Tenth Annual Meeting of the AWRN

Date: 17/09/2026

Venue: Chester Zoo, Chester, England

  “AWRN at 10: Learning from the Past, Shaping the Future” Main Event - 17th & 18th September 2026 Early Career Afternoon - 16th September 2026   Please note: All meeting...

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AWRN-funded Workshop on Interdisciplinary working, artificial intelligence and animal welfare science

Date: 17/09/2025

Venue: Online

    This workshop on "Interdisciplinary working, artificial intelligence and animal welfare science: cultivating solutions to guide collaborative research endeavours" is being organised by Alison Bard (University of...

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Animal Welfare and Environmental Sustainability in Seafood Production

Date: 15/09/2025

Venue: RVC Camden Campus

        Overview To save the planet, we should all be eating more seafood’. This recommendation, known as the ‘blue transformation’ has increasingly been amplified by academics, NGOs, and...

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Ninth Annual Meeting of the AWRN

Date: 10/09/2025

Venue: Engineers' House, Bristol, UK

    The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Animal Welfare Research Network took place from 9th to 11th September 2025.      Location of meeting   The Ninth Annual Meeting of AWRN was...

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AWRN-Funded Workshop on It's Not Nothing: Addressing publication bias and poor reproducibility

Date: 11/08/2025

Venue: Riddel Hall, Belfast

Organised by Francesca Johansen, Sinead O'Callaghan and Holly Vickery, held at Queen's University Belfast (Monday 11th August 2025) Workshop content: Publication bias and poor reproducibility is increasingly being recognised...

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Technology in Wildlife Welfare Workshop

Date: 04/07/2025

Venue: University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonnington Campus

          This workshop is being organised by Matyas Liptovszky (University of Nottingham) and will take place on Friday 4th July 2025 at the University of Nottingham, School...

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Strategies and challenges to greater participatory engagement in animal welfare research

Date: 31/03/2025

Venue: Harper Adams University, Shropshire, UK

    Stakeholder engagement is crucial in promoting positive animal welfare, and social science methodologies underpin successful advancement in the field of animal welfare. Combining  classical biological science-based approaches...

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AIBIO-UK Meets AWRN: Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Animal Welfare?

Date: 24/03/2025

Venue: Doubletree Hilton, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln, LN1 1YW

      This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on artificial intelligence with welfare researchers and stakeholders for talks and discussion on how AI might be used to...

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Workshop on Enhancing Calf Welfare with Animal- and User-Centred technologies, lifetime data insights and interoperable systems

Date: 06/02/2025

Venue: Harper Adams University, Shropshire, UK

This workshop which is funded by the BBSRC Seed Funding for Tech in Animal Welfare, will examine “Enhancing Calf Welfare with Animal- and User-Centred technologies, lifetime...

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Workshop on Use of Artificial Intelligence to Understand Equine Behaviour

Date: 29/01/2025

Venue: University of Nottingham

This workshop which is funded by the BBSRC Seed Funding for Tech in Animal Welfare, will examine the "Use of artificial intelligence to understand equine behaviour:...

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