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  Harnessing deep learning and data science to create a research data platform of intensively monitored cattle to underpin sustainable food security and animal welfare research
University of Bristol Bristol Veterinary School
  Prof A Dowsey
Application Deadline: 8 April 2019
The project. A growing population and climate change are stressing the availability of food worldwide. At the same time, high animal welfare and health practice is more important than ever.
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  PhD position on dynamic modelling of animal behaviours using machine learning, intelligent sensors and computational ethology
KU Leuven Division Animal and Human Health Engineering
  Dr T Norton
Applications accepted all year round
The laboratory of Measure, Model, Manage Bio-Responses (M3-BIORES) is a world-leading research laboratory focussing on real-time monitoring and management of animal behaviours.
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  PhD studentship in animal welfare: Refining weaning age in macaques destined for neuroscience research
Newcastle University Institute of Neuroscience
  Dr M Bateson
Application Deadline: 3 April 2019
Number of awards. 1. Start date and duration. September 2019 for a three-year PhD. Overview. Newcastle University and the Centre for Macaques (CFM) are looking for a PhD student for an NC3Rs funded project studying the impacts of different weaning ages in laboratory primates (rhesus and cynomologus macaques).
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  Animal emotion and welfare: a decision-making and computational approach
University of Bristol Bristol Veterinary School
  Prof M Mendl
Application Deadline: 8 April 2019
The project. An animal’s welfare depends on its emotional state (states elicited by rewarding and punishing events).
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  Sound analysis of broiler chicken - what can we tell about health, welfare and productivity from sound patterns during growth
University of Bristol Bristol Veterinary School
  Dr A Butterworth
Application Deadline: 3 June 2019
The project. Vocalisation sounds in broiler chickens, reared under intensive farm conditions, may have potential to be used as a tool to improve their health and welfare status.
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  PhD Swine Welfare - the influence of early life management practices towards the development of resilience characteristics in pigs
University of Saskatchewan Western College of Veterinary Medicine
  Dr Y Seddon
Application Deadline: 15 May 2019
Research area. The focus of this work is to determine the contribution of specific early life management practices towards the development of resilience characteristics in pigs, and the relationship to pig welfare.
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  Lumpfish Welfare and Nutrition on Growing Farms: developing optimal nutritional requirements for juvenile lumpfish based on a survey of wild populations
University of Stirling Institute of Aquaculture
  Dr S Rey
Application Deadline: 28 March 2019
The University of Stirling is one of the UK’s most progressive research universities, with leading expertise in the fields of culture and society, health and wellbeing, the environment and people, enterprise and the economy, and sport.
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  Can the hierarchical behaviour of dairy cows tell us about their experience of historical treatment for disease, and what can we tell from their behaviours about future response to disease?
University of Bristol Bristol Veterinary School
  Dr A Butterworth
Application Deadline: 3 June 2019
The project. Animal health can present economic and animal welfare concerns for dairy farmers.
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  Could blood digestion be the poultry red mite’s Achille’s heel – a novel ‘omic and gene knockdown approach to the control of Dermanyssus gallinae
Moredun Research Institute Parasitology
  Dr S Burgess, Dr A Nisbet, Dr A Bowman, Dr J Sternberg
Application Deadline: 12 April 2019
Infestation of laying hen houses with poultry red mites (Dermanyssus gallinae) causes major animal welfare and economic problems for the egg-producing industry worldwide, costing in excess of €231 million per year in the European Union alone in control and production losses.
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  Links between animal behaviour, health and welfare
University of Bristol Faculty of Health Sciences
  Dr SDE Held
Applications accepted all year round
An animal’s behaviour both causes and reflects changes in its health and welfare. The biological processes underlying these relationships are increasingly well understood in humans.
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