Search for an Assistant Professor in Animal Welfare
The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Faculty of Land and Food Systems (www.landfood.ubc.ca) invites applications for a full-time tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Animal Welfare, within the Applied Biology Program. The successful candidate will contribute to the advancement of animal welfare through research, teaching, and public outreach. We welcome applications […]
The AWP Hosts Undergraduate Students from The Evergreen State College
The Animal Welfare Program has held a fall tradition with The Evergreen State College, a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington, where undergraduate students taking their Anthrozoology course head up north for a hands-on field trip to learn about animal welfare. With their first in-person visit since the pandemic, we welcomed more than 30 […]
Congratulations to two AWP graduates and to Dr. Marina (Nina) von Keyserlingk for receiving Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring at graduation!
Last Friday at the UBC Land and Food Systems Winter 2023 convocation ceremony, we celebrated Dr. Nina von Keyserlingk, as well as PhD graduate Wali (Mohammad) Sahar and MSc graduate Kai von Rentzell. Congrats to all!
AANB 500 seminar series – Tse Yip Fai on animals and AI ethics
As part of our seminar series for the AANB 500 course, the Animal Welfare Program hosts speakers from animal welfare and adjacent fields. Last week, we hosted speaker Tse Yip Fai who is a research assistant at Princeton University focusing on AI ethics and animal welfare. Fai provided an overview of AI and its connection […]
(Closed) Job Position – AWP Research Coordinator
The UBC Animal Welfare Program is hiring! Apply to our AWP Research Coordinator Position to manage administrative, finance, and communications aspects of the Program. The AWP Research Coordinator works closely with the AWP faculty to facilitate grant applications, produce reports to granting agencies, manage grant accounts, communicate information regarding the program, coordinate outreach events, and manage AWP space […]