In December 2019, Professor Cynthia Burek signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Univerity's previous Vice Chancellor Professor Tim Wheeler.
January 6, 2020
Biological Sciences MRes student Jessica Harley is to develop a welfare assessment protocol for free-living and conservation grazing ponies.
December 5, 2019
PhD student Kate Peters has recently published her first paper in the journal Conservation Genetics Resources.
December 4, 2019
Anna Muir and Kate Peters were awarded the Positive Change Award at the Staff Teaching Awards, part of the Learning and Teaching Conference at the University of Chester, for their work to promote gender equality in science.
December 4, 2019
How can behaviour, social networks and hormone analysis be combined to effectively monitor welfare in captive primates? Staff and students found out more about cutting edge research at Chester Zoo in our first departmental research seminar this year.
October 3, 2019
Dr Krista McLennan attended the annual Animal Welfare Research Network meeting on 16th and 17th September, held at Bristol University.
September 19, 2019
This year our Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Research Group was very well represented at the BIAZA (British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums) Research Conference in Llandudno (8-10th July 2019). Prof Tessa Smith, Dr Lottie Hosie, Dr Sonya Hill, Dr Christina Stanley, Morgan Welch and Callie Turner enjoyed a fabulous two days of presentations and workshops on zoo animal behaviour and welfare. Whilst there, we showcased our department’s commitment to high impact research in this area, presenting talks and posters on a wide range of taxa.
May 28, 2019
Research by a University of Chester graduate suggests that under-road tunnels, designed to help frogs, toads and newts pass safely across a highway, would benefit from retaining water, to help reverse the worrying population declines of some amphibians.
May 7, 2019
Two former Master’s students at the University of Chester have provided the first evidence of an endangered monkey species in a particular Ghanaian reserve in over 20 years.
May 2, 2019
Dr Krista McLennan has published a new paper entitled ‘Development of an Automated Pain Facial Expression Detection System for Sheep (Ovis aries)’ in the journal Animals.