Area of research
Small Animals · Animal Science and Zoology
Research interest
Research interests include Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, and Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock.
Opportunities and challenges to enhance the welfare of livestock through positive human-animal relationships
Perceptions of dairy cow-handling situations: A comparison of public and industry samples.
Research note: Expert opinions of feather sucking and licking behavior in meat chicken breeder birds.
Rethinking the utility of the Five Domains model.
The Animal-Human Interface in Farm Animal Production: Animal Fear, Stress, Reproduction and Welfare.
Measurement of corticosterone in the plasma, eggs and faeces of laying hens
Environmental Complexity: Additional Human Visual Contact Reduced Meat Chickens' Fear of Humans and Physical Items Altered Pecking Behavior.
Costs and Benefits of Improving Farm Animal Welfare
The impact of management, husbandry and stockperson decisions on the welfare of laying hens in Australia
Physical workload and psychosocial working conditions in Swedish pig transport drivers
Cage production and laying hen welfare
Effects of the presence of zoo visitors on zoo‐housed little penguins (
<i>Eudyptula minor</i>
)
Positive Human Contact and Housing Systems Impact the Responses of Piglets to Various Stressors.
Effects of Positive Human Contact during Gestation on the Behaviour, Physiology and Reproductive Performance of Sows.
The Power of a Positive Human-Animal Relationship for Animal Welfare.
Natural behaviours, their drivers and their implications for laying hen welfare
Frequent range visits further from the shed relate positively to free-range broiler chicken welfare.
The Impact of a Negative Media Event on Public Attitudes Towards Animal Welfare in the Red Meat Industry.
Tail Docking of Piglets 2: Effects of Meloxicam on the Stress Response to Tail Docking.
Effect of Covering a Visitor Viewing Area Window on the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed Little Penguins (<i>Eudyptula minor</i>).
Tail Docking of Piglets 2: Effects of Meloxicam on the Stress Response to Tail Docking.
The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare.
Frequent range visits further from the shed relate positively to free-range broiler chicken welfare
Positive attitudes, positive outcomes: The relationship between farmer attitudes, management behaviour and sheep welfare.
The effects of herd size on the welfare of dairy cows in a pasture-based system using animal- and resource-based indicators.
Effects of Regulating Visitor Viewing Proximity and the Intensity of Visitor Behaviour on Little Penguin (<i>Eudyptula minor</i>) Behaviour and Welfare.
Lame cows on Australian dairy farms: A comparison of farmer-identified lameness and formal lameness scoring, and the position of lame cows within the milking order.
Evaluating the welfare of extensively managed sheep.
The effects of floor space and nest box access on the physiology and behavior of caged laying hens.