Nominations for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Honours & Awards, 2022, are now open.

The RCVS Honours & Awards acknowledge and celebrate members of the veterinary profession and wider community. Everyone from the veterinary community is encouraged to nominate individuals who they think have gone above and beyond the call of duty in the fields of veterinary medicine or science.

The award categories open for nominations are below:

The closing date for these nominations is Friday, January 2, 2022.

The closing date for nominating teams or individuals for the RCVS Knowledge Awards 2022: Quality Improvement Champions is October 18, 2021, and the deadline for teams applying themselves is December 4, 2021.

The RCVS Honours & Awards 2021

The RCVS Honours & Awards 2021 were held on September 23. The evening was hosted by Dr. Mandisa Greene, RCVS senior vice president; Lisa Lockett, RCVS chief executive; Amanda Boag, RCVS Knowledge’s chair of trustees; and Matthew Rendle, chair of VN council.

The ceremony’s keynote speech was given by Dr. Emily Collins-Wingate, a recently qualified vet who graduated during the height of the pandemic. As part of her talk, Emily openly spoke about what it was really like to train and qualify as a vet during a global pandemic and what the wider veterinary community can learn about resilience and determination from the class of 2020.