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Welcome to the BBSRC Animal Welfare Research Network (AWRN) website. The Network is currently funded by a grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Some of the funds for this are being provided by the Animal Welfare R&D budget held jointly across Defra, Scottish Government and Welsh Government. It aims to bring together the UK animal welfare research community, researchers in related areas, and stakeholders with interests in animal welfare, to identify important research topics, increase collaboration, and support and encourage research activities.

Current Research Findings

Understanding the behaviour of adopted northern Canadian community dogs through a mixed-methods approach

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Animal Interiority: Sentience and Spatial Perception

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Precision farming in aquaculture: non-invasive monitoring of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) behaviour in response to environmental conditions in commercial sea cages for health and welfare assessment

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Introduction to AW Research

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New AWRN LinkedIn Page

  AWRN have launched a new LinkedIn account for AWRN. We wanted to let our members know that this will be our main platform for sharing going forwards. To ensure that this is future proofed (and can be handed over in the future ...Read more >

The UFAW / AWRN Law Seminar Series

  Influencing for Impact - Translating animal welfare research into law and policy   UFAW / AWRN Seminar Series - Online   Animal welfare research allows us to understand animals’ needs and how to meet them to ensure that their welfare is as good as ...Read more >

Technologies in Animal Welfare Seed Funding

AWRN were awarded seed funding from BBSRC for projects on "Technologies in Animal Welfare". Below are the details of the awards. The deadline for these awards has now passed.    Aim of the Seeding AwardsThe seeding awards have the overall aim of ...Read more >

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