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• Dr Zoe Davies brings biomechanics of walking to North London community

  

  The Structure and Motion Lab’s Dr Zoe Davies paid a visit to a community group for older people in North London to talk about her and Professor Jim Usherwood’s Wellcome Trust funded research into human and animal walking.

   07 Jun 2019

• RVC first in the UK for overall student satisfaction

  

  The RVC has been ranked by its students as providing the best quality courses of all UK universities in the National Student Survey (NSS)

   09 Aug 2017

• Economics of heifer rearing

  A news article in the Cattle Site features an address that Dr Alana Boulton made at the recent British Society of Animal Science conference in Chester about a study in which she examines in detail the economics of heifer rearing.   The outcomes of …

   21 Apr 2015

  A news article in the Cattle Site features an address that Dr Alana Boulton made at the recent …

• New VetCompass publication: Epidemiology of canine hyperadrenocorticism in the UK

  

  A new VetCompass paper published in Journal of Small Animal Practice describes the epidemiology of hyperadrenocorticism in dogs attending primary-care practice in the UK.    This study aimed to describe the signalment, prevalence and risk factors …

   11 Jun 2016

• New VetCompass™ Paper: Road Traffic Accidents in Dogs

  

  A new VetCompass™ study of almost 200,000 dogs has revealed some fascinating insights into Road Traffic Accident (RTA) events in dogs in the UK. The paper, published in the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, reveals that 4 in every 1 …

   18 Mar 2018

  A new VetCompass™ study of almost 200,000 dogs has revealed some fascinating insights into Road …

• International Dog Health Workshop 2019: Summary report published

  

  VetCompass researchers attended the International Partnership for Dogs (IPFD) International Dog Health Workshop (IDHW) in 2019. A report of the meeting has been published in Canine Medicine and Genetics, which included VetCompass researchers as …

   11 May 2020

• Wildlife health considerations in conservation translocations

  

  A team of researchers, including Katie Beckmann, a PhD student at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), have conducted a study into the health outcomes in wildlife reintroduction projects. Conservation translocations as they are formally termed are …

   27 Jul 2022

  A team of researchers, including Katie Beckmann, a PhD student at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) …

• New VetCompass PhD aims to find Causes rather than Associations

  

  VetCompass are excited to announce that their new “VetCompass eClinical Trials” PhD project, supported by Dogs Trust, will commence in October 2021. Although veterinarians are encouraged to apply ‘evidence based principles’, there is a paucity of …

   26 Jul 2021

  VetCompass are excited to announce that their new “VetCompass eClinical Trials” PhD project, …

• New study examines medial canthoplasty surgical management of brachycephalic ocular syndrome in dogs

  

  A recent research study has examined a type of surgical management used to address brachycephalic ocular syndrome (BOS), a condition prevalent in popular flat-faced (brachycephalic) dog breeds. Due to their 'bulging eyes', a medial canthoplasty (MC) …

   27 Jun 2023

• RVC’s status as a world-leading specialist veterinary institution confirmed by outcome of HEFCE’s institution-specific funding review

  

  RVC to receive enhanced institution-specific funding in recognition of its world-leading teaching and quality of the learning environment

   10 May 2016