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RESEARCH STRATEGY OBJECTIVES
INTRODUCTION
he RVC’s research mission is The QS World University Rankings, which leading to a growing focus on the cost
to create, communicate and measure academic reputation and citation recovery of research activity, which is
apply scientifi c knowledge in of published research, have placed RVC estimated to average 70% across the
order to improve the health as the world’s leading veterinary school for higher education sector.
Tand welfare of animals and four consecutive years (2020-24). The biological sciences are experiencing
people and the environments in which they The RVC was awarded full University a period of discovery and rapid
live. status in 2023, providing a new advancement, driven by the development
The scope of the RVC’s research and opportunity to consider how research and and availability of new technologies in
innovation is defi ned by this mission – we innovation is governed and fostered. multiple fi elds. In the next decade, animal
aim to conduct world-leading research UK bioscience research has in recent and veterinary sciences have the potential
and discovery in veterinary medicine, years been supported by relatively steady to be transformed by the application
comparative biomedicine, One Health, levels of funding, and the association of of tools such as genome sequencing,
disease biology, animal welfare, and allied the UK to Horizon Europe ended a period biosensing, gene editing, robotics,
disciplines. of uncertainty. The UK government’s bioinformatics, and artifi cial intelligence/
The past two decades have seen 10-year Life Sciences Vision, published machine learning. Directed investment in
sustained growth in the scale, range and in 2021, includes an aim to maintain people and skills will be needed to realise
impact of research at the RVC. In the and grow investment in life sciences this potential and to enable the RVC to
2021 Research Excellence Framework, research and to support the UK’s rapidly fulfi l its responsibilities to animal and
RVC ranked fi rst in the UK for research expanding bioscience and MedTech human health in a rapidly changing world.
power and impact in the veterinary, industries. However, fi nancial pressures
agriculture, food and sciences. are increasing at UK’s universities,
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