Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford
Fellow in Biological Sciences, Somerville College, Oxford
Address: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Animal welfare, vision in birds, animal signalling, behavioural synchrony, animal consciousness
CURRENT ANIMAL WELFARE RESEARCH
> Measuring welfare automatically using optical flow (with Professor Stephen Roberts, Dept. Engineering Science and Dr. Russell Cain)
> Genetics and welfare of broilers and breeders with FAI (Food Animal Initiative)
> Synchrony and welfare in cattle (with Dr. Mason Porter, Mathematics Institute)
Good welfare is defined as animals being healthy and having what they want
FORTHCOMING BOOKS (due for publication in 2012)
Marian Stamp Dawkins Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare and Human Well-Being. Oxford University Press.
Aubrey Manning and Marian Stamp Dawkins An Introduction to Animal Behaviour. 6th Edition. Cambridge University Press.
