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Details for Dr Becky Hothersall
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Becky Hothersall |
| Job title | Animal Welfare Course Developer |
| Department | Farm Animal Science University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | MSci(Glas), PhD(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | cognition welfare human-animal interactions animal welfare sustainable development cognitive abilities adverse subjective experiences |
| Areas of expertise | Research Interests: • Links between cognition, welfare and human-animal interactions • Links between animal welfare and sustainable development • Development of species-appropriate methodologies to test cognitive abilities • Use of cognitive and attentional measures to assess adverse subjective experiences (such as pain and hunger) • How motivation and attention influence individual variability in learning performance |