Lara Sirovica
Lara Sirovica PhD StudentDairy Cattle; Animals in Society lara.sirovica@ubc.ca About I chose this program because of the wonderful opportunities it presents to learn from an amazing group of researchers and to collaborate on complex animal welfare issues and potential paths forward to address these issues and improve animal welfare. I have always enjoyed being around […]
Kathryn McLellan’s Story
Kathryn McLellan Kathryn McLellan’s Story Kathryn was introduced to UBC AWP in her third year, through the course APBI 314 Animals and Society. After realizing the field of animal welfare was of interest to her, she took many of the courses offered by the program (e.g., APBI 315, 316, 413, 416, 414) and led her to pursue her research […]
Outreach
Periodicals Along with peer-reviewed publications, members of the program also write articles in various periodicals concerning animal welfare. View Videos Our YouTube channel features videos such as conference presentations and research clips across our five areas of research, all are organized into playlists. View
Research Areas
The program engages in research with the aim to improve the welfare of animals. We work towards this objective by conducting research across a number of different disciplines. While these are presented as discreet categories here, our students and associates do research across these various disciplines through their many activities. Dairy Cattle Our research aims […]
Maria Chen
Maria Chen mchen242@mail.ubc.ca LinkedIn About Growing up in China, Canada, and Norway, I became fascinated by the way animals are treated in different cultures. Throughout my undergraduate years, I realized that understanding the people who work with animals is critical to improving animal welfare. My previous research projects focused on dairy farmers and calves, lab […]
Katherine (Katie) Koralesky
Katherine (Katie) Koralesky Post-Doctoral Researcher katie.koralesky@ubc.ca LinkedIn About I am grateful to have completed my MSc, PhD and now begin post-doctoral work in the AWP because of its research focus on the human dimensions of animal welfare. For my MSc, I studied the use and perceptions of on-farm emergency slaughter for dairy cows. For my […]
World Wildlife Day 2021!
The United Nations General Assembly declares today, March 3rd, as World Wildlife Day! This year the theme is Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet. Today celebrates the central role of forests, as well as species and ecosystems in general in sustaining the lives of millions around the world. Here in the AWP, and LFS […]
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The United Nations General Assembly declares February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Women and girls continue to lead innovation and produce ground-breaking research around the world, despite being underrepresented in science and research. We are very fortunate to have so many #womeninscience as part of the Applied Animal Biology program […]
Undergraduate Eugenia Kwok: Working with Community Dogs in Brazil
MITACS undergraduate scholar, Eugenia Kwok, will spend the summer in Brazil researching the welfare of stray dogs.
Slow Food Vancouver’s 2012 Agassiz Cycle Tour!
Do not forget to visit the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre while cycling the Slow Food Vancouver’s Agassiz Cycle Tour to be held 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Saturday July 28, 2012. Cyclists are invited to visit the centre and learn about it’s research and education programs in animal welfare, animal reproduction and recovery of nutrients from […]