Integrative Animal Science - Research Projects
Improving Animal Health and Welfare
Welfare Quality: Science and society improving animal welfare in the food quality chain (EU Framework 6)- Development of welfare indicators for farm assurance (Industry)
- Development of a husbandry advisory tool for tail biting in pigs (Industry/RSPCA)
- PIGCAS: Alternatives to castration in pigs (EU Framework 6)
- Inducing Moult in layers without welfare compromise (YAS & Pakistan Higher Education Commission= HEC)
- PigSAFE: Re-designing the farrowing environment from first principles to optimise animal welfare and economic performance (Defra)
- Essential fatty acids and piglet viability (Industry)
- ECONWELFARE: Good animal welfare in socio-economic context: project to promote insight on the impact for the animal, the production chain and society of upgrading animal welfare standards (EU Framework 7)
- PIGHEALTH: Risk factors for pig disease (Defra)
- COREPIG: Prevention of selected diseases and parasites in organic pig herds by means of a HACCP based management and surveillance programme (EU Framework 6).
- MITEeHEN: Non-chemical control of Red Mite in laying hen housing systems (Defra)
- Evaluation of alternative control products for Dermanyssus gallinae in laying hens (Industry)
- Control of Dermanyssus gallinae in Italian farms (Italian Ministry of Health)
- Reduction of animal material for arthropod feeding (NC3Rs)
- Nematode infections in sheep: Designing integrated parasite control strategies (BBSRC / Genesis Farady/ Industry)
- The early detection of health and welfare problems in beef cattle through the automated recording and monitoring of behaviour (EBLEX)
- Use of sensor technology to detect rumen acidosis and other health challenges in the periparturient dairy cow (National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada / Dairy Farmers of Ontario)
Academic staff within this research group
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Sandra Edwards: Research group leader, Professor of Agriculture
Ilias Kyriazakis: Professor of Animal Health and Nutrition
Peter Rowlinson: Senior Lecturer in Animal Production Science
Andrew Beard: Lecturer in Animal Science
Jonathan Guy: Lecturer in Animal Science
Abdul Chaudhry: Seni or Research Associate
Current research students associated with this research group
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Oluwagbemiga Adeleye: Improving piglet survival
Helio Lima Neto: Solanum lycocarpum St Hil. as a novel animal feed additive
Chris Mberema: Improving meat quality in beef cattle
Noraisah Spahat: Evaluation of the economic and environmental sustainability of different broiler chicken housing systems in Malaysia
Ollie Szyszka: Detection of health challenges in beef cattle through changes in feeding, drinking, social behaviour and activity
Nuhu Bello Rano: Poultry
Khairiyah Binti Mat: Dairy cattle fertility
Nikoloaos Voutzourakis: Effect of management and heat stress on milk fat composition in milking sheep in Crete
Mhd Mehdi Khan: Spices as supplements to improve forage utilization in ruminants
Sophia Stavrakakis: Predicting leg soundness through biomechanical assessment of gait in pigs
Oluwaseun Iyasere: Effect of heat stress on welfare and production of broilers and its alleviation through management interventions