Held during BVNA Congress, VNJ Live will provide an opportunity for SVNs and RVNs to showcase their projects in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, with mentorship available.

This event will include a panel discussion on developing projects in practice such as clinical audits or research, selecting cases for publication or how to develop your dissertation into an abstract and poster. There will be opportunities to ask questions and put your ideas forward. This friendly and constructive platform for veterinary nurses and students with little experience of public speaking is a fantastic opportunity to develop presenting skills, whilst discussing and sharing best nursing practice, and increasing the evidence base available to the profession.

Submission Categories

We are now inviting submissions in the following different categories:

  • Student veterinary nurse case reflection
  • Registered veterinary nurse case reflection
  • Research projects (e.g. undergraduate or postgraduate dissertation)
  • Clinical audit
  • Planned project idea

Whether you are in the process of completing a dissertation/research project, or have worked with an interesting case in practice – we’d like to hear from you!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Nikki Ruedisueli (Editor-in-Chief of the VNJ) at nicola@bvna.co.uk.

Have you recently completed a clinical audit, data collection for a research project or provided nursing care for a challenging case?

Using the form here, please submit your idea, plan or abstract for consideration. Please note the abstract submission deadline is Thursday 31st July 2025.

Why present at VNJ Live?

Hear from previous “Research Bites” presentation winner, Hannah Durling, on her experience of presenting at BVNA Congress:

” I would highly encourage any veterinary nurses who are considering entering their poster, to do so. I have to admit the thought of presenting my own research in front of lots of unfamiliar faces was very daunting but it is probably one of the biggest highlights of my career! Following the poster presentation, a lot also changed for me in practice as I was able to use my research to help clients with their diabetic dogs and have made my own set of ‘client friendly’ resources to give to diabetic dog owners. It has been so rewarding to see first hand how I have managed to put those many hours of researching/collecting data and hard core studying into practice and be able to help clients feel more confident and less overwhelmed when managing their pet’s diabetes.”