Podcast Episodes

Animal Welfare and Decision Making

Season 4 Episode 31

In this episode of the Animal Welfare Conversation podcast, we take a break from the interviews, and will spend the next few weeks looking at the complexities of decision-making in veterinary medicin…

Published on 8 hours ago

The Impact of Human Bias on Animal Welfare

Season 4 Episode 30

Welcome to the next episode of The Animal Welfare Conversation. 

This week we meet Dr Rowena Packer, of the RVC.

Rowena is the Senior Lecturer in Companion Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science at the…

Published on 1 week ago

Prof Andrew Knight - Animal Welfare, Livestock Farming and Vegan Pet Diets

Season 4 Episode 29

Professor Andrew Knight
BVMS BSc PhD PFHEA DipECAWBM DipACAW MANZCVS FRCVS

Welcome to the next episode of the Animal Welfare Conversation. And this week we caught up with Prof Andrew Knight, animal w…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Dr Dan O'Neill - What makes a good life - part 2

Season 4 Episode 28

What makes a good life? Part 2

In this episode of the Animal Welfare Conversation, we continue the conversation with Dr Dan O’Neill of the RVC. Dan is well known in the veterinary profession for his …

Published on 3 weeks ago

Dr Dan O'Neill - What makes a good life? Part 1

Season 4 Episode 27

What makes a good life? Part 1

In this episode of the Animal Welfare Conversation, we meet Dr Dan O’Neill of the RVC. Dan is well known in the veterinary profession for his work with VetCompass and a…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Education and Animal Welfare with Dr Toby Trimble

Season 4 Episode 26

Welcome back! 

In this episode we catch up with Dr Toby Trimble, the founder of Trimble Group, a film production company, reinventing education for animal health. Listeners to the podcast will know t…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

2025 - Looking Forward

Season 4 Episode 25

After a slightly longer break than we had anticipated, I'm really happy to let everyone know that we're back!

With so much happening in the world of animal welfare it's difficult to know where to sta…

Published on 4 months ago

2024 - Reviewing the Animal Welfare Conversation

Season 3 Episode 24

It’s the end of the year, so we took the chance to review the podcast. I still can’t believe that we’ve being doing this for a year now and had the chance to talk to so many people, about the great w…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Prof Simon Girling - Reintroducing native species

Season 3 Episode 23

Welcome to the next episode of The Animal Welfare Conversation. This week we are joined by Prof Simon Girling. Simon has worked with zoological collections for the past 15 years, and has been involve…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Mike Flynn MBE - A career in animal welfare

Season 3 Episode 22

In this episode we were lucky enough to catch up, earlier this year, with Mike Flynn MBE, Chief Superintendent of the Scottish SPCA, and we caught up just before he retired, to find out more about hi…

Published on 9 months ago