Dr Ray Chan
Ray is a human geographer who is interested in the areas of agri-food governance, animal health and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the United Kingdom and China. He is currently working within the DIAL consortium exploring diagnostic innovation and the utilisation of antibiotics in livestock farming in the United Kingdom.
After receiving his Ph.D. in Human Geography from Cardiff University in 2015, Ray worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cardiff University in the European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 project with Gareth Enticott on vaccination practices in Europe and China.
Ray is based at the University of Exeter
Publications
Chan, K. W., Bard, A., Adam, K., Rees, G., Morgan, L., Liz, C., Hinchliffe, S., Barrett, D., Reyher, K., and Buller, H. (2020). Diagnostic Practices and the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Survey of UK Livestock Vets. Veterinary Record, 1-15.
Chan, K. W. (2020). Politics of Smell: Constructing Animal Waste Governmentality and Good Farming Subjectivities in Colonial Hong Kong. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 1055-1074
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654420914320
Maye. D. and Chan, K. W. (2020). On-farm biosecurity in livestock production: farmer behaviour, cultural identities and practices of care. Journal of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 1-15
Maye, D. and Chan K. W. (2020). Contrasting national biosecurity regimes: plant and animal bio-politics in the UK and China. In Fall, J., Francis, R., Schlaepfer, M.A. and Barker, K. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species. Routledge, Abingdon.
Smart, A., Smart, J. and Chan, K. W. (Forthcoming). China’s entangled borders: citizenship, infectious diseases, and invasive species in Robert Peckman (Eds.), Species of Motion: Infectious Diseases and Surveillance Technologies in Southeast Asia, Palgrave Macmillan
Small Research Grants
(1) GW4 Seed Funding Project - Building a communicative pathway to reduce AMR; a study of cattle farmers’ perceptions of on-farm E.coli infections in the UK (£2690)
PI: Ray Chan (Exeter University), Co-Is: Ross Booton (Bristol University), Jonathan Tyrrell (Bristol / Cardiff University), Sion Bayliss (Bath University), Lisa Morgans (Innovation for Agriculture)
(2) Cobot Institute Innovation Fund: Understanding agricultural azole use, impacts on local water bodies and AMR: building on interdisciplinary evidence base in Devon and Bristol.
PI: Susan Conlon (Bristol University), Co-Is: Dhara Malavia (Exeter University), Andrew Jones (Exeter University), Ray Chan (Exeter University), Amiee Murray (Exeter University), Nervo Verdezoto (Cardiff University). (£3,986)
Conference and Presentations
(1) Chan, K. W. and Buller. H. et al. (2020). ‘Diagnostic practices and Drivers of the Use of Rapid Diagnostics to Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Animal Farming in the UK’. Presenter and session chair at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S/EASST) Virtual Conference, Prague, August.
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(2) Invited speaker to talk about ‘Interdisciplinary Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance’ for 60 doctoral students from the South West Doctoral Training Network, University of Exeter (6/2/2020)
