Testimonials

The range of assessed assignments increased my confidence in critiquing research papers, peer-viewing articles, producing presentations and developing protocols for veterinary procedures for conservation medicine purposes, such as the chemical immobilization of free-ranging wildlife species.

The lecturers were very friendly and accessible and I felt as if I was connected to the university and the year group much more than I thought would be possible for an online programme. Using the skills I learned from the course and the multi-disciplinary approach promoted by the course, I was able to write a proposal for a conservation project than won an award and I am now implementing that project.

Graduates from this programme have published their research in peer-reviewed journals:

• Emily Norris (Graduated 2022) Hedgerows for hedgehogs and campus biodiversity: A prickly challenge for universities 
• Beatriz Alves (Graduated 2020) Epidemiology of a hybrid swarm: Evidence of 11 feline infectious agents circulating in a population of sympatric european wildcat hybrids and free-living domestic cats, in Scotland
• Kurt Arden (Graduation 2020) Yersinia enterocolitica in wild and peridomestic rodents within Great Britain, a prevalence study
• Nicola Earnshaw (Graduated 2020) The health of working dogs in conservation in Africa
• Inga McDermott (Graduated 2020) Seroprevalence of canine distemper virus (CDV) in the free-roaming dog (Canis familiaris) population surrounding Chitwan National Park, Nepal
• Ellie Milnes (Graduated 2020) A randomized clinical trial to compare ketamine-butorphanol-azaperone-medetomidine and detomidine-etorphine-acepromazine for anesthesia of captive Przewalski horses (Equus przewalskii)
• Genevieve Weaver (Graduated 2020) Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in domestic animals, wild pigs, and off-host environmental sampling in Guam, USA
• Olga Nicolas (Graduated 2018) Neoplasms and novel gammaherpesviruses in critically endangered captive European minks (Mustela lutreola)
• Kari-Anne Heald (Graduated 2017) Investigating infectious disease threats to the recovery of the European polecat in Britain
• Yvonne Black (Graduated 2015) Detection and reporting of Ranavirus in amphibians: Evaluation of the roles of the World Organisation for Animal Health and the published literature
• Jenny Cantlay (Graduated 2015) A review of zoonotic infection risks associated with the wild meat trade in Malaysia
• Anita Tolpinrud (Graduated 2015) Infrared thermography as a diagnostic tool for pododermatitis in captive greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus)