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.

With 18 years of involvement in undergraduate teaching at UNE, Dr Colvin coordinates first-year agriculture units such as ANPR321 Animal Function, Health and Welfare, contributes to curriculum design and assessment, and supervises higher degree research students. Her expertise encompasses small ruminant disease epidemiology, large-scale experiment and dataset management, survey design, digital data collection tools, statistical analysis, industry communications, and scientific publication. She is approved to supervise PhD and HDR students and her work aligns with several UN Sustainable Development Goals including those related to no poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, and life on land.