The Openness Awards On Tuesday 3 December 2019 UAR hosted the sixth annual Openness Awards and 83rd Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Professor Roger Lemon presented the Internal and Sector Engagement Award to Newcastle University for its ‘tribute to animals’ event. The …
Openness around animals in research statistics On 20 November 2018, the ten universities which conducted the most animal procedures in the UK during 2017 publicised their figures. They collectively conducted a third of all UK animal research that year, completing a combined total of 1.32 million procedures. Over …
New signatories This year we have welcomed the MHRA, Swansea University, University of Brighton, PTEN Research, and University of Hertfordshire as Concordat signatories, bringing the total number to 121. Manchester’s virtual lab tour This year the University of Manchester created a virtual tour of its animal unit. With eleven rooms and sixteen videos, …
The second instalment of the Concordat on Openness newsletter is now available to download. Signatories have been busy launching annual reports, taking part in social media campaigns, updating their websites, and press releasing their animal statistics. Last month UAR hosted the 81st Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture …
