Flavie Vial

Flavie Vial

Academic History

Academic History

  • 2006-present: PhD "Conservation science for common ground: developing the necessary tools to manage livestock grazing in Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia". My PhD is supervised by Professor Dan Haydon at the University of Glasgow and Professor David Macdonald at WILDCRU ( Oxford University ).
  • 2005-2006: MRes Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Glasgow
  • 2003-2005: BSc Hons. Zoology, University of Glasgow
  • 2002-2003: First year Zoology, University of Royal Holloway , London

Previous research projects

Previous research projects

  • Rabies vaccination strategies in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). (Honours project supervised by Dr Dan Haydon)
  • Energetics of interspecific competition between African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) and lions (Leo panthera). (MRes project supervised by Dr Dan Haydon and done in collaboration with Dr Goran Spong in Cambridge )
  • Factors affecting the prevalence of blood parasites in breeding blue tits (Parus caeruleus) and great tits (Parus major). (MRes project supervised by Dr Kathryn Arnold)

Scholarships & Awards

Scholarships & Awards

  • 2007: British Airways Travel Bursary
  • 2007: Glasgow Natural History Society - Blodwen Lloyd Binns Bequest Fund
  • 2007: Frankfurt Zoological Society - Africa Small Project Fund
  • 2006-2009: University of Glasgow scholarship (IBLS)
  • 2005-2006: Bellahouston Scholarship

Research

Research

My research project is on grazing management in the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

Publications

Publications

  • Vial, F., Cleaveland, S., Rasmussen, G. & Haydon, D. T. Development of vaccination strategies for the management of rabies in African wild dogs. Biol. Conserv. 131, 180-192 (2006).
  • Spong, G., Vial, F., Creel, S. & Haydon, D.T. Energetics of interspecific competition between African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) and lions (Leo panthera): can big carnivores coexist inside reserves? In prep.