FELASA Severity Workshop
Delivered on the first day of the LASA 2025 Annual Conference

Details

When? Monday 17 November 2025, 09:30 to 12:00
Where? West Midlands

FELASA Severity Workshop


Since 2016, FELASA has offered workshops on severity classification in Europe to ensure that colleagues are well informed and trained to effectively classify severity both prospectively (e.g. for license applications) and for each animal at the end of procedures (actual severity) according to the Severity Assessment Framework and as set out in the Directive, both of which are embedded into UK legislation via A(SP)A. This is to ensure that prospective classification in project design and evaluation on the use of animals in procedures, and the information on the actual severity in the statistical reporting of the procedures is aligned across the UK and Europe. 
Thousands of delegates have already followed one or more ‘FELASA Severity Workshops'. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to promote the consistent use of the severity classification framework with optimal refinement of all procedures. 

These workshops will offer delegates information and hands on training to harmonise severity classification and additionally, will be an essential aid to comply with the Severity Assessment Framework as regulated in both A(SP)A and the EU Directive.

Speaker - Helen Murphy

Bio: Helen Murphy qualified as a veterinary surgeon from the University of Bristol before completing a PhD and working in small animal practice. For over 10 years, Helen has been focused on the care of research animals, working with a range of species at contract research facilities and large breeding centres, and completing an RCVS certificate in Laboratory Animal Science.
Currently, Helen is a Named Veterinary Surgeon at a pharmaceutical company, where she collaborates closely with research teams to ensure that their animal studies meet high welfare standards as well as delivering high quality data. Her work is driven by her interests in improving how we assess animal welfare, designing effective experiments, refining procedures, and sharing her knowledge to help advance the field in practical, meaningful ways.

Speaker - David Anderson BVMS MVM MRCVS 

Bio: David is a veterinary surgeon with over thirty years experience in practice, academia and government service. He worked initially in a University teaching environment where he developed an interest and expertise in veterinary reproduction, and was Named Veterinary Surgeon under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act. Until 2010, he worked in the UK Home Office in the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate. 
Since 2011, he has been working as a veterinary advisor, where his main role has been to provide technical support to the European Commission during the transposition of the new European Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes. He is a Vice-President of Institute of Animal Technologists and Past President of Laboratory Animal Science Association. 
For many years he was a Trustee for Guide Dogs, and in his spare time still enjoys golfing and curling.

Registration instructions

Please log into your mySociety member account (if you are not a member then you can create a free account), then select ‘Book this event' at the top of the screen. The exact location of the workshop will be sent to confirmed delegates.

If you need to make a booking for multiple delegates or pay by Purchase Order (PO), please contact us at events@rsb.org.uk to process your registration.

Please indicate on your booking if you are also attending the LASA 2025 Annual Conference.

Members: £25 including VAT
Non-members: £35 including VAT

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

This event is approved for purposes of CPD and can be counted as 3 CPD points. 

Special requirements

Before completing your booking, please indicate whether you have any dietary, accessibility, or other requirements on the right-hand side of the booking page when you submit your booking or let us know at events@rsb.org.uk and we will do what we can to accommodate your needs.

Cancellation Policy

Please be aware of our cancellation and refund policy:
  • If you cancel at least 30 days prior to the date of the event you will receive a full refund.
  • No refund will be made for non-attendance or cancellations within 30 days of the event.
To cancel a booked place on an event, notice must be given by email to events@rsb.org.uk

Contact

This event is being organised by the Royal Society of Biology for LASA. For any conference booking or website queries, please contact Lucy Eckersley at events@rsb.org.uk

Please direct general LASA queries to the team at info@lasa.co.uk