Research Areas:
Equine Gut Health – parasitology, nutrition, gut modelling and microbiome profiling
– in vivo digestibility of fibre feeds in ponies
– in vitro digestibility of horse feeds – developing an in vitro system
– the equid gut brain axis
Conference organisation:
European Society for Veterinary Comparative Nutrition 2017 (RAU)
UK Equine Student Conference – 2020 – Online
European Workshop on Equine Nutrition 2022 (RAU)
European Workshop on Equine Nutrition 2024 (NBU Norway)
BISAS Equine Conference 2025 (Birmingham)
European Workshop on Equine Nutrition 2026 (Lisbon, Portugal)
External Examining
2023-2027 MSc Animal Nutrition – University of Glasgow
2021-2026 BVSc Veterinary Medicine and Science – University of Nottingham
2017-2021 Equine Science programmes University of Portsmouth (Sparsholt)
Dr Simon Daniels - Animal Scientist 