The BSAVA PetSavers Student Experience

Our students benefit hugely from undertaking a funded research project, gaining valuable lab experience and presentation skills. Hear from some of them:

Alexander Davies - Small Animal Primary Care Clinician

Alex Davies

As an undergraduate vet at the RVC, Alex carried out a retrospective analysis of feline lymphoma of the nervous system that was funded by BSAVA PetSavers.

Read what he found most rewarding about his study and how presenting at BSAVA Congress boosted his confidence and communication skills in our interview with him.

Listen to Alex talk about his passion for practice-based research as a primary care vet in this podcast.

Rebecca Verhoven

Harper Adams veterinary nursing student Rebecca Verhoven compared cotton wool and non-woven gauze swabs as materials to clean the pre-operative surgical site of ovariohysterectomies.

Read about the motivation behind Becky’s research.

Sze Lynn Yuen from Cambridge vet school and Emily Blackwell from Liverpool University

Vet students Sze Lynn Yuen from Cambridge vet school and Emily Blackwell from Liverpool vet school

Sze Lynn and Emily both undertook student research projects in 2021 and presented their findings at BSAVA Congress 2022. Their abstract presentations are free to access here.

Emily’s presentation won her the BSAVA PetSavers Clinical Abstract Award, and Sze Lynn discusses her project here.