Oceania Kreutzer is an Indigenous student who previously completed a BSc. in the Honour’s Applied Animal Biology program at UBC. She is now a part of the companion animal lab in the Animal Welfare Program and her research will be focused on the behaviour of feral rabbits living in urban environments and in colonial housing. She wants to incorporate traditional Indigenous knowledge and lens throughout her research.
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Ryann McCready is currently looking at fence-line weaning in cow-calf contact systems as a method to reduce distress demonstrated when separating calves from their mothers. This could help make cow-calf systems more applicable (in comparison to the standard calf separation practices) and improve dairy cattle welfare.
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Meghan Lok is a new MSc student, with her thesis centred around compassion fatigue in animal shelter workers. She completed her BSc in Applied Animal Biology in 2023 and also worked as a Work Learn AWP Communications and Media Assistant and as the interim AWP Research Coordinator.
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