland
2011 – Leipzig, Germany
2010 – Nantes, France
2009 – London, UK
Raphaelle Metras
Pilot study for smallholder poultry farms in Northern Vietnam
Nils Toft
Guidelines for establishing the prevalence of paratuberculosis
Clara Marce
Transmission assumptions in paratuberculosis models
2008 – Liverpool, UK
Franz Brulsauer
VD prevalence in Scottish beef suckler herds
Jenny Frossling
Analysis of the reproductive performance in Swedish breeding cats
Thierry Hoch
Quantifying the horizontal transmission of Coxella burnetii, a causative agent of Q-fever, in dairy herds
2007 – Dipoli, Finland
Ruska Rimhanen-Finn
Characteristics of rabies exposures in Finnish inhabitants
Darren Green
Patterns of Atypical Scrapie in Great Britain
Simon Gubbins
The basic reproduction number for bluetongue virus
