BVA:AWF Divisional Representatives during 2009/2010
The BVA AWF is supported by a network of about 50 veterinary surgeons from the BVA's specialist and territorial divisions. They are known as divisional representatives and their role is to help trustees identify welfare issues and promote the work of the Foundation at grassroots level. To read the BVA AWF divisional representatives' role description please click here.
BVA AWF representatives can be contacted through their division secretaries as listed on the BVA website.
Please note: the list of biographies below is currently incomplete.
Association of Veterinary Students |
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Myfanwy Hill
Myfanwy is a second year Veterinary Student from the University of Bristol. As AVS welfare Officer she represents all the Veterinary Students of Great Britain and Ireland from the eight different schools.
Her interests include welfare and ethics, and neurology, in which she hopes to intercalate later in her studies.
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Association of Veterinarians in Industry (AVI) |
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Peter Watson
After qualifying in 1975, Peter worked for 5 years in a mixed mainly farm animal practice in mid Wales before joining the animal health pharmaceutical industry in which he has worked for 30 years across the whole range of Technical Services, marketing support, clinical development trials under both Animal Test Certificate and Home Office Scientific Procedures Legislation.
As a career break he had a mid life crisis in the early 1980’s and lived on an Island off the Welsh coast shared with 10,000 rabbits as well as 300 sheep and 80 red deer but eventually returned to reality and a paid job.
Peter currently works as a consultant carrying out mainly regulatory affairs work and clinical development of new veterinary medicines. |
British Cattle Veterinary Association |
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Kate Richards
Kate is a veterinary surgeon and chartered marketer with a Diploma in Marketing and has worked in both the public and private sectors in veterinary, communications and marketing roles.
She has been on the British Cattle Veterinary Association Council for four years and is currently Programme Secretary and a member of the Education and Welfare Standing Committees and the Responsibility and Cost Sharing Working Group. |
Eastern Counties Veterinary Society |
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Graham Duncanson
Graham qualified from Bristol in 1966. After a short tropical medicine course, he worked in Kenya for eight years where his main work was with cattle, sheep, goats and camels. He was privileged to see ‘Rinderpest’, ‘Contagious Bovine Pleural Pneumonia’ and ‘Foot and Mouth Disease’; he also investigated tick transmitted diseases and ‘trypanosomiasis’. Since returning to the UK, Graham has worked in a mixed practice in North Walsham; mainly working with farm animals and horses. He obtained his MSc (VetGP) in 2003 and DProf in 2007; his area of research was ‘The Veterinary Literature and Post Graduate Education’. He has been a member of the Eastern Counties Veterinary Society for more than thirty years and became the welfare officer when he retired as president of the society. |
Pig Veterinary Society |
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Annie Davis BVMS MRCVS
Annie qualified from Glasgow in 1997 and has worked as a pig practitioner at the George Veterinary Group in Malmesbudy, Wiltshire since.
Her main areas of interest are fertility and reproductive problems, performance recording and on-farm training. |
Society of Greyhound Veterinarians |
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Raymond Gee
Raymond qualified more than 50 years ago and although now retired from his small-animal practice continues his involvement with the greyhound racing industry that spans more than 40 years. This includes experience as a track veterinary surgeon, a breeder and an owner. He is Senior Vice- President of the SGV, a Trustee of the Retired Greyhound Trust and currently owns one of the best staying greyhounds in the country – Westmead Aoifa. He is proud of his involvement through the SGV in current welfare legislation and consultation with government on current issues involving greyhounds, and can be approached for help and advice in all matters relating to greyhound science and welfare www.greyhoundvets.co.uk |
Veterinary Public Health Association |
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Lewis Grant BVM&S MRCVS
Lewis qualified from Edinburgh Vet School in 1968. He is currently Veterinary and Technical Manager for the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) Veterinary & Technical Unit, managing a team of Veterinary and Technical Advisers, agreeing policies with SLA customers such as FSA and Defra and converting them into MOC instructions for Operational Staff and providing staff training. His work interests include food hygiene, animal diseases, animal by-products and animal welfare. In his spare time Lewis enjoys golf and plays to a high standard. |
Divisional Representatives may find the BVA AWF presentation useful when discussing the work of the Foundation with clients and colleagues. To download the presentation click here (Please note that this is a large file and may take 60 seconds to download).
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