Ms. Rutu Galea

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. Rutu is investigating risk factors to tail biting within the CRC-P ‘Eliminating pig tail removal to improve welfare and industry sustainability’.

Leigh Atkinson

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. Furthering our understanding of temperament traits in sheep and how these relate to the effect of disturbances on postnatal ewe behaviour.

Laura Field

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. Laura's PhD is titled 'Rearing calves for the future: exploring relationships between dairy calf rearing practices, stockperson attitudes and behaviour, and welfare outcomes on Australian dairy farms' .

Tanishka Munjal

Honour’s student, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. Examining the impact of placentophagia on sow and piglet performance in systems with both restricted and loose housing.

Amelia Sofra

Honour's Student, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. Examining the effect of climatic conditions on piglet welfare and overlays in free-range systems.

Belinda Hall

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. The use and effectiveness of cognitive enrichments in zoo animals.

Madeleine Woodruff

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. How can best practice become normal practice? Using tail docking in sheep as an example.

Steven Impey

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. Project title: Validation and development of computer vision based smart health monitoring technologies for the early detection of disease in pigs (Sus domesticus) in commercial Australian pork production systems.

Maxine Fogarty

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne. Max is researching smothering in free range and barn layer systems.

Buddhika Liyanage Don

Master's student, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Examining the use of thermal images in detecting health issues and heat stress in lactating sows.

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