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• Using clinical records to assess pain-related welfare in companion animals - a new YouTube video

  

  Happy New Year!  We kick start the New Year with a new YouTube video featuring an interview between Fergus Coutts of the University of Edinburgh and Dan O’Neill, in which they discussed the application of veterinary clinical records for research to …

   05 Jan 2016

• £1.2M Wellcome Trust Fellowship funds research into fundamental challenges of using muscles to power locomotion with legs

  

  Have you ever wondered why you can’t walk and run as fast or efficiently as you can cycle? Or why small children and birds don’t run like adults or ostriches? A new conceptual framework being developed at The Royal Veterinary College is approaching …

   29 Sep 2016

  Have you ever wondered why you can’t walk and run as fast or efficiently as you can cycle? Or why …

• Do owls have superpowers?

  

  Dr Jim Usherwood features on the BBC Two wildlife series Natural World, exploring "Super Powered Owls". Dr Usherwood, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the RVC, investigates the mechanics of terrestrial and aerial locomotion. He appears …

   13 Mar 2015

• Walk This Way

  

  New research by Dr Tatjana Hubel and Dr Jim Usherwood provides fresh insight into the impact of size and speed for the way we humans walk and run. Dr Hubel, working alongside Structure and Motion Lab colleague Dr Usherwood, has been conducting …

   25 Sep 2015

• Equine Pituitary Pars intermedia dysfunction: improving understanding of diagnostic testing

  Mr Edd Knowles (PhD student) has been awarded a Petplan Charitable Trust to work on "Equine Pituitary Pars intermedia dysfunction: improving understanding of diagnostic testing". Pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) is a common condition of …

   24 Jan 2018

  Mr Edd Knowles (PhD student) has been awarded a Petplan Charitable Trust to work on "Equine …

• VetCompass™ explores aging in males and females

  

  Given that the lives of pet dogs are so closely entwined with their owners, we can learn a lot from dogs that can help both dogs themselves and also help the human species. Humans are known to exhibit female-biased survival and multiple sex …

   08 Jun 2018

  Given that the lives of pet dogs are so closely entwined with their owners, we can learn a lot from …

• Modelling the transmission and disease dynamics of toxoplasmosis

  

  Dr Martin Walker has been awarded a BBSRC LIDo PhD studentship to research "Modelling the transmission and disease dynamics of toxoplasmosis". Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which can infect humans and most …

   03 Oct 2019

  Dr Martin Walker has been awarded a BBSRC LIDo PhD studentship to research "Modelling the …

• Emergency and Critical Care

  The Emergency and Critical Care service at the RVC manages both emergency referrals and patients requiring critical care in our intensive care unit. We see many brachycephalic dogs. The reasons for presentation of a brachycephalic breed to the …

• 'Tools & techniques to help advise clients interested in dog breeding'

  'Tools & techniques to help advise clients interested in dog breeding' Dr. Dan O'Neill (VetCompass, RVC) & Aimee Llewellyn (Geneticist & Health Information Manager, UK Kennel Club) British Small Animal Veterinary Association Annual Congress, 20 …

• Congratulations to Dr Maria Diez Leon - One of the most downloaded papers

  

  Animal Welfare Science and Ethics Lecturer Dr. Maria Diez Leon, along with collaborators, have written one of Zoo Biology's most downloaded papers. Congratulations to their Team! The paper is entitled - Improving the sustainability of ex situ …

   05 May 2020

  Animal Welfare Science and Ethics Lecturer Dr. Maria Diez Leon, along with collaborators, have …