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ºÚÁÏÉç achieves top spot in global rankings



        We have maintained our position at the top of the QS World

        University Subject Rankings. This is the third consecutive year
        the ºÚÁÏÉç has celebrated this accomplishment and the fourth time

        in the last five years.


        To produce the rankings for this year, QS   The ºÚÁÏÉç maintained its perfect score
        analysed more than 16.4 million unique   of 100 for Academic Reputation for the
        papers published between 2016-2020,   seventh year running. It also achieved
        producing close to 117.8 million citations   an improved H-index (or Hirsch index)
        in 2016-2021. 1,597 institutions were   of 97.2, speaking to the productivity and
        ranked across 54 subjects in five broad   impact of the ºÚÁÏÉç’s published work.
        subject areas, creating more than 18,300   The institution’s scores for citations
        ranked entries.                     and employer reputation are also
                                            highly commendable, at 99.4 and 76.1
        The rankings are then determined by a   respectively, recognising not only the
        range of criteria, including Academic   significance of the ºÚÁÏÉç’s research but
        Reputation, Research Impact, number   also its standing among employers.
        of Citations, Employer Reputation and
        the H-index – which ranks the impact   The full set of rankings can be found at:
        and quality of the work published by the   www.topuniversities.com
        institution’s scientists and academics.




        New Head for the Department of


        Pathobiology and Population Sciences




                                            with the ultimate purpose of enhancing   The Department of PPS is home to staff
                                            human lives and livelihoods through   with a broad spectrum of professional
                                            improved animal health and welfare.  interests and networks. It is renowned for
                                                                                its expertise in the production of animal
                                            Professor Priestnall brings vast    medicine, animal welfare, epidemiology,
                                            experience and expertise in the field,   economics and veterinary public health,
                                            holding Fellowships of the Royal    clinical and anatomic pathology, virology,
                                            College of Pathologists, the ºÚÁÏÉçS,   bacteriology, immunology and parasitology.
                                            the Royal Society of Biology and the   This broad spectrum of expertise enables
                                            Higher Education Academy. Professor   departmental researchers to consider
                                            Priestnall is a recognised RCVS     disease processes from the molecular
                                            Specialist in Veterinary Pathology –   and cellular level through to the whole
                                            with diagnostic and research expertise   animal and animal populations. The effects
                                            in respiratory, gastrointestinal and   of disease on welfare and the impact of
                                            experimental histopathology.
                                                                                disease on human-animal interactions
        Simon Priestnall, Professor of Veterinary   He is also a Senior Examiner for   and human health are fostered by this
        Anatomic Pathology, was appointed   the Royal College of Pathologists   multidisciplinary approach.
        Head of the Department of Pathobiology  and Chair of the Anatomic       Professor Priestnall will succeed
        and Population Sciences (PPS). In the   Pathology Examination Assembly   Professor Ken Smith, who took on a new
        role, Professor Priestnall will continue   and Administration Committee of   role as Head of the ºÚÁÏÉç’s Graduate
        driving forward PPS’s mission in    the American College of Veterinary   School, in July.
        excelling in understanding, diagnosing   Pathologists. He has served as
        and educating about animal disease   President of the British Society of
        and embracing One Health principles,   Veterinary Pathology.


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