Professor Gareth Arnott
RESEARCH FOCUS
Professor 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
| 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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