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Research interests
- Development, validation, and uptake of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment (QBA) across animal species, scientific disciplines, and welfare management contexts (agriculture, zoo, veterinary practice, working animals);
- Development of, and providing training in using, the QBA app for commercial roll-out with industry collaborators. Current projects are with Waitrose supply chains and app developers Medayo;
- Positive animal welfare and inter-disciplinary research on animal emotion;
- Understanding and assessing ‘passive’ welfare states such as boredom and lethargy;
- Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness, integration of these with animal welfare science;
- Social anthropology of human-animal relationships, and integration with animal welfare science.
Projects
2020-2022 Waitrose consultancy QBA app training and roll-out (£60k/year)
2021-2022 RESAS ‘Strategic research programme WP2.2.7, 2.3.12’ (£??)
2020-2021 SRUC Orchard Innovation Hub 'Development and roll-out of QBA mobile app with Waitrose supply chains' (£85k)
2019-2020 BBSRC/AWRN ‘The roll-out of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment (QBA) in commercial livestock welfare management through mobile application technology’ (£40k).
2016-2021 RESAS ‘Strategic research programme RD2.2.7, 2.3.12’ (£??/year)
Supervision
PhD student (2016-2019) ‘The application of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment to laboratory mice’, joint with Newcastle University.
PhD student (2011-2016) ‘Development of welfare assessment protocols for extensively managed sheep’, joint with Edinburgh University.
PhD student (2008-2012) 'Screening on-farm animal welfare – Danish dairy herds', joint with University of Copenhagen.
PhD student (2000-2005) ‘The role of active observer perception in personality-assessments of the domesticated horse: a novel application of Kelly’s Repertory Grid Technique’, joint with Edinburgh University.
Consultancy
Scientific consultant (2018-2021) ‘Shaping inter-species connectedness: training cultures and the emergence of new forms of human-animal relations’. Department of Scociology, University of Warwick.
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Projects
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Collaborative development of positive welfare indicators for farm assurance
Dwyer, C., Lawrence, A., Dixon, L., Mackay, J., Wemelsfelder, F. & Haskell, M.
14/03/16 → 31/03/18
Project: Research
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A Good Animal Life: Bringing awareness of animal sentience into farming practice
Wemelsfelder, F., Vigors, B. & Lawrence, A., 10 May 2022, SRUC's Rural Policy Centre. 2 p. (Research Briefing)Research output: Book/Report/Policy Brief/Technical Brief › Research brief
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Bark to the future: The welfare of domestic dogs during interaction with a positively reinforcing artificial agent
Shaw, N., Wemelsfelder, F. & Riley, L. M., Apr 2022, In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 249, 105595.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Development of a list of terms in Brazilian Portuguese for the qualitative behaviour assessment of broiler chickens
Souza, A. P. O., Wemelsfelder, F., Taconeli, CA. & Molento, CFM., 1 Feb 2021, In: Animal Welfare. 30, 1, p. 49-59 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Once bitten, twice shy: aggressive and defeated pigs begin agonistic encounters with more negative emotions
Oldham, LS., Arnott, G., Camerlink, I., Doeschl-Wilson, A., Farish, M., Wemelsfelder, F. & Turner, S. P., Nov 2021, In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 244, 105488.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Qualitative Behavioral Assessment in Juvenile Farmed Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar ): Potential for On-Farm Welfare Assessment
Jarvis, S., Ellis, M. A., Turnbull, J. F., Rey Planellas, S. & Wemelsfelder, F., 7 Sep 2021, (First published) In: Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 8, 702783.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Measuring Affective States Across Species in Relation to Pain
Andrew Rice (Chair), Jennifer Lofgren (Organiser), Nick Andrews (Member of programme committee), Mette S Herskin (Member of programme committee), Wenlong Huang (Member of programme committee), Duncan Lascelles (Member of programme committee), Victor Owoyele (Member of programme committee), Daniel Pang (Member of programme committee), Dale Sandercock (Member of programme committee), Constanza Meneses (Member of programme committee), Vera Baumans (Participant), Lee Neil (Participant) & Francoise Wemelsfelder (Participant)
25 Feb 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Science and Sentience: Assessing the quality of animal lives
Francoise Wemelsfelder (Speaker)
8 Aug 2019Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Identifying measures of emotion in dairy cattle
Francoise Wemelsfelder (Examiner)
10 Sep 2018Activity: Qualification development/external examination types › External examiner (viva)