School of Veterinary Science

Event Description:

The University of Liverpool is delighted to host this year's European College of Veterinary Public Health's AGM and annual conference. The conference has been designed around the theme, 'Getting ahead of the risks: strategies to avoid known and unknown risks'. We have a wide range of speakers from across academia and the public sector. They will present on a range of topics from disaster planning, public health risks of raw meat diets for dogs, and food consumer's risk perception and risk taking. There will be the ever popular resident talks and poster presentations, and workshop sessions. With the social programme will be aiming to give everyone a proper Liverpudlian welcome! 

ECVPH Pre-Conference Workshop - Introduction to veterinary qualitative research workshop (Tuesday 10^th Sept - Wednesday Sept 11th)

 This two day in-person only event will be lead by Dr Tamzin Furtado and Dr Becky Smith.

Qualitative research has the potential to provide insight into the human factors which contribute to public health issues, yet this approach is used far less frequently than quantitative methods. Qualitative data explores human experience in order to understand why people behave the ways they do, the values they hold, and what influences their behaviour. However, the principles and practices of qualitative research are often misunderstood by those more familiar with quantitative methods; for example, concerns may relate to the small sample sizes, generalisability of results, and quality assurance.

NB Lunch and refreshment breaks will be included. An evening meal on the 11^th will be organised, for those who would like to attend, but it is not included in the price.