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• workRoom C05 Gateway
  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• Rachel.Clifton@nottingham.ac.uk

Recent Publications

• CLIFTON, RACHEL, HYDE, ROBERT, CAN, EDNA, BARDEN, MATTHEW, MANNING, AL, BRADLEY, ANDREW, GREEN, MARTIN and O'GRADY, LUKE, 2024. Using Object-Oriented Simulation to Assess the Impact of the Frequency and Accuracy of Mobility Scoring on the Estimation of Epidemiological Parameters for Lameness in Dairy Herds Animals. 14(12), 1760
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, BAMFORD, KATE and GREEN, LAURA, 2023. “I didn’t see a sheep”: perspectives of lecturers and students at veterinary schools in Great Britain on learning about lameness in sheep Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 10,
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, MONAGHAN, EMMA M., GREEN, MARTIN J., PURDY, KEVIN J. and GREEN, LAURA E., 2022. Differences in composition of interdigital skin microbiota predict sheep and feet that develop footrot SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 12(1),
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, 2021. Lameness in sheep: a practical guide to non-contagious foot diseases: Livestock Livestock. 26(5), 254-260

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Rachel is an Assistant Professor in the Ruminant Population Health group. She qualified as a veterinary surgeon from University of Cambridge in 2010 and completed her PhD at University of Warwick in molecular epidemiology of ovine footrot (2013-2017). Rachel worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Warwick and University of Birmingham before joining the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science in 2021.

Rachel's main research interests are microbial communities, particularly the bacterial interactions involved in the initiation of polymicrobial diseases, and the application of advanced statistical and machine learning approaches to microbiome research.

Rachel's areas of expertise are molecular microbiology, epidemiology, data analysis including hierarchical models and machine learning, and ruminant health and welfare. She has experience of designing, conducting and analysing data from longitudinal studies and working with big data from next generation sequencing and precision livestock sensor technologies.

• CLIFTON, RACHEL, HYDE, ROBERT, CAN, EDNA, BARDEN, MATTHEW, MANNING, AL, BRADLEY, ANDREW, GREEN, MARTIN and O'GRADY, LUKE, 2024. Using Object-Oriented Simulation to Assess the Impact of the Frequency and Accuracy of Mobility Scoring on the Estimation of Epidemiological Parameters for Lameness in Dairy Herds Animals. 14(12), 1760
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, BAMFORD, KATE and GREEN, LAURA, 2023. “I didn’t see a sheep”: perspectives of lecturers and students at veterinary schools in Great Britain on learning about lameness in sheep Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 10,
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, MONAGHAN, EMMA M., GREEN, MARTIN J., PURDY, KEVIN J. and GREEN, LAURA E., 2022. Differences in composition of interdigital skin microbiota predict sheep and feet that develop footrot SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 12(1),
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, 2021. Lameness in sheep: a practical guide to non-contagious foot diseases: Livestock Livestock. 26(5), 254-260
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, REEVES, MICHELLE C., KALER, JASMEET and GREEN, LAURA E., 2020. Best practice versus farm practice: Perspectives of lecturers and students at agricultural colleges in England on management of lameness in sheep JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES. 74, 67-75
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, GIEBE, KATHARINA, LIU, NICOLA L. B. H., PURDY, KEVIN J. and GREEN, LAURA E., 2019. Sites of persistence of Fusobacterium necrophorum and Dichelobacter nodosus: a paradigm shift in understanding the epidemiology of footrot in sheep SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 9,
• GREEN, LAURA and CLIFTON, RACHEL, 2018. Diagnosing and managing footrot in sheep: an update IN PRACTICE. 40(1), 17-+
• CLIFTON, RACHEL, GREEN, LAURA E. and PURDY, KEVIN J., 2018. Development and validation of a multiple locus variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) scheme for Fusobacterium necrophorum VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY. 213, 108-113
• CLIFTON, RACHEL and GREEN, LAURA, 2017. Footrot in sheep: key messages from recent research: Livestock Livestock. 22(3), 150-156
• CLIFTON, RACHEL and GREEN, LAURA, 2016. Pathogenesis of ovine footrot disease: a complex picture VETERINARY RECORD. 179(9), 225-227
• CLIFTON, RACHEL and GREEN, L. E., 2016. On the treatment, control and elimination of ovine footrot: A comparative review: CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources. 11:, 053