Contact
Centre of Excellence in Animal Welfare Science
E-mail: AWScience@slu.se
Telephone: 018-671622
Projects
Last changed: 14 March 2019
Here is a sample of ongoing research projects at SLU:
- Animal welfare in modern production systems for fish
- Behaviour of dogs in an office environment
- Data from animal welfare controls: an epidemiological analysis
- Development of a method to study the relationship between dogs and owners
- Human caregiving behaviour and its effect on emotional bonding in dogs
- Impact of early gut microflora colonization on behaviour in pigs: Investigating the microbiota-gut-brain axis
- Indicators of positive emotional states in dogs
- Loading and unloading of pigs at transport to slaughter
- Optimal light environment for laying hens
- Physiological assessments for improved welfare of farmed fish
- Preparing for the challenges and opportunities of life: effects of early experience on adaptive plasticity in laying hens
- The effect of transport cage size on the welfare of working dogs
- The link between positive animal welfare early in life and enhanced immune competence in dairy cows
- The welfare of farmed fish at the time of slaughter
- Using body language to assess emotional states in dairy cows
To find out more about our ongoing research at Linköping University, visit The AVIAN Behavioural Genomics and Physiology group.
Contact
Page editor: Yezica.Norling@slu.se
