Research
The School incorporates the Roslin Institute and the Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Systems, alongside a number of interdisciplinary centres and research collaborators.
We aim to make a real difference to animal, environmental and human health, and our alliance with Edinburgh Medical School is summed up in the ethos One Health.
Most of our research is carried out within our major research centres the Roslin Institute and Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Systems.
The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
Our research portfolio also incorporates our interdisciplinary research centres:
- SEBI-Livestock: the Centre for Supporting Evidence-Based Interventions in Livestock
- Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH)
- Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks (EPIC)
- Hospital for Small Animals (HfSA)
The School, with The Roslin Institute and Global Academy, provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students with exceptional opportunities to work at the leading edge of research directly relevant to the improvement of health and welfare of domestic animal species.
The School encompasses the following Divisions:
- Division of Clinical Sciences
- Division of Conservation Science
- Division of Veterinary Biomedical Science
- Veterinary Medical Education
The Roslin Institute is home to the following Divisions:
- Division of Bacteriology
- Division of Functional Genetics
- Division of Epidemiology
- Division of Genome Biology
- Division of Immunology
- Division of Quantitative Biology
- Division of Translational Bioscience
- Division of Virology
The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
Research disciplines include:
- Agricultural Systems
- Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Economics
- Animal Health
- Anti-Microbial Resistance
- Behaviour/Choice
- Data Technologies
- Ecology
- Global Health
- Governance/Ethics
- Healthy Sustainable Diets
- Innovation and Transformation in Global Food Systems
- Innovation in Supply Chains
- Livestock Futures
- Nutrition
- One Health Systems
- Planetary Boundaries
- Plant-Soil Systems
- Science/Industry Integration
- Soil Science
- Tools
Top ranking for REF 2021
In a joint submission to the latest UK Research Excellence Framework exercise, research at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has been ranked number one in the UK for agriculture, food and veterinary sciences by combining Times Higher Education’s ratings for each institution. The judgement, based on the quality and breadth of research, maintains the R(D)SVS and SRUC’s position as the strongest provider in these subject areas. The institutions’ research environment was classified to be 100 per cent world leading or internationally excellent for agriculture, food and veterinary sciences research. The Vet School and SRUC submission was also assessed as being 100 per cent world leading or internationally excellent in terms of the impact its research work has on wider society.
The REF is an assessment of the quality of the research being undertaken at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the impact it has in society.