Our aim is to provide the dairy industry with knowledge-based solutions to welfare challenges by training young scientists with a passion for the industry and specific expertise on key issues of the day. Much of our current research is concentrated on the effects of management and housing on the health and welfare of calves and cows.
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What We Do
Research Reports
Research Reports are designed to report applied aspects of research from the UBC’s Dairy Education and Research Centre recently published in refereed international scientific journals. Many of these reports cover research conducted by graduate students and faculty in the Animal Welfare Program.
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We have videos featuring conference presentations, student work, and more for each of our research areas on our YouTube channel.
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Where We Work
UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre
Most of our experimental work on dairy cattle welfare takes place here.
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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 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…
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Theo Quemener and Jeanne Durieu visited the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre
Theo Quemener and Jeanne Durieu recently spent time at the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre as Visiting International Research Students from L’Institut Agro Dijon with the Animal Welfare Program. Both Theo and Jeanne are from Brittany, France and grew up on dairy farms but wanted to gain more experience in the animal behaviour and…
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Welcoming Visiting MSc Student Victoria Gaia
Victoria Gaia had recently joined the Animal Welfare Program from the end of the summer of 2024 until the beginning of 2025 as a visiting international research student. Visiting students contribute to the exchange of ideas throughout the program, conducting their own research work while also engaging in activities with students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty…
Thanks to our supporters! The University of British Columbia’s Animal Welfare Program is supported by Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Industrial Research Chair Program awarded to Nina von Keyserlingk and Dan Weary with contributions from Dairy Farmers of Canada (Ottawa, ON, Canada), Alberta Milk (Edmonton, AB, Canada), Saputo (Montreal, QC, Canada), British Columbia Dairy Association (Burnaby, BC, Canada), Merck (Kirkland, QC, Canada), British Columbia Cattle Industry Development Fund (Kamloops, BC, Canada), Boehringer Ingelheim (Burlington, ON, Canada), Semex Alliance (Guelph, ON, Canada), Lactanet (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada), Dairy Farmers of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB, Canada) and SaskMilk (Regina, SK, Canada).