Bridging Research Disciplines to Advance Animal Welfare Science

Section 1: Crossing disciplines 1: Interdisciplinary Research to Advance Animal Welfare Science: An Introduction 2: Pragmatics for Cross-disciplinary Collaboration 3: Doing Animal Welfare Transdisciplinary Research with Stakeholders: Advantages, Pitfalls and Hands-on Solutions 4: Interdisciplinarity and the Dilemmas of Knowledge Section 2: Applying other disciplines in animal welfare research 5: Human-centred Research Approaches to Improve Animal Welfare: Survey Design and Stakeholder Involvement 6: Human Behaviour Change Models for Improving Animal Welfare 7: Applying Economic Models to Assess the Viability of Animal Welfare Interventions 8: Application of Psychometrics to Assess Quality of Life in Animals 9: Behavioural Tests for Learning and Cognition in Humans and Animals 10: Using Neuroscience to Better Understand Animals and their Welfare 11: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Determining Social Behaviours of Animals 12: Improving Animal Welfare Using Genetic and Genomic Tools 13: Epigenetic Tools to Identify Stress and Exposure to Detrimental Conditions in Production Animals 14: Using Principles from Behavioural Ecology to Address Animal Welfare Issues 15: Practical Considerations for the Use of Precision Livestock Farming to Improve Animal Welfare