Events
Details of events from the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare.
World Animal Day/Large Animals 3Rs Event
SRUC Animal Behaviour and Welfare team, JMICAWE and BioResearch and Veterinary Services, University of Edinburgh, are delighted to announce the 4th Animal Welfare Day, at the Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush Campus on Thursday 3rd October. The theme this year is 'Animal Sentience and Emotions' and we will offer a packed and exciting programme of talks, exhibitions, opportunities to see research facilities, discussion and debate on this topic! The preliminary programme is below.
The event is free but so that we can keep track of numbers for catering purposes, and for security, please register here: Registration (Eventbrite) is required
Programme (may be subject to change)
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09:30 |
Arrival, coffee, place posters |
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10:00 |
Welcome and Introduction
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Research in Animal Sentience and Emotions |
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10:05 |
Animal sentience: implications for understanding animal welfare |
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10:30 |
Face-to-face: Goats can interpret facial expression of other goats |
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10:55 |
Exploring the biology of positive emotions using the rat tickling model |
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11:20 |
What are the positives? Exploring farmers’ perspectives of positive animal welfare |
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11:45 |
What is so positive about positive animal welfare? |
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12:10 |
Recent advances in assessing emotional aspect of pain in animals |
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12:35 |
Lunch, networking and exhibits
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Application of 3Rs |
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14:35 |
Assessment of severity in animal research |
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15:00 |
Panel discussion on 3Rs and animal sentience |
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16:15 |
Conclusions and depart |