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| Dr Gina Caplen | |
| Post(s): | Research Assistant, School of Veterinary Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Research interests: • The integration of motivational priorities with established welfare indicators to improve the accuracy... |
| Keywords: | motivational priorities | welfare indicators | animal welfare | poultry | pain experience | complex decision making | cognition | chickens |
| Dr Becky Hothersall | |
| Post(s): | Animal Welfare Course Developer, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests: • Links between cognition, welfare and human-animal interactions • Links between animal welfare... |
| Keywords: | cognition | welfare | human-animal interactions | animal welfare | sustainable development | cognitive abilities | adverse subjective experiences |
| Professor Toby Knowles | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Farming and Food Science, School of Veterinary Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My background is in agriculture and my main research interests are in animal welfare. I specialise in farm animal welfare,... |
| Keywords: | | animal welfare | animals | farm animals | fish | horse | pony |
| Professor David Main | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Animal Welfare, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include applied welfare assessment for a variety in species including livestock, working horses, laboratory... |
| Keywords: | animal welfare | livestock | dairy cattle lameness | tail biting in pigs | pig welfare |
| Professor Michael Mendl | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests are in the study of cognition, emotion, and social behaviour in domestic animals, with a view... |
| Keywords: | cognition | emotion | social behaviour | domestic animals | animals | animal welfare | pig cognition | tail-biting in pigs |
| Professor Christine Nicol | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Animal Welfare, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests relate to methods of assessing animal welfare, particularly investigating whether 'indicators'... |
| Keywords: | animal welfare | animals | animal housing environments | equine cognition | horses | feather pecking in chickens | non-human animals | chickens |
| Dr Nicola Rooney | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in applied aspects of the interactions between humans and animals including the follow areas: • Development... |
| Keywords: | animals | interactions between humans and animals | animal welfare | dogs | domestic animals | play behaviour | working dogs | breeds of domestic dog |
| Dr Christopher Sherwin | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests relate to improving the on-farm welfare of layer hens by increasing range use and reducing... |
| Keywords: | animal welfare | layer hens | feather pecking | animal behaviour | animals | ethics of animal use |
| Dr John Tarlton | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, Veterinary Pathology and Infection and Immunity |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests: Tissue repair and regeneration, inflammatory bowel disease, stem cell biology, tissue engineering,... |
| Keywords: | tissue repair | tissue regeneration | inflammatory bowel disease | stem cell biology | tissue | joint disorders | cattle lameness | animal welfare |
| Dr Claire Weeks | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Animal Welfare, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I have over 30 years experience of poultry welfare, which I evaluate by measuring their environment in house and during transport... |
| Keywords: | poultry | animal welfare | animal behaviour | improving animal transport | husbandry systems | literature reviews |
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