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Ian J.H. Duncan, PhD Department of Animal and Poultry Science Background/Area of Expertise: Dr. Duncan has a BSc in Agriculture, Honours in Animal Husbandry, and a PhD in Animal Behaviour. He has worked for 20 years at the Poultry Research Centre in Edinburgh (now the Roslin Institute, home of Dolly the sheep) on welfare problems of poultry. Topics ranged from the fundamental (Do hens have behavioural needs?) to the applied (What is the least stressful way to catch and transport poultry?) Dr. Duncan is now a Professor at the University of Guelph and hold the University Chair in Animal Welfare. He has expanded his research to cover the welfare of pigs, cattle and fish and can talk about just about anything to do with welfare. Bio: Ian Duncan studied for his PhD in the late 1960s at the Poultry Research Centre (PRC) Edinburgh with a topic of frustration and conflict in the domestic fowl. He was thus one of the first people to take a scientific approach to welfare. He worked at the PRC on welfare topics in poultry for 20 years before emigrating to Canada in 1989. He is Professor of Applied Ethology at the University of Guelph and holds the oldest University Chair in Animal Welfare in North America. In his research, he is developing methods of asking farm animals what they feel about the conditions in which they are kept and the procedures to which they are subjected. He has published more than 150 scientific papers connected to animal welfare. Ian is also heavily involved in teaching; his third-year undergraduate course on farm animal welfare has more than 170 students currently registered. Presentation Specific to Which Livestock Industry: Poultry sector or a welfare topic to any general audience. Presentation Title: What is animal welfare? How to assess animal welfare. In what ways can animals suffer? Presentation Summary: To many to specify Speaker Cost: Expenses + small donation ($100) to the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, University of Guelph.
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