Dr. Roy Neville Kirkwood is an Associate Professor at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He completed his BSc in zoology with applied zoology from the University of Wales before undertaking a Ph.D. program at the University of Leeds researching the boar effects on gilt puberty. He then moved to Massey University in New Zealand for 2 years, where he was researching the impact of lactation length on sow fertility. He then moved to Canada and conducted research in various areas, including nutritional effects on sow fertility. He received his DVM from the University of Saskatchewan in 1995 and moved back to Alberta as the provincial swine research veterinarian. In 1999, he moved to the Royal Veterinary College (London) as a senior lecturer before moving to Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2001. He relocated to the University of Adelaide in 2011. His current research interests include sow reproductive management, control of reproduction, and improving neonatal piglet growth and survival.