Research

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.

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:

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.

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.