A busy 10 days for animal welfare down under
David Fraser will end his time in New Zealand with a final lecture tour: – April 12 Palmerston North – April 15 Palmerston North – April 17 Auckland – April 19 Melbourne (Australia) – April 23 Wellington For the final event, he is the guest speaker at the Wellington City Council’s 2013 Natural Environment Forum
A heated topic: branding animals for identification
Branding has been used for centuries on horses and cattle; more recently wildlife researchers have begun using hot-iron branding to identify marine mammals. Kristen Walker’s Ph.D. research focused on the pain and distress caused by branding and other marking methods in Steller sea lions, and how this could be avoided. Kristen’s work and other recent […]
Elisabeth Ormandy’s recent paper featured by FRAME
Elisabeth Ormandy, post-doctoral researcher in UBC’s Animal Welfare Program, has had her research profiled in FRAME’s most recent newsletter (see page 5). Elisabeth’s research shows a high level of public concern for the use of zebrafish in painful research. Fish are now the most widely used research animal in Canada and many other countries.
Liv Baker’s research featured in interview
PhD student Liv Baker has been interested in the welfare concerns that arise from the management of threatened species and the use of animal welfare research methods to improve conservation concerns. She was recently interviewed by WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) about her research and the role of animal welfare and sentience […]
Undergraduate Students Present Animal Welfare Research
Students enrolled in APBI 398 presented their research at MURC 2013
AWP Students Split First Prize in Student Competition
For the first time ever students were able to give short, practical talks about their research at Western Canadian Dairy Seminar. These talks were judged by a panel of experts who decided to award the first place prize to both Gosia Zobel and Katy Proudfoot – two PhD students in the UBC Animal Welfare Program!
AWP Students Chosen to Present at Western Canadian Dairy Seminar
PhD students Katy Proudfoot and Gosia Zobel are two of only four students selected from across Canada to compete in the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar’s first ever graduate student oral competition. The aim of these talks is for students to present their research in a way producers will find applicable and meaningful to their daily […]
Professor Fraser presents ANZCCART lecture in Dunedin, NZ on 14 March
Cars, cats and climate change represent a few of the growing but neglected harms to animals caused by seven billion busy people. These and many other aspects of human life cause a spectrum of harms ranging from animal suffering to loss of biodiversity. Animal welfare and conservation thus involve many shared problems. Indeed, animal welfare […]
Public attitudes toward the use of fish and mice in biomedical research
Post-doctoral scholar Elisabeth Ormandy and colleagues in the Animal Welfare Program have recently published an article on public attitudes towards the use of animals in research. The study focused on the commonly used procedure of ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) mutagenesis. This procedure is used to introduce genetic point mutations and study various genetic diseases, including cancer. The […]
AWP review article identified as one 5 most highly downloaded papers in Dairy Science
One way to track how well our research is reaching a wide audience is the number of times papers are downloaded. The Journal of Dairy Science recently released figures for all downloads in 2012, and our paper entitled “The welfare of dairy cattle: Key concepts and the role of science” was listed as number 5 […]