David Fraser and Ian Duncan celebrate the 50th anniversary of writing the first text-book chapter on farm animal welfare
A 50-year milestone in animal welfare This summer David Fraser and Ian Duncan celebrated the remarkable milestone of the 50th anniversary of writing the first text-book chapter on farm animal welfare. The chapter was published in the 1975 edition of The Behaviour of Domestic Animals. David and Ian worked alongside David Wood-Gush (1922–1992), a pioneering figure in […]
Dr Marina von Keyserlingk has been recognized with the 2024 ISAE Creativity Award
Earlier this summer the 57th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) took place in Curitiba, Brazil from July 22nd to July 26th 2024. Many members of the UBC Animal Welfare Program (AWP) attended the event. Dr Marina (Nina) von Keyserlingk, AWP Professor, was recognized with the 2024 ISAE Creativity Award. This award […]
Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Protopopova promoted to Associate Professor at the AWP
Congratulations to Dr. Sasha Protopopova, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor at the Animal Welfare Program. Since joining the AWP in 2019, she has developed a novel line of research that aims to learn more about dogs and improve companion animal welfare. In 2022, Dr. Protopopova opened the new Human-Animal Interaction Lab, the first […]