Prof Joe Jackson

I completed my Ph. D. in Parasitology at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. I then did postdoctoral work at the University of Bristol for a number of years before moving to the University of Nottingham. At around the time of the move from Bristol to Nottingham I had started to become interested in the ecological context of vertebrate immune responses. This interest developed further during my time at Nottingham, fostered by interactions with colleagues and, in turn, led on to a move to the University of Liverpool as part of a collaborative project working on parasites in the Kielder field voles system.

After the end of this project I took up a post at Aberystwyth University where I established an independent research group looking, from an ecological perspective, at infection and immunity in a range of wild and domesticated vertebrate systems (including staying involved in collaborative work on the Kielder voles). In December 2015 I took up my post at the University of Salford, where my aim is to keep developing research that better defines the immune system as “real-world” trait.