Research courses
Our active research community benefits from links with leading research institutions, veterinary practices and the wider veterinary industry. Faculty members' research activities extend beyond school boundaries, with national and international collaborations in fields ranging from biosciences and psychology to business and the arts.
What we are researching
Research areas include but are not limited to the following:
- Infectious diseases and zoonoses
- Pathology
- Food safety and food security
- Epidemiology
- Veterinary public health
- Digital innovation in animal health
- Nutrition
- Metabolic disease
- Genetics
- Vaccinology
- Immunology
- Neurology
- Anatomy
- Physiology
- Orthopaedics
- Biomechanics
- Bio-imaging
- Animal behaviour
- Welfare and ethics
- Veterinary education.
Veterinary Medicine and Science PhD
Depending on the nature of your research project, you might be mostly based at a desk, a laboratory, a clinic, in the field, or a combination of two or more of these.
Explore our departments
If you are interested in doing a PhD with us, please look at the interests of our School's research departments and get in contact with an academic.
Freddie Dicks, shares her experience of successfully publishing her research in the Journal Vaccines as a third year Vet Student at the University of Surrey that also resulted in Reader of Music, Milton Mermikides sonifying the data from Freddie's research to convey sentiment in new ways.
World-class facilities
We’re home to world-class facilities, including outstanding research laboratories, veterinary clinical skills centres and a Veterinary Pathology centre with high containment laboratories.
Studentships
Investigating the role of sheep and goat in interspecies transmission of pestiviruses in cattle and pig populations in the UK
Funding information:
Funding will cover University tuition fees at the UK/ home rate and a stipend for three and half years at RCUK levels (£19,237 per year). The PhD studentship is expected to commence in October 2024.Proteotranscriptomic investigation of equine exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage: a potential new era of clinical diagnostics
Funding information:
The funding offer includes 3 years of stipend (£19,237 per year).A collaborative approach to biomarker discovery for equine grass sickness
Funding information:
UKRI standard stipend £19,237 for 2024-25 (with inflationary increase of 6% p.a. for 2025-26) Student registration fees covered Proteomics short course funding £2,500 UK conference attendance (x2) £900 Expert support
The Doctoral College supports the academic and professional development of postgraduate researchers to ensure our world-leading research continues to grow. There is also an extensive Researcher Development Programme run at university level.
What our students say
Read our student profiles to discover first-hand what it's like to study with us.
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