Veterinary Medicine and Science University of Surrey

Overview

On the Veterinary Medicine and Science PhD offered at University of Surrey , you'll have access to state-of-the-art facilities across the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at Surrey or at a collaborating institution (or both), with support from our expert academics.

What you will study

Our PhD is research-based, so you’ll spend most of your time developing a research question, conducting original research, analysing your results and writing up your research findings, all under the guidance of your project supervisors.

Examples of current PhD student projects include:

• Disentangling the role of Ascaris β-tubulin isotypes in the emergence of anthelmintic resistance
• Rabies epidemiology and control
• The role of the microbiome and circulating endothelial cells in the pathobiology of cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV).

Depending on the nature of your research project, you might do computational analysis work at a desk, or experimental work in a laboratory, a clinic or in the field, or a combination of these.

You can work on your project on-site at the School of Veterinary Medicine or, depending on your research, at another facility in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. If you work from a collaborating institution, you’ll need to come to the University of Surrey periodically to attend training sessions, examinations and meet your supervisors.