Research Programmes
The Royal Veterinary College focuses on two multidisciplinary research programmes and organises its research-active academics and their postgraduate students into a variety of Units and Labs, led by a senior member of staff, within these programmes. The programmes are:
- Infection and Immunity
- Lifestyle including Lifestyle (Reproduction and Development)
Research Centres
Centre for Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare is central to most of our research and so goes across our two major programmes and is co-ordinated through the Centre for Animal Welfare. Professor Christopher Wathes leads this centre and co-ordinates research of welfare significance across the college.
Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases (CEEED Centre)
The disciplines of Epidemiology, Microbiology, Pathology, Immunology and Clinical Science are drawn together in the Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases (CEEED Centre), opened in 2008 and designed to facilitate multi-disciplinary research in Infectious Diseases.
Structure and Motion Lab
The Structure and Motion Laboratory has world leading facilities to study locomotion. It provides a unique facilty to study how animals move and conducts cutting-edge interdisciplinary research from basic to applied contributing to expertise to both research programmes. The leaders of this Centre of Excellence are at the forefront of developing technologies to study animal movement.
Clinical Investigation Centre
The RVC is unique among European Vet Schools in having a Clinical Investigation Centre, co-ordinating disciplined study of its clinical caseload through its electronic patient record system and undertaking Phase II Clinical Trials under a Home Office licence.
Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning
Within our Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, pedagogical research is co-ordinated by the LIVE team. They aim to ensure that veterinary education meets the needs of capable committed, independent learners, from entry to retirement through an innovative programme of educational development and research.