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Mental health of veterinary nurses and student veterinary nurses: A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Cardwell, J., King, N., Lewis, E. G., Kinnison, T., Langridge, A., Civai, C., …Cardwell, J. M. (2024). Mental health of veterinary nurses and student veterinary nurses: A scoping review. Veterinary Record, https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.4091

Abstract Background Research has shown that veterinarians around the world are at high risk of mental health problems, but far less research has examined the mental health of veterinary nurses (VNs) and student veterinary nurses (SVNs). This scopin... Read More about Mental health of veterinary nurses and student veterinary nurses: A scoping review.

Investigation Of Factors Affecting Recruitment And Retention In The UK Veterinary Nursing Profession (2022)
Journal Article
Hagen, J., Weller, R., Mair, T., Batt-Williams, S., & Kinnison, T. (2022). Investigation Of Factors Affecting Recruitment And Retention In The UK Veterinary Nursing Profession. Vet Record Case Reports, https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.106044

Background Recruitment and retention have been identified as contributing factors to workforce shortages in the veterinary team. Methods In this second part of a project exploring recruitment and retention in veterinary professions, results from v... Read More about Investigation Of Factors Affecting Recruitment And Retention In The UK Veterinary Nursing Profession.

Preliminary testing of psychometric properties of the ‘student perceptions of veterinary interprofessional education and work scale’ (SP-VIEWS) (2021)
Journal Article
Kinnison, T., Lumbis, R., de Mestre, A., & Cardwell, J. M. (in press). Preliminary testing of psychometric properties of the ‘student perceptions of veterinary interprofessional education and work scale’ (SP-VIEWS). Journal of Interprofessional Care,

Responsibility for the provision of veterinary care and services is increasingly shared between veterinary surgeons/veterinarians and registered veterinary nurses/veterinary technicians. Interprofessional education of these clinical professionals is... Read More about Preliminary testing of psychometric properties of the ‘student perceptions of veterinary interprofessional education and work scale’ (SP-VIEWS).

Investigation of factors affecting recruitment and retention in the UK veterinary profession (2020)
Journal Article
Hagen, J., Weller, R., Mair, T., & Kinnison, T. (2020). Investigation of factors affecting recruitment and retention in the UK veterinary profession. Veterinary Record,

Background Recruitment and retention is currently of major concern and resulted in the veterinary profession being returned to the UK’s Shortage Occupation List in 2019. Methods An online questionnaire of veterinary employees and employers investi... Read More about Investigation of factors affecting recruitment and retention in the UK veterinary profession.

Multi-Level Impact of Continuing Professional Development on Sri Lanka’s Veterinary Sector (2020)
Journal Article
Kinnison, T., Thuranira-McKeever, C., Kalupahana, R., & Silva-Fletcher, A. T. (2020). Multi-Level Impact of Continuing Professional Development on Sri Lanka’s Veterinary Sector. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2020.1758650

A capacity-building programme between a veterinary school in the UK and the veterinary school in Sri Lanka was developed. Scholarships for two distance learning MSc programmes were offered to Sri Lankan veterinarians: ‘Veterinary Epidemiology and Pub... Read More about Multi-Level Impact of Continuing Professional Development on Sri Lanka’s Veterinary Sector.

Mindset and its relationship to anxiety in clinical veterinary students (2018)
Journal Article
Bostock, R., Kinnison, T., & May, S. A. (2018). Mindset and its relationship to anxiety in clinical veterinary students. Veterinary Record, 183(20), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104621

This study investigated anxiety, one aspect of mental wellbeing, in fourth year veterinary students before the final clinical section of their course (intramural rotations (IMR)). It explored the relationship between reported anxiety and ‘mindset’: a... Read More about Mindset and its relationship to anxiety in clinical veterinary students.

Student experiences and perceptions of compulsory research projects: a veterinary perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Cardwell, J. M., Magnier, K., Kinnison, T., & Silva-Fletcher, A. T. (2017). Student experiences and perceptions of compulsory research projects: a veterinary perspective. Veterinary Record Open, 4, e000243. https://doi.org/10.1136/vetreco-2017-000243

Background Although research underpins clinical work, many students training to be clinicians are not inherently interested in developing research skills. Aim To characterise and understand veterinary student experiences and perceptions of compuls... Read More about Student experiences and perceptions of compulsory research projects: a veterinary perspective.

Working in Professional Teams (2017)
Book Chapter
Kinnison, T., Guile, D., & May, S. (2017). Working in Professional Teams. In Veterinary Medical Education: A Practical Guide. Wiley-Blackwell

Teaching Tip: developing an intercollegiate Twitter forum to aid student exam study and the development of digital professionalism (2016)
Journal Article
Whiting, M., Kinnison, T., & Mossop, L. (2016). Teaching Tip: developing an intercollegiate Twitter forum to aid student exam study and the development of digital professionalism. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 43(3), 282-286. https://doi.org/10.3138/jvme.0715-114R

#VetFinals has been developed as a novel online Twitter teaching event designed to support intercollegiate veterinary teaching using social media. Previous studies in other fields have suggested that Twitter use within universities may have benefits... Read More about Teaching Tip: developing an intercollegiate Twitter forum to aid student exam study and the development of digital professionalism.

Errors in Veterinary Practice: Preliminary Lessons for Building Better Veterinary Teams (2015)
Journal Article
Kinnison, T., Guile, D., & May, S. A. (2015). Errors in Veterinary Practice: Preliminary Lessons for Building Better Veterinary Teams. Veterinary Record, 177(19), 492. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.103327

Case studies in two typical UK veterinary practices were undertaken to explore teamwork, including interprofessional working. Each study involved one week of whole team observation based on practice locations (reception, operating theatre), one week... Read More about Errors in Veterinary Practice: Preliminary Lessons for Building Better Veterinary Teams.

Continuing professional development: learning that leads to change in individual and collective clinical practice (2015)
Journal Article
May, S. A., & Kinnison, T. (2015). Continuing professional development: learning that leads to change in individual and collective clinical practice. Veterinary Record, 177(1), 13-13. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.103109

The lack of effectiveness of traditional models of continuing professional development is increasingly recognised. While they can lead to increased knowledge of participants, research suggests that there is a general failure to produce meaningful and... Read More about Continuing professional development: learning that leads to change in individual and collective clinical practice.

The winding path to a PhD in veterinary education (2015)
Journal Article
Kinnison, T., & Dernat, S. (2015). The winding path to a PhD in veterinary education. Veterinary Record, 176(1), 8-10. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.g7631

Masters and PhD degrees specific to veterinary education are relatively novel, but the number of students in this area is growing. As two current students, Tierney Kinnison and Sylvain Dernat, explain, those undertaking these degrees have vastly diff... Read More about The winding path to a PhD in veterinary education.