Sarah Bolton
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Dairy Cattle
About
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 and 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 Veterinary Science (Animal Welfare) from the University of Melbourne and is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the University of British Columbia’s Animal Welfare Program. Sarah’s work centres on the welfare of food production animals and approaches to complex ethical challenges in agriculture, with a particular focus on vulnerable animals, including surplus dairy calves. Her research to date has included the use of participatory methods to identify and integrate the needs of a wide range of stakeholders, including industry, the public, and the animals themselves. Ultimately, she aims to support the implementation of food production systems that are simultaneously environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable into the future.