Jill Mackay
Programme Director (International Animal Welfare Ethics And Law)
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJill Mackay is a Programme Director and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh with eight years of academic and research experience spanning veterinary education, animal behaviour, and welfare. She specialises in research methodology, open science practices, and combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and has developed a reputation as a practical “stats person” who evaluates novel methods. Jill is an active science communicator and public engagement practitioner—author of Animal Personalities and the author of a soft-science blog—bridging academic rigour with accessible knowledge transfer. Her work uniquely ties human behaviour change and education strategies to veterinary outcomes, informed by a PhD in animal behaviour and a track record of managing international MSc programmes and knowledge-transfer projects.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Animal behaviour, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Animal behaviour at The University of EdinburghPark Mains High SchoolM.Sci Zoology, M.Sci Zoology at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (24)
get-started8
dump7
development-environment7
regression-models6
ide6
rstudio6
scatter-plot6
r6
hypothesis-testing5
mathematica5
r-package5
tidy4
python4
editor4
documented3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jillymackay/BeginnersTextMining
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
jillymackay/commoncode
Nov 2018 - Aug 2024
Just a repository to dump a bunch of stuff I've found useful over the years so I don't need to keep looking it up
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
pythoncppkeepneeddump
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