Following on from the success of the pig workshop that was featured in the last blog, 琳琅视频 is delighted to be hosting another workshop on Participatory Engagement on 31 March 2025. This workshop has been funded by the and is being hosted by Dr Holly Vickery, Dr Ellen Williams and Professor David Rose.
Particiatory engagement is the process of engaging people in the decision making process and it is crucial in promoting positive animal welfare. Combining classical biological science-based approaches with social science expertise enables research to be tailored to provide solutions that align to the needs of end users and wider industry. This interdisciplinary approach is key to enabling meaningful change, which has benefits for humans and animals alike.
This workshop will bring together social scientists, industry practitioners and animal welfare scientists to increase knowledge of how social and animal science techniques can be aligned to foster increased collaborations and produce research with greater potential for real-world impact. It will provide members with a practical social science informed perspective on animal welfare research, including why we should include stakeholders, and clear directions on who we should consider, and how to engage stakeholders in project development, which will have ramifications for future development of industry. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to these conversations will enable identification of tangible directions for future approaches to animal welfare research and development of practice.
The workshop will run from 10:00 – 16:00 (registration from 09:30) and will consist of keynote talks, breakout groups, and networking activities.!
We are delighted to be joined by Professor Emma Roe, Professor David Rose, Dr Tamzin Furtado and Dr Heather Browning.
Talks will include:
Professor David Rose – ‘Co-designing animal welfare research with stakeholders’
Professor Emma Roe - ‘Making the case for interdisciplinary animal welfare science: how it would work and what it could offer’
Dr Tamzin Furtado – ‘Walking the talk and squawking the squawk: Moving from engagement to behaviour change in animal welfare research’
Dr Heather Browning – ‘From Subjects to Stakeholders: Centring Animals in Welfare Research’
Standard tickets cost just £30 (including lunch!) and we have a small number of subsidised tickets available for £15 for students.
Bookings can be made . A full agenda and further information about our fabulous speakers is available .
Additional evening lecture
In addition to the above workshop, we are delighted to announce that Professor Donald Broom will be joining us for an evening lecture after the participatory engagement workshop from 4.30 - 5.30pm. This talk will be followed by networking drinks and nibbles.
Professor Donald Broom is an emeritus professor of animal welfare at the University of Cambridge, having been appointed the world's first Professor of Animal Welfare in 1986. In his Centre for Animal Welfare and Anthrozoology, he developed concepts and methods of scientific assessment of animal welfare and studied: cognitive abilities of animals, the welfare of farmed and other animals in relation to housing and transport, behaviour problems of pets, sustainable livestock production, attitudes to animals and ethics of animal usage. He has published 9 books and over 350 refereed papers, lectured on animal welfare in 45 countries and served on UK (FAWC, APC, Seals, BBC Rural Affairs) and Council of Europe committees.
We are delighted that Professor Broom will be joining us to talk about "Progress since Coping with Challenge: Welfare in Animals including Humans ". In 2001 the forward-looking coordinators of the Dahlem Conferences in the Freie Universitet of Berlin asked Professor Broom to organise a conference that brought together animal welfare scientists and researchers on human psychiatry, stress and welfare. The resulting book put forward a key idea that researchers on humans could learn from researchers on non-humans. Since that time some significant advances have benefitted from that view and Professor Broom's talk will focus on 'where have we got to now'?
The event is free for those attending the workshop and £5 for other attendees. If you wish to register for the workshop you can do so . Registration for Professor Broom's evening lecture only can be done .
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