Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare

Our aim is to advance responsible animal management, welfare, and sustainable food production while ensuring high product quality. Through research and education, we focus on feed and nutrition, management and environment, ethology and animal ethics, as well as animal welfare and protection.

Close-up of an English Springer Spaniel. Photo by Lisa Chröisty.

Available degree projects

We offer a wide range of thesis opportunities, covering both applied and fundamental topics and focusing on many different animal species.

Some salmon fish. Image from Pixabay.

New doctoral thesis on gut microbiota in salmonids

Shuowen Cao will defend her doctoral thesis on December 18 at 1:15 p.m. in Uppsala.

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An SRB cow stands sniffing her calf, which is lying resting on the cubibles.

New doctoral thesis: Cow and calf together in automatic milking systems

Some pigs in a pen.

New doctoral thesis on animal welfare at slaughter

Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare

SCAW is a centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) that focuses on animal welfare issues.

Young cattle grazing outside SLU Götala beef and lamb research. Photo by Karin Wallin.

SLU Götala Beef and Lamb Research Centre

SLU’s research facility for beef and lamb production is located two kilometres outside Skara.

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