Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/N000811/1
Introduction to mathematical modelling for the environmental and biological sciences
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Dr AS Hoyle, University of Stirling, Computing Science and Mathematics
- Grant held at:
- University of Stirling, Computing Science and Mathematics
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Disease modelling (animals)
- Animal diseases
- Population modelling
- Population Ecology
- Mathematical modelling
- Theoretical biology
- Abstract:
- Students in the biological sciences are increasingly turning to mathematical modelling in the era of big data, the three Rs of animal testing, and remote sensing. Modelling can help them to make sense of complex biological interactions and can help them to make predictions about what might happen in different future scenarios such as finding the optimal way to control a disease or determining how climate change will impact on different populations. However, the students often lack the background necessary to create their own mathematical or statistical models. This course, run by mathematicians, physicists and ecologists with experience in epidemiology and terrestrial and marine ecology, aims to address this skills gap by providing an introduction to basic modelling concepts and a guide to using common skills. We will guide the students through the key steps of researching the question, formulating the model framework, parameterising the model, and model criticism. They will be exposed to a range of modelling techniques and approaches and their pros and cons in terms of what questions they are most appropriate for. We ran the course in January 2014 and found from that experience that they greatly valued the course, they feel better equipped to read papers which involve models and really appreciated the opportunity to build mathematical models of their own system with expert support. We are still in contact with some of them and continue to help them to develop their models. We are also running it in February 2015.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/N000811/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £25,500
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £25,500 |
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