How can we measure the emotional states of animals?
Press release 21 May 08
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"The study of animal emotion is an important emerging field in subjects ranging from neuroscience to animal welfare research. Whilst we cannot know for sure what other animals feel, our approach may provide improved methods for indirectly measuring animal emotion and welfare." |
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Professor Mike Mendl |
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Grants awarded
BBSRC Research Grant: Evaluation of pain experience in domestic fowl: associations between clinical symptoms, biochemical markers and bird self-selection of analgesics. (PI: A. Waterman Pearson; Co-Is: C. Nicol, J. Murrell, G. Henderson, M. Mendl, D. Nutt; Collaborating-Investigators in Glasgow / Edinburgh AWP grouping: A. Nolan, S. Fleetwood-Walker). £588,000; 3 years.
DEFRA Research Grant: A County Parish Holding Herd (CPHH) level spatial and temporal analysis of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) dataset (PI: W.J. Browne, with L. Green and G. Medley (Warwick)). £287,457; 2 years.
Tubney Trust / Farm Animal Welfare Trust: Novel commercial broiler genetic selection techniques integrating welfare and production traits. (PI: M. Dawkins, with Food Animal Initiative). £1,500,000; 3 years.
Dogs Trust PhD Studentship: Assessing Quality of Life in Kennelled Dogs (PI: L. Collins; co-Is: D. Pfeiffer, D. Morton). £132000; 3 years.
RCVS Trust: Effects of early post-natal experiences on subsequent pain and stress responsiveness in lambs: (PIs: J. Murrell, C. Clark, M. Mendl) £4972; April - Aug. 2008.
ASAB Project Scholarship (Roz Ellis): Does emotional state affect stimulus generalisation? (PIs: O. Burman, E. Paul, M. Mendl). £1,520; June-Aug 2007.
Nuffield Science Bursary (Zoe Demery): A novel approach to assessment of affective states in animals using successive negative contrast (PIs: O. Burman, E. Paul, M. Mendl). £1,360; June-Aug 2007.
UFAW Vacation Scholarship (John Fennell). Conscious and non-conscious processing of emotions and implications for measuring animal affective states (PIs: E. Paul, O. Burman, M. Mendl). £1,360; June-Aug 2007.
UFAW Vacation Scholarship (Lorna Wilson). Statistical analysis of the latency to choose as a measure of laying hen welfare (PIs: W.J. Browne, C.J. Nicol). £1,360; July-Sept 2008.
UFAW vacation scholarship (Jennifer Jamieson): The impact of early life stress on responses to castration and tail docking in young lambs: (PIs: J. Murrell, C. Clark, M. Mendl). £1360; June – Aug 2008.
Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship (Chris Mills): Effects of early post-natal experiences on subsequent pain responsiveness (PIs: J. Murrell, C. Clark). £1260; Aug – Sept 2008.
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