Silken Tschofen
Thesis title: What's in the Water: A Mixed Methods Exploration of the One Health Risks of Antimicrobial Resistance in Scottish Wild Swimming Sites
One Health Models of Disease: Science, Ethics, and Society
- Division of Global Agriculture and Food Systems
- The Roslin Institute
Contact details
- Email: s.a.tschofen@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
Easter Bush Campus - City
- Midlothian
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Silken completed her BSc (Hons) in Microbiology at the University of Victoria in Canada. Her Honours dissertation involved working with 3D bioprinted human tissues as models of wound healing and bacterial skin infections. During her undergraduate degree, she also did a co-op working as a Research Assistant at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada studying antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spread across the One Health continuum in peri-urban, and high-density agricultural settings.
For her PhD project, she will use a transdisciplinary, mixed methods approach to engage the wild swimming community to explore how language-driven misconceptions of AMR affect risk perceptions, investigate the significance of AMR and antimicrobial resistance genes in Scotland’s freshwater, and examine how UK AMR policy and safety guidance fits within a One Health framework.