Animal Welfare Postgrad Positions
Deadline 23rd October 2026
Max Planck Institute (Germany) – PhD in: Cultural Grooming and Social Bonds in Great Apes
Deadline 23rd November 2026
Harper Adams (UK) – PhD in: Balancing education and welfare: Quantifying the impact of farm animal use in education to inform evidence-based guidelines
Harper Adams (UK) – PhD in: The Development of Behavioural Phenotypes in Eurasian Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris): Interactions Between Individual Traits and Environmental Conditions
Harper Adams (UK) – PhD in: Improving animal welfare practices in Veterinary Education: an evidence-based approach
Harper Adams (UK) – PhD in: Integrating Welfare and Epigenetics to Understand the Long-Term Effects of Captivity in Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio)
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 1st December 2026
Kent State University (USA) – PhD in: Clinical Psychology conducting research examining pet caregiver burden and burden transfer to veterinary teams.
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
