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.
May 2, 2019
Dr Krista McLennan travelled to Edinburgh in the beginning of April to attend the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) conference, Fit for the Future.
April 30, 2019
Dr Lottie Hosie & Prof Tessa Smith recently presented their research at the Amphibian Conservation Research Symposium in Manchester.
April 30, 2019
Dr Howard Nelson and Dr Ellie Devenish-Nelson presented at the 'Unifying Tropical Ecology: Strengthening Collaborative Science Symposium', a joint meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology and the British Ecological Society Tropical Ecology Group held in Edinburgh in April.
April 3, 2019
On 20th March, the Animal Behaviour & Welfare Research Group was proud to host a mini-conference on how to best overcome barriers to high quality captive behavioural research. Five external speakers and three University of Chester colleagues covered a wide range of methods, taxa and experience in this sector.
January 6, 2019
At the start of 2019, Dr Anna Muir and PhD students, Kate Peters and Rachel Ball, attended the 52ndPopulation Genetics Group meeting in Oxford to present their research, to hear about cutting-edge research taking place across the country, and to develop collaborations.
December 10, 2018
Ryan Nolan, who has just graduated from our MRes Biological Sciences (Wildlife Behaviour and Conservation) programme, was delighted to be selected to present his research project results at the Primate Society of Great Britain winter conference at Bristol Zoo last week.