Current Research

I work with the SRUC Centre for Epidemiology and Planetary Health (CEPH) and across several research groups at UHI Inverness. At CEPH I work on various data science related projects but focus on network analysis of animal movements. I am also responsible for building a range of shiny applications, ranging from the Epidemiology Resource Centre to internal applications that automate reporting (both interactive and static) for industry stakeholders. Full publication lists can be found on my ORCID and PURE profiles.

• ORCID Profile
• PURE

Shiny Applications

Aside from internal Shiny apps I have built several Shiny servers. Two run off RStudio’s open source Shiny server, whilst the other uses the alternative Shinyproxy hosting model - with docker containers to host the individual applications.

The two publicly available shiny servers are:

• The Online Epidemiology resource centre which I built as part of my work with CEPH. It hosts a number of online models and calculators, all available publicly.
• My own shiny server to use for any apps I develop for teaching or just for my own interest.

Package Development

Whilst I have developed several packages for teaching and internal use, I have also built the satpoint package to extract data from netCDF files and I have forked a version of thesisdown specifically for the UHI - thesisdownrli.

Publications

The links below should take you to a selection of publications (articles/chapters) that I’ve been a part of. For a full list of peer-reviewed journal articles, please see my PURE profile.

• Evaluations of the Disease Surveillance Centre Network in Scotland: What parts has it reached?
• Seeing the data for the trees: Assessing the data maturity and readiness of a UK forestry company
• Targeted Design for a Specialist Working Population: How livestock veterinary surgeons inform the design of web-based interventions that support coping. in Designing Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues
• Quantifying changes in the British cattle movement network or you can read the preprint
• Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus seroprevalence in Scottish finishing pigs between 2006 and 2018
• When Textbook Answers are the Problem the article is on page 19 and the entire journal should be available.
• R Markdown in education the article is on page 72 and the entire journal should be available. If you are interested the R Markdown file that I used to create the article is available from this github repository.
• Blowfly strike in sheep: self-help surveillance for shepherds is unsustainable. Or you can read the prepublished version.
• Difficulties arising from the variety of testing schemes used for bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV). Or you can read the prepublished version.
• Replicating disease spread in empirical cattle networks by adjusting the probability of infection in random networks. Or you can read the prepublished version.
• [The influence of empirical contact networks on modelling diseases in cattle] (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436512000187). This article was also recommended by Professor Matt Keeling for the Faculty of 1000. Read the recommendation.
• The homogenization of orthorhombic piezoelectric composites by the strong-property-fluctuation theory. Or you can read the prepublished version.
• On the homogenization of orthotropic elastic composites by the strong-property-fluctuation theory. Or you can read the prepublished version.
• On the Bergman-Milton bounds for the homogenization of dielectric composite materials. Or you can read the prepublished version.
• My PhD Thesis: On the estimation of the electromagnetic, elastodynamic and piezoelectric properties of homogenized composite materials which can be downloaded from the University of Edinburgh.

Selected Presentations and Posters

• Duncan AJ, Scottish Pig Health Network: making better use of data for health improvements, Oral Presentation, FOSS4GUK2019, Edinburgh, September 2019.

• Ribeiro R, Eze J, Gunn GJ, Gilbert L, Macrae A, Duncan AJ, Reeves A, Auty H, Using Citizen Science to improve the knowledge of Tick Distribution in Scotland, Poster Presentation, Space, Place, Face and Technology, Inverness, 2018.

• Duncan AJ, Gunn GJ, Correia-Gomes C., Humphry RW, A shiny online epidemiological resource centre, SVEPM, Inverness, 2017.

• Duncan AJ, Gunn GJ, Eze J, Humphry RW, Using network metrics to predict disease spread from animal movements of the Cattle Tracing scheme, Poster Presentation, World Buiatrics Congress, Dublin, 2016.

• Duncan AJ, Gunn GJ, Auty H, Humphry RW, An online calculator for assisting in the design of herd level prevalence surveys whilst taking into account test imperfections, Poster Presentation, World Buiatrics Congress, Dublin, 2016.

• Duncan AJ, Gunn GJ, Humphry RW, Do too many tests spoil the eradication of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea, Poster Presentation, World Buiatrics Congress, Dublin, 2016.

• Duncan AJ, Auty H, Gunn GJ, Humphry RW, An online calculator for assisting in the design of herd-level prevalence surveys whilst taking into account test imperfections, Poster Presentation, 14th ISVEE Conference Yucatan, Mexico 2015. Poster No. 242.

• Noble LR, Jones CS, Frost MB, Verspoor E, Duncan AJ, Bickham JW, The challenge of identifying management units in large, vagile marine animals: meta-analysis reveals why conservation geneticists should think smart not big, Paper and Oral Presentation, Meeting of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commision Slovenia, 2014. Paper No. SC/65b/BRG02.

• Macleod CJ, Duncan AJ, Ross NP, Duncan JL, Is Aortic Aneurysm Growth Rate Affected by Aneurysm Risk Factors? Poster Presentation RCSEd President’s Meeting, 2013

• Ross NP, Macleod CJ, Duncan AJ, Duncan JL, Is Aortic Aneurysm Growth Rate Affected by Aneurysm Risk Factors? Full Oral Presentation Association of Surgeons GB&I Glasgow, 2013

• Duncan AJ, Mackay TG, Lakhtakia A, On the homogenization of piezoelectric metamaterials via the strong-property-fluctuation-theory: a numerical study, Proceedings of SPIE 7392: Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications II, San Diego, California, USA, 2009, Paper No. 73920K.

• Mackay TG, Lakhtakia A, Duncan AJ, On limitations of conventional approaches to homogenization applied to uniaxial dielectric composite materials, Proceedings of SPIE 7404: Nanostructed Thin Films II, San Diego, California, USA, 2009, Paper No. 75910T.

• Duncan AJ, Mackay TG, Lakhtakia A, On conventional approaches to homogenization applied to unconventional composite materials, Photon 2008, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 2008.

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