Geoff Urton, Animal Welfare Program alumnus, wins Top 20 Under 40 Business and Community Achievement Award
Congratulations to Animal Welfare Program alumnus Geoff Urton; BSc Animal Science 2000, MSc Animal Science 2005, on receiving an award for the 2018 Top 20 Under 40 Business and Community Achievement Awards on Vancouver Island. Over the past decade, Urton has had a great impact on improving the lives of animals on Vancouver Island and across Canada […]
20th anniversary of the UBC Animal Welfare Program
The Animal Welfare Program celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a series of talks On April 20th, 2018. The talks were by given by program founder Dr David Fraser; program alumni Dr Cathy Schuppli, Dr Sara Dubois and Dr Lee Neil; and current program PhD candidates Christine Sumner and Ruan Daros.
Animal Welfare Program alumni meet at World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) conference Guadalajara, MEXICO, December 2016
Left to right: Angela Greter, General Manager, Alberta Farm Animal Care, Calgary; Christy Goldhawk, Adviser – Animal Welfare, Elanco Animal Health, Calgary; Andreia De Paula Vieira, Scientist, Universidade Positivo, Curitiba, Brazil; David Fraser, Professor, UBC Animal Welfare Program; Gosia Zobel, Scientist, Animal Welfare Team, AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand .
LFS Animal Welfare Alumni Come Together to Create Wildlife Accreditation Program
Three UBC Animal Welfare Program alumni have joined forces to create an accreditation program that will encourage wildlife and rodent control companies to make ethical decisions when controlling wildlife populations. Sara Dubois (PhD & MSc, Animal Science, 2014 & 2003), Nicole Fenwick (MSc, Animal Science, 2005) and Erin A’tman Ryan (BSc Applied Biology, Major in […]
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 […]
Research Into Action – CCAC Transparency in Animal-Based Science
AWP alumni Dr. Michael W Brunt conducted his PhD research on understanding the social license to use animals for scientific experimentation and the influence of institutional transparency. Knowledge translation and transfer (KTT) is particularly crucial in applied disciplines, like animal welfare, that aim to improve the lives of animals through research. Translation of academic research […]
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 […]
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) Post-Doctoral Position in Dairy Cattle Welfare
Please note – we are no longer accepting applications for these roles. Please watch our website for future opportunities! UBC’s Animal Welfare Program is inviting applications for post-doctoral scholars, starting in the summer/fall of 2023. The duration of the position will be one year, with the potential of renewal for another year. Scholars will be expected […]
Undergraduate Researchers are Making an Impact in Animal Welfare!
The Animal Welfare Program (AWP) is thrilled to support undergraduate students in developing their research expertise through a number of programs. We would like to introduce you to a few of the students who have conducted research over the past year. These student researchers have covered a range of disciplines within the program. While most […]