UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship

THIS SCHOLARSHIP IS NOW CLOSED.

As part of its endeavours to encourage high quality science likely to lead to substantial advances in animal welfare, UFAW is running a scheme to award UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarships to enable promising veterinary or science graduates to undertake three-year programmes of research leading to degrees at the doctorate level within the British Isles. UFAW would like particularly to encourage applications in the following fields:

 

  • development of methodologies aimed at elucidation of the neurological basis of sentience in animals
  • developments in approaches to alleviating welfare problems in farmed, companion and/or laboratory animals through breeding
  • developments in detection and alleviation of pain
  • development of methods of welfare / quality of life assessment

 

UFAW does not wish to exclude potentially valuable projects in other aspects of animal welfare science and applications for work in other areas will also be considered.

The stipend for science graduates will be £16,283 rising to £19,230 for the third year (London weighting £18,211 rising to £21,507 for the third year) and for veterinary graduates, £17,097 rising to £20,192 for the third year (London weighting £19,121 rising to £22,583 for the third year). In addition, research costs up to £10,000 pa and approved tuition fees up to £3235 pa will be met (Applications for tuition fees in excess of this amount may be considered).

Closing date: 1st December 2006.  THIS SCHOLARSHIP IS NOW CLOSED.

 

In 2005, a UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship was awarded to Ms Jessica Mettam who is to research the detection and alleviation of pain in fish at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool.

Very large numbers of fish are subjected to invasive procedures during capture and farming, and the question of whether or not they experience pain is currently controversial. Ms Mettam’s project, under the supervision of Dr. Lynne Sneddon, aims to determine whether responses to pain are not simply reflexive, and the effect of analgesics. This information will both inform the debate about capacity for pain in fish and determine methods of alleviating pain.

 

See the UFAW 2005-2006 Annual Report here for updates on other Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship projects.