All Outputs (36)

Why is the Supervet tour so popular? (2019)
Journal Article

Making science public: challenges and opportunities (2019)
Report

This Programme investigated the relationship between science, politics and publics in the aftermath of an influential 2000 UK House of Lords Science and Society report. We conceptualised top-down initiatives promising greater transparency around the... Read More about Making science public: challenges and opportunities.

Reconciling Autonomy and Beneficence in Treatment Decision-Making for Companion Animal Patients (2018)
Journal Article

This article explores how the concept of consent to medical treatment applies in the veterinary context, and aims to evaluate normative justifications for owner consent to treatment of animal patients. We trace the evolution of the test for valid con... Read More about Reconciling Autonomy and Beneficence in Treatment Decision-Making for Companion Animal Patients.

Science, culture, and care in laboratory animal research: interdisciplinary perspectives on the history and future of the 3Rs (2018)
Journal Article

The principles of the 3Rs—replacement, refinement, and reduction—strongly shape discussion of methods for performing more humane animal research and the regulation of this contested area of technoscience. This special issue looks back to the origins... Read More about Science, culture, and care in laboratory animal research: interdisciplinary perspectives on the history and future of the 3Rs.

'Science Matters' and the public interest: The role of minority engagement (2018)
Book Chapter

Societal sentience: constructions of the public in animal research policy and practice (2017)
Journal Article

The use of non-human animals as models in research and drug testing is a key route through which contemporary scientific knowledge is certified. Given ethical concerns, regulation of animal research promotes the use of less ‘sentient’ animals. This p... Read More about Societal sentience: constructions of the public in animal research policy and practice.

Informed consent in veterinary medicine: ethical implications for the profession and the animal 'patient' (2017)
Journal Article

Informed consent processes are a vital component of both human and veterinary medicine. Current practice encourages veterinarians to learn from insights in the human medical field about how best to achieve valid consent. However, drawing on published... Read More about Informed consent in veterinary medicine: ethical implications for the profession and the animal 'patient'.

"She's a dog at the end of the day": guide dog owners' perspectives on the behaviour of their guide dog (2017)
Journal Article

A guide dog is a domestic dog (Canis familiaris) that is specifically educated to provide mobility support to a blind or visually impaired owner. Current dog suitability assessments focus on behavioural traits, including: trainability, reactivity or... Read More about "She's a dog at the end of the day": guide dog owners' perspectives on the behaviour of their guide dog.

Calling the shots: how individualism is damaging mass vaccination strategies (2017)
Journal Article

‘Doing good by proxy’: Human-animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood (2017)
Journal Article

This paper demonstrates the relevance of animals to medical sociology by arguing that pet owners’ accounts of veterinary decision-making can highlight key sociological themes which have important relevance to both human and animal health. Based on se... Read More about ‘Doing good by proxy’: Human-animal kinship and the ‘donation’ of canine blood.

Exploring attitudes and beliefs towards implementing cattle disease prevention and control measures: a qualitative study with dairy farmers in Great Britain (2016)
Journal Article

Disease prevention and control practices are frequently highlighted as important to ensure the health and welfare of farmed animals, although little is known as to why not many practices are carried out. The aim of this study was to identify the moti... Read More about Exploring attitudes and beliefs towards implementing cattle disease prevention and control measures: a qualitative study with dairy farmers in Great Britain.

Factors influencing veterinary surgeons’ decision-making about dairy cattle vaccination (2016)
Journal Article

The use of vaccines in the cattle industry is widespread; however, there is limited published guidance for use by decision-makers such as farmers and vets. To best support vets in advising dairy farmers on the optimisation of vaccination strategies,... Read More about Factors influencing veterinary surgeons’ decision-making about dairy cattle vaccination.

Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare (2016)
Journal Article

Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from enquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving lab... Read More about Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare.

Farmers’ perception of the role of veterinary surgeons in vaccination strategies on British dairy farms (2015)
Journal Article

There is limited research investigating the motivators and barriers to vaccinating dairy cattle. Veterinary surgeons have been identified as important sources of information for farmers making vaccination and disease control decisions, as well as bei... Read More about Farmers’ perception of the role of veterinary surgeons in vaccination strategies on British dairy farms.

Opening up animal research and science-society relations?: a thematic analysis of transparency discourses in the United Kingdom (2015)
Journal Article

The use of animals in scientific research represents an interesting case to consider in the context of the contemporary preoccupation with transparency and openness in science and governance. In the United Kingdom, organisations critical of animal re... Read More about Opening up animal research and science-society relations?: a thematic analysis of transparency discourses in the United Kingdom.

Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform (2015)
Journal Article

The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966.... Read More about Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform.