Who we are

ANDREW KNIGHT is Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics, and Founding Director of the Centre for Animal Welfare; a veterinary specialist in animal welfare accredited in the UK, EU, US and New Zealand; a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; and a Principal Fellow of Advance HE. Andrew founded and leads Winchester’s distance-learning MSc Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. He regularly publishes and presents, and has an extensive series of YouTube videos, on animal welfare and ethics issues. His work has attracted 13 awards and 13 grants, including a University of Winchester Student-Led Teaching Award. ROBERT GRAY is a Lecturer in Environmental History. After a BA in History at the University of Leeds, Robert completed an MA in Central European History (with Hungarian) at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, from where he also gained his PhD on land reform and the Hungarian peasantry in 2010. His teaching interests include environmental history from the beginnings of time to the present day and covering much of the world (and beyond), as well as a more limited range of Modern and Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe. ANNA KING is Professor of Theology, Religious Studies and Philosophy. For her doctorate, Anna spent two years living in a sacred pilgrimage centre on the banks of the Ganges with religious specialists. She has since then undertaken periods of ethnographic fieldwork in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal and Myanmar. Anna is interested in the interface between human rights and religious and cultural particularism, and in in religious attitudes to non-human animals. She is the founder-editor of Religions of South Asia (RoSA), and the contributing editor of several books. She has published numerous articles and was consultant to two ethnographic films. NATALIE LIGHT is a Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist and has been working professionally in the companion animal sector since 2006. She graduated from University of Southampton with a Zoology BSc (2:1) and Newcastle University in Applied Animal Behaviour & Welfare PGDip. She is currently completing her PhD at University of Winchester, is a Fellow of Advance HE and a part-time lecturer on the Animal Welfare and Society BA Hons at University of Winchester. JENNY MACE is a part-time lecturer in our MSc in Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law, having graduated with Distinction from the same MSc herself in 2018. She recently co-authored a paper based on a mixed-methods study within Animals, with another paper forthcoming. Faunalytics has also published several of her research articles such as ‘The reality of humane slaughter in the UK’. She is a scholar member of the Animals and Society Institute and is a Fellow of Advance HE. STEVEN MCCULLOCH is Senior Lecturer in Human-Animal Studies. He qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 2002 from Bristol University and holds a BA Philosophy from Birbeck College, London University. Steven has a PhD from the RVC, London on the political representation of animals. Steven is ‘Animals in Public Policy, Politics and Society’ Section Editor for Animals. He is on the editorial board for the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Steven is a diplomat of ECAWBM and a recognised veterinary specialist in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. NEIL MESSER is Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology, Religion and Philosophy, University of Winchester. His research, teaching and supervision are focused on Christian ethics, including bioethics and animal ethics, and the

interaction of science and theology. Recent and forthcoming publications include Theological Neuroethics: Christian Ethics Meets the Science of the Human Brain (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Science in Theology: Encounters between Science and the Christian Tradition (Bloomsbury, forthcoming, 2020). He is currently working on a University-funded collaborative project on the interactions of neuroscience, theology and ethics.

THOMAS NØRGAARD is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education Studies and Liberal Arts. He received his DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford in 2002 with a thesis on compassion. He contributes primarily to Winchester’s Value Studies Scheme, and to programmes in Modern Liberal Arts, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He is the Director of Winchester’s Institute for Value Studies and interim leader of the King Alfred Award Scheme. In 2016, Thomas was shortlisted for one of the student-led teaching awards (Best Delivered Module) and received a Learning and Teaching Award for his work in the Institute for Value Studies. LISA RILEY is a Lecturer in Animal Welfare. Also an animal welfare scientist and primatologist, specialising in zoo welfare assessment and cognition, environmental enrichment and welfare, Lisa has over five years’ experience lecturing and managing animal welfare programmes. She has helped organisations campaign to raise awareness of the pet primate industry in the UK, and the need for prohibition or regulation. Lisa was previously an RSPCA Senior Scientist, where she instigated a primate rehoming scheme to rescue traumatised pet primates and provide them with safe, specialised care and an opportunity to experience good welfare, trust and good health. LIAM SATCHELL is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Winchester, where he specialises in theoretical and methodological issues in applied research. His work focuses on the psychology of individual and is the Secretary for the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences. From this perspective, he has conducted research into personality and behavioural problems in human and non-human animals. His current research focuses on examining ways to efficiently measure welfare and wellbeing of individual animals (with Dr Lisa Riley). Elsewhere he works in other applied psychology fields of mental health, crime, sports, and education. AMORET WHITAKER is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Studies and Programme Leader of our BA (Hons) Forensic Studies programme. Her qualifications include a BSc in Zoology, an MSc in Taxonomy and Biodiversity, and a PhD in Forensic Entomology. She also has a Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences. She specialises in Forensic Entomology and since 2004 has undertaken forensic casework throughout the UK for many police forces and forensic providers, attending crime scenes, deposition sites and postmortems, analysing data and submitting reports, and attending court as required. Within the Centre for Animal Welfare her teaching applies forensic science to animal cruelty and abuse cases.

VISITING PROFESSORS

DAVID CLOUGH is Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chester. He has recently completed the landmark two-volume monograph On Animals (2012, 2019), on the place of animals in Christian theology and ethics. He is the cofounder of CreatureKind (http://becreaturekind. org), an organization engaging Christians with farmed animal welfare, and Principal Investigator for a three-year AHRC-funded project on the Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare in partnership with major UK churches. He is a Methodist lay preacher and has represented the Methodist Church on national ecumenical working groups on the ethics of warfare and climate change. PHILIP LYMBERY is Global CEO of Compassion in World Farming, President of Eurogroup for Animals, Brussels and founding Board member of World

Federation for Animals. He’s an award-winning author, ornithologist, photographer, naturalist, animal advocate; played leading roles in major animal welfare reforms, including Europe-wide bans on veal crates for calves and barren battery cages for laying hens; and directed global engagement with over 1,000 leading corporates, resulting in commitments to better lives for over two billion animals annually. Philip is a recognised thought-leader and media spokesperson on issues relating to industrial agriculture, including its impact on animal welfare, wildlife and the environment. BERNARD E. ROLLIN is University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Animal Sciences, and University Bioethicist at Colorado State University. He authored Natural and Conventional Meaning (1976), Animal Rights and Human Morality (1981, 1993 & 2006), The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Scientific Change (1988 &1998), Farm Animal Welfare (1995), The Frankenstein Syndrome (1995), Science and Ethics (2006) and Putting the Horse Before Descartes (2011). He edited The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research (1989 & 1995). He is one of the leading scholars in animal rights and consciousness and has lectured over 1,500 times internationally. PAULA SPARKS is a Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester teaching an animal law and policy module to undergraduate students, covering topics around the legal protection of animals used in farming and research and for wildlife and companion animals. She is also executive chairperson of the UK Centre for Animal Law (A-LAW), a charity whose vision is a world where animals are fully protected by law. In her role at A-LAW she oversees the programme of animal law events, publications, and student outreach. She also works closely with animal advocacy groups, lawyers, and academics and frequently lectures about animal law.

EXTERNAL ADVISOR

PROF. PETER SINGER, Princeton University

RESEARCH STUDENTS

PAM ADAMS-WRIGHT: ‘An investigation into why post-weaning stereotypical pacing develops in red squirrel kittens at Wildwood Escot and Wildwood Kent’ REBECCA HAMMERTON: ‘Keeper perceptions of captive primate diets: nutritional and welfare perspectives’

ELIZABETH ROE: ‘Breeding Success and Welfare in Aye-Ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis): Wild and Captive Perspectives’ NICKY SHAW: ‘Responses of the domestic dog to artificial intelligence technology: training and welfare perspectives’