Rate My Professor Alison Colvin

Dr Alison Colvin is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sustainable Ruminant Production Systems in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England. She holds a PhD focused on the use of intensive rotational grazing for controlling gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep, along with honours qualifications from the University of Sydney. Her research specialises in small ruminant health, ruminant parasitology, disease epidemiology, and One Health approaches, with additional work on farmer surveys, integrated parasite management, and animal production systems. Dr Colvin has coordinated mobile data acquisition for the ACIAR Goat Production Systems and Marketing project in Lao PDR and Vietnam, including development of CommCare applications, data collation, and statistical analysis. She has managed national benchmarking surveys on Australian sheep parasite control practices funded by Australian Wool Innovation and contributes to projects examining leptospirosis serosurveillance and climate change impacts.