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I have had a long standing research interest in maternal behaviour, mother-offspring interactions and offspring development since 1988, involving research in a variety of large and small animal models (sheep, pigs, horses, cattle, mice and guinea pigs).
Mar 15, 2019 · Cathy Dwyer is the Director of the Jeanne Marchig International Centre of Animal Welfare Education and the first Chair of Scotland's independent Animal Welfare Commission. She is a leading expert in animal behaviour and welfare research and education, and advises various international animal welfare bodies.
Professor Cathy Dwyer is both the Director of the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education (JMICAWE) at the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Medicine (R (D)SVS), and the Head of the Animal Behaviour and Welfare research group at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
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I did a PhD in prenatal development at the Royal Veterinary College in London, and then was successful in winning a five-year post doctoral position at SRUC (SAC as it was then) to research maternal behaviour and lamb survival, even though I had not worked in animal behaviour since my undergraduate courses. This was a good lesson that your PhD is f...
Research is an interesting career in many ways as often the keys to success are in your own hands – winning grants, writing papers, building your own reputation in your chosen field of science. This is both positive and negative, as sometimes grant winning seems pretty random (see below) and this can be a recipe for a poor work-life balance as succ...
Each new role comes with a new set of skills and challenges, and usually the day after you take up the role you are treated as if you have been doing it for years. You are asked to make decisions on the basis of a very imperfect grasp of the situation and history of an issue. So there is a fair amount of flying by the seat of your pants and hoping ...
Recently we were not successful in securing an endowment that would have secured the future working of the JMICAWE for many years to come. The noises from the funder had been very positive and so we had already started to think about how this would work, so to learn that this was not going to happen was a bit of a shock. However, this has provided ...
Five years ago I was a bit newer into the head of Animal Behaviour and Welfare research role than I am today. I like to think I probably do the job a bit better now than then, although some of that has been about accepting that I can’t do the same amount of research as I did at the start. I had not considered that I would also be running the Marchi...
Budgeting and the financial side of project or team management is still the aspect of the job that I like least. Chasing the pennies up and down the columns of a spreadsheet can be pretty mind-numbing and I can always think of a myriad of more interesting tasks to be doing. But it does matter that we have enough money to do the things that we want ...
Jun 26, 2020 · Professor Cathy Dwyer. Animal Behaviour and Welfare, SRUC and Director, Jeanne Ma rchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education. Cathy is head of the Animal Behaviour and Welfare Research Team at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) in Edinburgh since 2011.
Professor Cathy Dwyer is Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare at Scotland’s Rural College and sits as a scientific advisor on various international animal welfare bodies, including the EU Animal Welfare Platform, the Global Animal Partnership, and Dog’s Trust.
Nov 5, 2015 · Position: Head of Animal Behaviour and Welfare. Institute: SRUC. Research Interests and Approaches: My main research interests are in mother-offspring relationships, including prenatal development of offspring, neurobiology of maternal care, maternal attachment, vocalisations and the impact that the mother has on the development of her offspring.
