Dr Gareth Arnott
RESEARCH FOCUS
Dr Gareth Arnott's research focuses on three key areas;
Animal contest behaviour: Understanding the information-gathering and decision-making processes underlying aggressive interactions, working with a range of animal species including vertebrates and invertebrates. Additional behavioural topics being addressed include: animal cognition, personality, and lateralization.
Animal welfare: Minimising aggression in captive environments to improve welfare. E.g. using early life socialisation to reduce aggression during later life regrouping in pigs. Other welfare topics being addressed include: the importance of play behaviour, using novel techniques to better understand animal emotion, examining dairy cow welfare and the welfare of dogs in commercial breeding environments.
Animal welfare sensor development: Working with industry partners to develop a next generation farm animal welfare and performance sensor.
Find out moreRESEARCH Themes
Animal Behaviour and Welfare
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Open to PhD applications in the area of animal behaviour and welfare
Research Students
| Jennifer Weller | Andrew Crump | Naomi Rutherford | Victoria McEvoy | Lucy Oldham |
| PhD title: The effects of early-life social environment on play behaviour, later-life aggression, and assessment ability in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) | PhD title: Exploring emotion-cognition interactions to assess and improve animal welfare | PhD title: The development of systems to improve the health and performance of dairy-origin beef youngstock | PhD title: Quantifying and evaluating factors influencing the socialisation period of puppies reared in commercial breeding environments | PhD title: The role of cognitive ability and affective state during aggressive encounters: implications for contest behaviour and animal welfare |
| Years of study: 2016-2019 | Years of study: 2017-2020 | Years of study: 2016-2019 |
Years of study: 2018-2021 |
Years of study: 2018-2021
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