Bristol Vegan Vets (BVV)
- Guest Speakers Night - Careers in Animal Advocacy and more with Dr Andrew Knight and Dr Alice Brough @ Langford Conference Room, Communal Building, Bristol Veterinary School Thursday 30-04-2026 - 18:30 until Thursday 30-04-2026 - 21:00
Guest Speakers Night - Careers in Animal Advocacy and more with Dr Andrew Knight and Dr Alice Brough @ Langford
Join us for our guest speakers night with final two talks of the year from Dr Andrew Knight (veteriary professor of animal welfare) and Dr Alice Brough (pig veternarian, whistleblower and campaigner). 🐷 The evening will run as:
6:30pm - 7:30pm Dr Andrew Knight - High Impact Careers in Animal Advocacy 🐄
Most of us want to advance animal welfare. Traditionally, that has usually meant doing a good job in clinical practice. Recently however, much higher impact pathways have become available for veterinarians seeking to maximise their positive impacts for animals. The presenter started as a vet student campaigning against curricular animal killing, then became a small animal vet, and later progressed to become one of the most active veterinary animal advocates globally. This presentation shares his story, including some of the ultra-high impact animal advocacy projects he’s worked on. It includes a set of slides from his animal advocacy adventures in the Caribbean and other exotic locations. He hopes this will convince you all to become professional animal advocates. Career choices in animal welfare and advocacy will be discussed, and veterinary specialist pathways in animal welfare will be reviewed. Attendees will gain an understanding of the very high impact animal advocacy pathways that have recently become available to veterinarians.
Whilst a Western Australian veterinary student in 2000, Andrew Knight caused great controversy by refusing to kill animals during his surgical and preclinical training. Instead, he helped establish a humane surgical training program, based partly on neutering homeless animals from animal shelters. Since then he’s had a particularly interesting career. Andrew is a now Veterinary Professor of Animal Welfare affiliated with three universities, including the same veterinary school that nearly expelled him as a student. He is an internationally accredited veterinary specialist in animal welfare; a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and a Principal Fellow of Advance HE. He has many publications, websites, and social media videos on animal welfare issues, which have attracted numerous awards. He edited the Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare (2023). This summarises all main animal welfare issues, and key animal law in all major world regions. It’s available fully open access viawww.aknight.info/aw-book.
7:30pm Q&A and break
7:45pm - 8:45pm Dr Alice Brough - TBC talk title
8:45pm Q&A and finish
We will be providing pizza and soft drinks for everybody, from local Bristolian pizza chain Pizzarova. Please please make sure if you are planning on coming to pick up a ticket, so we can be sure to get the right amount of pizza for all. 🍕 Obviously all the pizza we pick up will be vegan, and there is an option on the questionnaire when you get a ticket if you would like a gluten free option (please note these are cooked in the same oven so there may be traces of gluten). 😊
**THE DEADLINE FOR BEING GUARANTEED PIZZA IS TO GET A TICKET BY 8PM WEDNESDAY 29TH APRIL - AFTER THIS WE WILL TRY OUR BEST**
Read more about Andrew and his work here: https://www.andrewknight.info/about/bio/
You can learn more about Alice from Youtube channel here, and please do follow her on instagram too.📸
The event will be FREE for everybody - so grab your ticket to sign up for some great talks and free pizza!! 🍕
The event will be held in the Conference Room, next to the Centaur Arms in the Communal building at Langford. See below for the location - the U2 bus runs from Bristol pretty frequently (schedule can be found here) for getting back and forth. Or if you're already for a day of lectures/rotations then it's a perfect fit to grab your evening pizza and pet nutrition talk. 🌱 Here is the link to get a FREE U2 pass to get from Bristol to Langford for the talk if you don't already have one - https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=MH_ksn3NTkql2rGM8aQVG8tPO-dO20tIhVBo7rtLEmRUMVUwSlMxOUczNFFCMTBVU1E1NkpNUUc3VCQlQCN0PWcu&route=shorturl.
Excited to see some of you there - please feel free to message or join our WhatsApp chat here if you have any questions. 🌞
Venue/Timing
Venue : Conference Room, Communal Building, Bristol Veterinary School
Type: Alcohol Free Events, Social, Society Events, Talks and Lectures
Start Date: Thursday 30-04-2026 - 18:30
End date: Thursday 30-04-2026 - 21:00
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Contact Details
Jemima Greenwood
ft18846@bristol.ac.uk
07740861698
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