BVA Overseas Travel Grants 2004

01 October 2004

The BVA travel scholarship scheme makes available a series of grants to assist veterinary undergraduates to visit developing countries.  Three grants of £500, for projects undertaken during 2004, were awarded to:

Wendy Beauvais (Royal Veterinary College) to visit Kyrgyzstan to undertake an investigation into ways of improving productivity in Kyrgyz herds;

Charlotte Joyce (University of Cambridge Veterinary School) to study the resistance to parasitic helminths in indigenous African ruminants in Kenya;  and

Dennis Ryan (University of Glasgow Veterinary School) to carry out a project to estimate the importance of campylobacterosis in the foodchain in Morogoro, Tanzania.

A further three travel grants of £500 supported by the World Association of Transport Animal Welfare and Studies (TAWS), in collaboration with the BVA, were awarded to:

Kelly Bowlt (Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh) to study harness injuries in equids at the Animal Care in Egypt (ACE) clinic in Luxor;

Andrew Fiske-Jackson (Liverpool Veterinary School) to investigate the prevalence of dental abnormalities in donkeys presented to refuges run by the Society for The Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA) in Morocco, and their association with condition score;  and

Kevin McPeake (Glasgow Veterinary School) to undertake studies on the welfare of donkeys and oxen in the Dodoma area of Tanzania.

Notes for Editors:

1. The BVA travel scholarship scheme, instituted in March 1983. awards grants annually to undergraduates attending a veterinary school in the United Kingdom. Applicants are required to be in their clinical years and should be undertaking a project which includes a strong element of agricultural development. The project should be of benefit both to the student and the country concerned. Since the scholarship was instituted in 1983, grants have been awarded to 73 veterinary students enabling them to undertake projects in 34 different developing countries.  For further information please contact Helena Cotton at BVA on 020 7636 6541 or by e-mail: helenac@bva.co.uk
2. The TAWS grants support veterinary undergraduates undertaking projects involving working transport animals or animals used for draught work in developing countries.  For further information on the work of TAWS visit: www.taws.org
3. For further information on the work of SPANA visit: www.spana.org or ACE: www.ace-egypt.org.uk

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