Bridging Research Disciplines to Advance Animal Welfare Science: A Practical Guide

by Irene Camerlink (Editor), Faical Akaichi (Contribution by), Gareth Arnott (Contribution by), Marianne Benard (Contribution by), Grace A. Carroll (Contribution by)

Overview

In recent years there has been a huge rise in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in animal sciences which has accelerated improvements in animal welfare. Down to earth and practical, this book gives guidance on how cross-disciplinary research can advance animal welfare. With numerous examples and case studies, the text explains: · the different concepts regarding cross-disciplinary research · how to set up cross-disciplinary research projects · how to work in cross functional teams and models for effective team working · how different fields can impact animal welfare, including social sciences, neurosciences, genetics, behavioural ecology and technology. The aim of the book is to help researchers and graduate animal science students to understand how to advance animal welfare through the integration of disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789247916
Publisher:	CAB International North America
Publication date:	11/05/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Irene Camerlink (Edited By) Dr Irene Camerlink is an ethologist researching animal behaviour and welfare, with a focus on the social behaviour of pigs. She conducted her PhD at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and thereafter worked as postdoctoral researcher at SRUC (Edinburgh, UK) and the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Austria) before taking a position as Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Throughout her career she has studied pig welfare by combining multiple disciplines such as genetics, ethology, behavioural ecology and social sciences. She has over 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications, which have been cited >558 times (Google Scholar), resulting in an h-index of 14. She is Senior Editor for the International Society of Animal Ethology (ISAE) and Editorial Board Member for the Nature journal Scientific Reports. She was editor for the book 'Animal welfare in Practice: Pigs'. In 2017 she won the New Investigator Award of the International Society of Applied Ethology (ISAE). Her research interests are, amongst others, animal behaviour and welfare, social interactions, pig husbandry, early life development, cognition, and the translation of research into practice.
Dr Irene Camerlink is an ethologist researching animal behaviour and welfare, with a focus on the social behaviour of pigs. She conducted her PhD at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and thereafter worked as postdoctoral researcher at SRUC (Edinburgh, UK) and the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Austria) before taking a position as Associate Professor at the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She is Editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, was from 2017-2021 Senior Editor for the International Society of Animal Ethology (ISAE) and is editor of the book 'Animal Welfare in Practice: Pigs'. She was awarded the ISAE New Investigator Award in 2017 and the UFAW Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year Award in 2020. Throughout her career she has studied pig behaviour and welfare by combining multiple disciplines such as genetics, ethology, behavioural ecology and social sciences.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Crossing disciplines
1: Interdisciplinary research to advance animal welfare science: an introduction. Irene Camerlink.
2: Pragmatics for crossdisciplinary collaboration. Julie Thompson Klein.
3: Doing animal welfare transdisciplinary research with stakeholders; advantages, pitfalls and hands-on solutions. Tjard de Cock Buning and Marianne Benard.
4: Interdisciplinarity and the dilemmas of knowledge. Robert Frodeman.
Section 2: Applying other disciplines in animal welfare research
5: Human-centred research approaches to improve animal welfare: survey design and stakeholder involvement. Grace Carroll, Jenny Groarke and Lisa Graham-Wisener.
6: Human behaviour change models for improving animal welfare. Grace Carroll, Jenny Groarke and Lisa Graham-Wisener.
7: Applying economic models to assess the viability of animal welfare interventions. Rachel S.E. Peden and Faical Akaichi.
8: Application of psychometrics to assess quality of life in animals. Jacky Reid, Andrea Nolan, and Marian Scott.
9: Behavioural tests for learning and cognition in humans and animals. Rebecca E. Nordquist.
10: Using neuroscience for better understanding animals and their welfare. Irene Camerlink.
11: The microbiota-gut-brain axis in determining social behaviours of animals. Nienke van Staaveren, Paul Forsythe, Jerine A.J. van der Eijk, Dietmar Fuchs, Johanna M. Gostner, Claire Mindus, Bas T. Rodenburg, and Alexandra Harlander.
12: Improving animal welfare using genetic and genomic tools. Wendy M. Rauw, Jack C.M. Dekkers, Luis Gomez-Raya.
13: Epigenetic tools to identify stress and exposure to detrimental conditions in production animals. Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna.
14: Using principles from behavioural ecology to address animal welfare issues. Gareth Arnott, Victoria E. Lee and Simon P. Turner.
15: Practical considerations for the use of Precision Livestock Farming to improve animal welfare. Janice Siegford and Kaitlin Wurtz