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.
Who We Are
Lead Faculty
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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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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…
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).