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The UBC Animal Welfare Program is inviting applications for multiple PhD students!
UBC’s Animal Welfare Program is now recruiting students with a demonstrated aptitude for research and interest in improving the lives of dairy cattle and the people who care for them. Specifically, we are searching for candidates interested in pursuing a PhD in one or more of the following research areas: Please see the documents below…
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Dr. Amy Jackson, Agricultural Communications Specialist, Visited AWP!
Amy Jackson is an agricultural communications specialist who works with the UK and Irish farming industries on high profile challenges. Her interest in how we communicate contentious aspects of modern farming systems led Amy to a Nuffield scholarship in 2012 and then a PhD in 2022 from the University of Nottingham’s vet school, examining public…
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Featuring VIRS Student – Marion Baratange
Marion Baratange is an agricultural engineering student specializing in animal production at Institut Agro Dijon in France. She recently completed a five-month internship with the Animal Welfare Program, where she helped with research projects at the UBC Dairy. How did you first get interested in animal welfare? I first became interested in animal welfare through…
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UBC AWP Post-Doc is Moving on as a UBC Lecturer!
Camila Cavalli obtained her PhD in Psychology at the University of Cordoba, Argentina, studying the sociocognitive abilities of therapy dogs. She joined the UBC Animal Welfare Program in 2022 to continue her research with therapy dogs, focusing on their welfare during Animal Assisted Interventions. She is now moving into a new position at UBC as…
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Featuring VIRS Student – Francesca Costenaro
Francesca Costenaro is currently completing her Master’s degree in Animal Science and Technology at the University of Padua. Francesca grew up in a family that manages a dairy farm and remains closely connected to this sector. How did you first get interested in animal welfare? My family has a farm, and I’ve always worked there.…
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Welcoming Sarah Bolton, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, at AWP!
Sarah is a veterinarian and animal welfare scientist who has worked in private and government veterinary practice and has previous experience in dairy farm management, including calf rearing. More recently, she has held national animal welfare management roles within the Australian Dairy Industry and within commercial beef production and processing. She holds a PhD in…
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Congratulations to our PhD Graduate Dr. Lexis Ly!
We congratulate Dr. Lexis Ly on graduating in the spring of 2025 from the Animal Welfare Program! Lexis joined the UBC Animal Welfare Program in 2019 as a research assistant. She worked with various members of the program before starting her PhD with Dr. Protopopova. Her dissertation focused on the circumstances that lead to owner…
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AWP’s Lexis Ly receives the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Lexis Ly (PhD, ‘25) with Dean pro tem of the Faculty Land and Food Systems Congratulations to recent AWP PhD graduate Lexis Ly, who was one of 19 graduate students at UBC to receive the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 2024/25 for her outstanding contributions to teaching and learning! Lexis began as a teaching assistant…
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Theo Quemener and Jeanne Durieu visited the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre
Theo Quemener and Jeanne Durieu were Visiting International Research Students from L’Institut Agro Dijon who joined the UBC Animal Welfare Program for 5 months. During their stay at UBC, they lived and worked at the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre, helping AWP graduate students with their research projects. Both Theo and Jeanne are from…
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Dan Weary gave a plenary presentation to the 18th Congress of the Brazilian Society for Science in Laboratory Animals
On April 4th, 2025, Dan gave an invited, plenary presentation to the 18th Congress of the Brazilian Society for Science in Laboratory Animals (SBCAL) in Uberlandia Brazil; SBCAL is Latin America’s foremost meeting for bringing together researchers, veterinarians, technicians and the allied industries to improve the care and handling of laboratory animals. Dan spoke about the…