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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This looks like a really interesting conference next year – with a request for a call for papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Stephen Wickens [mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 September 2016 10:09<br>
<b>To:</b> Hannah Buchanan-Smith <h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Call for papers: Measuring animal welfare and applying scientific advances - Why is it still so difficult? UFAW International Symposium 27-29th June 2017, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Dear UFAW LINK,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">We are seeking papers for our symposium in June 2017. I'd be grateful if you could share this call with your colleagues and students. Thanks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Steve</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD">Measuring animal welfare and applying scientific advances
<a name="_GoBack"></a>- Why is it still so difficult?<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD">Venue:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, UK</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> 27-29<sup>th</sup> June 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD">Background and Aims of the Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Animal welfare science is a relatively young field but it is developing rapidly. A recent review noted that over the last two decades the number of scientific publications in this area
has increased by 10-15% annually. This research has been used to make many real improvements to the welfare of animals throughout the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">There seems to be a growing consensus that what matters to those animals that are presumed to experience feelings, and therefore what should matter most to those concerned about animal
welfare, is how those animals feel. However, this raises difficult questions, some of which are fundamental to the development of animal welfare science as a rigorous scientific discipline and the assessment of animal welfare. For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Will we ever be able to demonstrate sentience? Knowing where to draw the line about which animals to care for is important to, avoid wasting scarce resources on animals that are not sentient, and
to ensure that animals that are sentient are protected. Are there new techniques that could help or is the problem insoluble? Where should the line be drawn?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Are the techniques that we have to study emotional state (affect) adequate or are there new and better ways of assessing how animals feel about themselves and their environment? How should we best
choose and interpret measures? Do technological advances offer us alternative approaches? Is it worth trying to put a numerical value on animal welfare or are qualitative measures more appropriate?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">How does time fit into the equation? Over what period of time should welfare be considered – what is meaningful and relevant to the animal? Do animals experience time as we do? How should we weigh
up the challenges and good experiences to come so as to arrive at a view about the animals lifetime experience, and is this worth doing?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">How important is positive welfare? Should preventing suffering be our first priority or should we now be looking to maximise enjoyable experiences for animals in our care too? Is a permanent state
of positive welfare possible, or do animals reset their emotional state so that attempts to achieve positive welfare are doomed to failure as the animal habituates to a better than adequate environment? What happens when those experiences preferred by an animal
have a long-term negative impact on health?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">How robust is the data collected on animal welfare? Are there lessons to be learnt from other areas of research with respect to e.g. blinding, randomization, pre-registration of hypotheses, null
results, meta-analysis, clinical trials?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">With the aim of developing new ideas and of promoting higher quality and better-focused animal welfare science, this symposium will consider whether and how animal welfare scientists
can make progress in these and other areas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD">Speakers will include:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD">
<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Professor Georgia Mason</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> (University of Guelph, Canada), ‘Using welfare indicators to make valid
inference about animals' subjective states, with a focus on HPA responses and stereotypic behaviour’<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Professor Mike Mendl
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">(University of Bristol, UK) ‘Animal affect: What is it, what do we know, and what can we know?’ and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Professor Jaak Panksepp</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> (Washington State University, USA) ‘The emotional feelings of other minds:
From neuroaffective foundations to novel therapeutics (especially depressions)’ <o:p>
</o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070C0">Call for papers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">We would like to hear from anyone interested in making a contribution to the symposium on the subjects and themes detailed above or others relating to measuring animal welfare and to animal welfare
and the sciences and other disciplines associated with it – eg applied ethology, veterinary, physiological and neuroscience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Submissions should feature the title of the proposed presentation, the nature of the presentation – talk or poster, and the name and full contact details of all contributors. Abstracts must be in
English and should be no longer than 400 words. Full details on formatting these can be found on the UFAW website. Time allocated to talks at the meeting is likely to be in region of 20-25 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">The deadline for submission of abstracts is <b><u>30<sup>th</sup> November 2016</u>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Further details on this meeting can be found here:
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD"><a href="http://www.ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/ufaw-events"><span style="color:#4F81BD">http://www.ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/ufaw-events</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">
and updates on </span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ufaw.org.uk/"><span style="color:#4F81BD">social media</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070C0">Contact details:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Stephen Wickens, Royal Holloway 2017
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">UFAW, The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, AL4 8AN, UK
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Tel: +44 (0) 1582 831818; Fax: +44 (0) 1582 831414
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</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#4F81BD"><a href="mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk"><span style="color:#4F81BD">wickens@ufaw.org.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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