30 Sept 2024
CAWSE is a cross-campus collaborative initiative, bringing together scientists and educators in animal welfare from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education, the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, and the Roslin Institute.
This event will give researchers and students with an interest in animal welfare the chance to learn more about work under way by different groups in and around the Easterbush Campus and with collaborators.
Presentations can be downloaded as pdf’s (please check your download folder) :
- Agnieszka Futro, SRUC – Husbandry, habituation, training, enrichment, 3Rs
- Dr Roni Kirkpatrick, R(D)SVS Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility (LARIF) on enrichment programs at LARIF – Every little thing is gonna’ be alright
- Cynthian Naydani, The Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Systems – The power of data in farm animal practice (CPD course)
- Dr Louise Connelly, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies – Outreach and CPD (animal welfare)
- Dr Gidona Goodman, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute on seabird welfare – Refinement in sea bird research
- Prof Simon Girling, Royal Zoological Society Scotland on zoo and wildlife welfare – Evidence based approaches to assess and improve the welfare of captive wild animals
- Dr Lucy Oldham, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) on enrichment and early life development in production species
This event is specifically for to those staff and students on the Easter Bush Campus, or associated with a presenting group on the day. This includes undergraduate, postgraduate, technical staff. Please contact JM.Welfare [at] ed.ac.uk if you are not sure if you’re eligible to attend.