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• Clinical benchmarking

  VetCompass enables detailed review of clinical activities across the breadth of clinics in the UK that have provided useful clinical benchmarking data

• RVC research discovers hippos' ability to become airborne

  

  A new study from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) into the movement and gaits of hippopotamuses on land has found that while they almost exclusively trot, the fastest-moving hippos become airborne for substantial periods of time. This research …

   02 Jul 2024

• Royal Veterinary College walking with giraffes

  

  Have you ever wondered how a giraffe’s long thin legs can support its weight and transport its bulky body as it walks for miles across the plains of sub-Saharan Africa? Researchers from The Royal Veterinary College's Structure and Motion Lab aim to …

   25 Jun 2015

• VetCompass presentation at ISVEE, Mexico

  

  Earlier this month, VetCompass was well represented at an international epidemiology conference - the 14th meeting of International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology (ISVEE 2015) in Yucatan, Mexico. Dr Dan O’Neill gave a talk on the prevalence …

   13 Nov 2015

• VetCompass featured on TV

  

    VetCompass was featured in a TV show this week! ‘A Shoppers Guide to Saving Money - Pets and Printer Ink’ was aired on Channel 4 at 8.30pm Monday November 8th 2015. Team member, Dr Dan O’Neill talked about a recent VetCompass study  …

   10 Nov 2015

• Structure and Motion researchers get children Stepping Into Science at The Big Bang Fair

  

  Last week, researchers from Structure and Motion attended The Big Bang Fair at Birmingham NEC with their activity ‘Stepping Into Science’, designed by Dr Jim Usherwood and Dr Zoe Self. The Stepping Into Science project is part of Dr Usherwood’s Wellcome Trust funded research and combines public engagement with data collection.

   23 Mar 2016

• Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens

  

  RVC's Professor in Animal Welfare, Dr. Christine Nicol, has edited this new publication - Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens. The publication draws on Christine's and the contributors' extensive knowledge in …

   06 Oct 2020

  RVC's Professor in Animal Welfare, Dr. Christine Nicol, has edited this new publication - …

• MedTech SuperConnector Award

  

  Dr Ben Swift (Research Fellow in Antimicrobial Resistance) has been awarded funding by the MedTech SuperConnector to explore the use of bacteriophage technology that he has invented.  This was originally designed to diagnose mycobacterial diseases …

   29 Jul 2021

  Dr Ben Swift (Research Fellow in Antimicrobial Resistance) has been awarded funding by the MedTech …

• We welcome Camilla Pegram in to her new role within the VetCompass™ team

  

  Camilla has recently gained a Merit in her VetCompass™ Research Master's (Urinary incontinence in bitches: Associations with neutering) and we are excited to welcome her back in her new role as a Research Assistant. She will now be working on a …

   03 Oct 2018

• New concepts in research suggest that non-human animals also suffer boredom

  

  Dr Charlotte Burn, Senior Lecturer in Animal Welfare and Behaviour Science at the Royal Veterinary College, has recently published work suggesting that non-human animals also suffer with boredom.

   15 Aug 2017

  Boredom when it is severe and prolonged is torment to humans and can cause dangerous or criminal …