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

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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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What are the welfare impacts of the various mutilations that are commonly performed on decapods ?

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What are the impacts of different farming systems on the health and welfare of farmed horses?

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What are the welfare implications of the genetic manipulation of insects carried out by industry?

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How to optimise goat kid health and welfare (i.e. allow for social housing) ?

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How does poor animal welfare affect human psychological well-being and societal health?

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What are the risks to biodiversity of the (accidental) release of insects from farming facilities?

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What enrichment improves both behavioural welfare indices and physiological responses?

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Can AI help in designing experiments that reduce or eliminate the need for animal testing in medical and cosmetic industries?

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