Research Questions

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What are the welfare impacts of parasitism?

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How will climate change affect individuals’ welfare, directly (e.g. extreme weather) and indirectly (e.g. changes in habitat quality?

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What are the welfare impacts of vaccine, parasite, and other disease control programs on target and non-target animal?

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What is the potential impact of efforts that aim to improve the welfare of neglected farmed animals such as fish, or invertebrates, especially shrimp and prawns?

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How is the idea of a ‘food animal’ understood and performed within research across different academic disciplines?

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What are the behavioural, institutional, agronomic and economic challenges and opportunities associated with plant-based protein production ?

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How do different food system actors understand and perform current and future roles of animals within food systems, and how do these roles vary across different geographical contexts?

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What are the welfare impacts of different slaughter methods for farmed insects?

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How can animal welfare be made financially attractive ?

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What is the estimated use of antibiotics in insect farming facilities and its impact on AMR ?

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What are the alternatives to the artificial weaning/ separation of dairy ewe and lambs ?

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How is health monitoring conducted in different farmed insect species, and how to prevent health issues early on?

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What is the probability of insect farms to spread pathogens, diseases and zoonosis?

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What are the welfare impacts of different slaughter methods for farmed insects?

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What are the best practice at slaughter, including stunning methods and indicators of consiousness for decapods ?

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What are the welfare impacts for breeder ducks and how to mitigate the need for feed restriction, and the impacts of long-term housing on mental wellbeing?

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What factors modify the responses of lambs to milk weaning and strategies to reduce weaning stress ?

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What are the welfare impacts of being transported including posted for live sales for decapods?

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How enrichment/ husbandry practices can be used to mitigate feather pecking and promote positive mental state in breeder ducks?

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What are the (non-health) welfare impacts of feeding beef cattle high levels of concentrates ?

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