Animal Welfare Postgrad Positions

Deadline 19th June 2026

Queens University Belfast (UK) – PhD in: Exploring the potential to breed for positive social behaviour to improve animal welfare and efficiency

Deadline 21st June 2026

Nord University (Norway) – PhD in: Development of automatic monitoring of dairy cow and calf behaviour

Deadline 21st June 2026

University of Konstanz (Germany) – PhD in: WildBotics DC09: Collective and Ecological Dynamics of Savanna Herbivore Communities. Contact: Prof. Dr. Iain Couzin icouzin@ab.mpg.de and Dr. Blair Costelloe blaircostelloe@gmail.com

Deadline 27th July 2026

University of Glasgow (UK) – PhD in: The effect of preweaning milk replacer intake on growth, rumen development and long-term productivity of dairy calves, including economic and environmental cost benefit analysis.

Deadline 31st July 2026

Royal Veterinary College, London (UK) – PhD in: Targeting individualised dietary management for cats with azotaemic CKD: Advanced renal care

Deadline 31st July 2026

SRUC (UK) – Funding from Wild Animal Initiative to study MSc International Animal Welfare

No deadline specified

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