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Personal details
Name Professor Toby Knowles
Job title Professor of Farming and Food Science
Department Bristol Veterinary School University of Bristol
Personal web page http://www.bris.ac.uk/vetscience/people/toby-g-knowles/overview.html
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Qualifications BSc(Agric), MSc, PhD(Cantab), CStat, CBiol, CSci, FRSB, FHEA
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Member of the Society of Biology
Keywords animal welfare
animals
farm animals
fish
horse
pony
Areas of expertise My background is in agriculture and my main research interests are in animal welfare. I specialise in farm animal welfare, including the welfare of farmed fish.

I am also a chartered statistician and an epidemiologist and as such, much of my work uses studies of populations. I am qualified to review and comment on scientific study methodology, design and analysis.
Media experience Experience with national and local, press, radio and television.