Animal Welfare Postgrad Positions
Deadline 16th November 2026
University of Aberdeen (UK) – PhD in: EastBio: Applying AI to vaccine development in tackling a climate change-driven parasitic disease of salmonid fish.
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Beyond the Headshake: Quantifying the Daily Welfare Impact of Equine Trigeminal-Mediated Pain
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Listening to cows: Using intelligent bioacoustics to monitor dairy cattle welfare
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Enriching the lives of dairy heifers from rearing to first lactation
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: What makes pasture valuable to dairy cows?
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Growing into the herd: can delayed social integration improve resilience and welfare in first lactation dairy cows?
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Improving resilience to early life stressors in pigs using a synthetic analogue of the Swine Appeasing Substance
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Investigating the effects of veterinary physiotherapy on behaviour and musculoskeletal health in racehorses
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Are some calves born better prepared for life than others? Identifying biological origins of resilience in dairy heifer calves
Deadline 22nd November 2026
Harper Adams University (UK) – PhD in: Can resilience in dairy calves be shaped before birth?
Deadline 29th November 2026
University of Nottingham (UK) – PhD in: Supporting People and Pets: Food Banks, Food Insecurity, and Wellbeing in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Deadline 30th November 2026
SRUC (UK) – PhD in: EASTBIO SRUC WARM-LIVESTOCK: Welfare and Adipose Research for Managing Livestock Temperature
Deadline 30th November 2026
SRUC (UK) – PhD in: EASTBIO SRUC PAWS: Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance and Hospital-Acquired Infections with Innovative Diagnostics and Surveillance in Veterinary Practice
Deadline 30th November 2026
SRUC (UK) – PhD in: EASTBIO SRUC Developing welfare impact assessments for wild and functionally wild animals
Deadline 30th November 2026
SRUC (UK) – PhD in: EASTBIO SRUC Beyond the average fish: individual behavioural variation as a predictor of resilience and welfare
Deadline 1st December 2026
Kent State University (USA) – PhD in: Clinical Psychology conducting research examining pet caregiver burden and burden transfer to veterinary teams.
Deadline 1st December 2026
King’s College London (UK) – PhD in: Incentives and Barriers: Patent Law in the Age of the 3Rs
Deadline 1st December 2026
Royal Veterinary College (UK) – PhD in: Interdisciplinary Biosciences
Deadline 2nd December 2026
Swansea University (UK) – PhD in: How urban living shapes reproductive decisions and success in herring gulls
Deadline 8th December 2026
University of Exeter (UK) – PhD in: Integrating Machine Learning with One Health Frameworks to Quantify Disease Transmission Pathways between Wildlife and the Environment
Deadline 8th December 2026
University of Exeter (UK) – PhD in: The emotional basis of behaviour
Deadline 8th December 2026
University of Exeter (UK) – PhD in: Raman Spectroscopy for Early On-Farm Diagnosis of Nephrocalcinosis (Kidney Stone Disease) – The #1 Issue of Concern for Salmon and Trout Aquaculture
Deadline 11th December 2026
Max Planck Institute (Germany) – PhD in: Collective Behavior, Sensing and Intelligence
Deadline 11th December 2026
Max Planck Institute (Germany) – PhD in: Neural Dynamics, Cognition and Spatial Decision-Making
Deadline 13th December 2026
University of Bristol (UK) – PhD in: Intergroup communication and conflict in mountain gorillas
No deadline specified
University of Rhode Island (USA) – PhD in Behaviour and Welfare of Companion Cats in Shelter Environments: Contact Dr. Jennifer Link (jklink@uri.edu)
Texas Tech University (USA) – PhD in Equine Health and Welfare: Contact Dr. Lindsay Nakonechny (lnakonec@ttu.edu)
FSVO – Centre for Proper Housing (Switzerland) – PhD on Fattening Bulls
University of California (USA) – PhD in Cognition in Wild, Native Bees
City University of Hong Kong – PhD in “Behaviour and welfare of Hong Kong’s free-ranging feral bovids”
Université Laval (Canada) – PhD in Agroecological Integrated Crop / Livestock System Analysis
University of Copenhagen (Denmark) – Multiple thesis projects in Animal Behaviour and Welfare
Federal Office for Food Safety and Veterinary Affairs (Switzerland) – PhD in: Rooting motivation in fattening pigs
Queens University Belfast and University of Lincoln (UK) – PhD in: Optimising Sustainability in Livestock Systems: A Multi-Criteria Assessment Framework
Monash University (Australia)- PhD in: Human-Animal Interactions
