Poultry industry matters, especially those relating to bird health and welfare, food safety, zoonoses and antimicrobial stewardship • Poultry carcass condemnations (offical controls) and meat quality, in particular where this may relate to causes on farm and in transport • Economic impact of animal diseases (and their mitigations, e.g. vaccination) in poultry and other species • Issues relating to international animal health, including trade • Biosecurity design and implementation

Clinical negligence and/or personal injury from infectious diseases • Diagnostic uncertainty and complex causation • Healthcare-associated infection • Respiratory infections • Laboratory diagnostics and containment level 3 biosafety • Infection prevention and control failures • Decontamination and sterilisation-related infection incidents • Environmental infection risk (including damp/mould, ventilation and water systems)

Agriculture - research and development, practical applications • Ethics in research and on-farm • Product development requirements and regulatory policy • Tertiary education (postgraduate students) - supervision, policy, quality of research and teaching • Biosecurity - water quality, on-farm policy and practices • Environmental emissions from farming - control and application, grant funding, planning applications, policy • Disease prevention and control of spread • Animal ethics and welfare Time split between UK and New Zealand and free to trav...