Clinical research
Our veterinary clinicians provide an expert referral centre via the Small Animal Hospital, the Weipers Centre for Equine Welfare and the Scottish Centre for Production Animal Health & Welfare for animal owners and referring practitioners throughout the UK.
We have ongoing clinical research in equine and production animal medicine, which together with small animal specialisms is developing new understanding, techniques and applications in neurophysiology (including anaesthesia and analgesia), clinical imaging, veterinary diagnostics and pharmacology, internal medicine (cardiovascular, endocrinology and oncology) and statistics.
Titles of Current PhD Projects
| Studies to Characterise Ovarian Tumours in the Mare |
| Diagnostic Imaging and Surgical Anatomy |
| Quantitative Image Analysis in Equine Surgery |
| Investigating the Possible Health-Promotion Modes of Action of Phytase |
| Development of an in-vitro Continuous Culture Model of the Equine Hindgut Enabling Detailed Study of the Microbial Ecosystem and its Association with Overall Health |
| Quantifying the Risk of (fatal) Injury for Individual Horses on Entering a Race in North America and Developing Automated Start Entry Risk Indicators |
| Studies on the Effects of Second Hand Tobacco Smoke on Canine Telomeres as a Model of Environmental Health |
| Peripartal Disease and Reproductive Function in High Yielding Dairy Cows |
| Validation & Optimisation of Succeed Faecal Occult Blood Test |
| Clinical and Molecular Investigation of CNS Trypanosomiasis in Working Equidae: Characterisation of the Disease Syndrome |
| Development of Post Operative Feeding Protocols for Equids |
| Improving Sarcoid Management: an Epidemiological and Molecular Approach |
| Equine Piroplasmosis: Evaluating the Threat to the UK and Ireland |
Postgraduate Research Training Enquiries
Any informal enquiries regarding applying for postgraduate research training should be made by emailing peter.hastie@glasgow.ac.uk, PG Convenor, SVM