UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship

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UFAW Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship

 

The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

(UFAW) is an independent registered charity that

works to develop and promote improvements in the

welfare of all animals through scientific and

educational activity worldwide.

 

UFAW:

-Promotes and supports developments in the

science and technology that underpin advances in

animal welfare.

-Promotes education in animal care and welfare.

-Provides information, organises symposia,

conferences and meetings, publishes books,

videos, technical reports and the international

quarterly scientific journal Animal Welfare.

-Provides expert advice to governments and other

organisations and helps to draft and amend laws

and guidelines.

-Enlists the energies of animal keepers,

scientists, veterinarians, lawyers and others who

care about animals.

 

 

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). Click here for

further details.

<http://www.ufaw.org.uk/AWResearchtrainingscholarship.php>

 

Application for this award will be a two-stage

process. Initially, supervisors are required to

submit a brief Concept Note by 1st December 2006.

 

Further details and an application form can be found by visiting the

UFAW website http://www.ufaw.org.uk/AWResearchtrainingscholarship.php

 

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare The

Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Herts

AL4 8AN, UK

Email: ufaw

Direct tel/fax: +(0)1276 500880

Office: +(0)1582 831818 (tel), 831414 (fax) UK Registered Charity

Number: 207996

 

The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

(UFAW) is an independent registered UK charity

that works to develop and promote improvements in

the welfare of all animals through scientific and

educational activity worldwide.

 

 

 

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