Dr Alex Corbishley

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After graduating from vet school, Alex returned to his home county of Northamptonshire to work as a farm vet in a rural mixed practice. Sitting at the crossroads between cattle country and East Anglia, he worked with a variety of mixed farming systems including large lowland flocks and beef units running along-side substantial arable enterprises.

After three years, he moved to the Shropshire/Cheshire border to work in a specialist farm practice with a major focus on dairy, covering a vast area from Telford in the south, to Lancaster in the north. During this time he also developed a number of herd health reporting tools to monitor milk quality and composition. With plenty of competition between vets in the North West of England, he learnt the importance of ensuring that the farm vet is always adding value for the client and that advice is focused on making life simpler, rather than adding ever more layers of complexity.

Alex currently lives in Peebles with his wife, three daughters and two spaniels where he has spent the past three years studying for a PhD in livestock vaccines at the Roslin and Moredun Re-search Institutes.

His future research interests will focus on understanding vaccine performance in the field and developing new vaccine technologies to prevent losses on the farm, protect public health and reduce antibiotic use.