DUTY OF CARE TO COMPANION ANIMALS
The overarching project objectives are to: 

1. Gain a qualitative understanding of the cognitive elements of duty of care, including the salient values, beliefs, and attitudes in Victorian companion animal carers, particularly those that abuse, neglect, or mistreat their animals. 
2. Develop a range of targeted intervention messages and appropriate delivery methods. 
3. Test the effectiveness of intervention messages and methods to form the basis of an extensive evidence-based behaviour change program.

Part 1 of this PhD project (Targeting key cognitive drivers of companion animal owner behaviours to improve animal welfare, funded by the University of Melbourne and supported by RSPCA Victoria, will conclude in 2020. PhD student Carmen Glanville.
Supervisors: Grahame Coleman, Lauren Hemsworth and Paul Hemsworth.

For further details, please contact Grahame Coleman.

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