Understanding Factors Affecting Working Equid Welfare: Developing Engagement and Impact

了解影响工作设备福利的因素：培养参与度和影响力

• 批准号: ES/Y007417/1
• 负责人: Emily Haddy
• 金额: $ 13.08万
• 依托单位: University of Portsmouth
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY007417%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; Factors; Affecting; Working; Equid

My research takes a holistic approach to evaluating the welfare of working horses, donkeys and mules; a group of animals that play a vital role in supporting millions of the poorest people around the world yet often suffer from poor welfare. This research takes into account the complex linkages that exist between animal welfare and both human and environmental factors in order to try and improve working equine welfare.Across my PhD studies I identified elements of the owner-animal relationship that impact equine welfare and worked alongside NGOs to both evaluate the success of welfare initiatives and recognise barriers to welfare improvement. During the Fellowship I intend to continue building on this research and conduct a study with the donkey owning community on Lamu Island in Kenya. In conjunction with local stakeholders, I will develop an arts-based initiative. This research will use a community-based participatory arts approaches to raise awareness of donkey sentience and the risk factors for poor donkey welfare within the local community. It will also enable the community to engage with the results of research in an accessible and appealing way.My aims for the Fellowship will be to develop my engagement with a range of important relevant audiences to maximise prospects for both collaboration and forward dissemination of my research findings. Alongside engaging directly with equid owning communities, through presenting and discussing my research findings with NGOs, myresults could be practically applied to increase impact at policy level through dialogues between NGOs and local governments and at ground level, through impacting the direction of future NGO welfare programming. Presenting my research within the sphere of academia will also help me to disseminate my results more widely. I aim to publish two further research papers and attend a conference where alongside presenting my work I can engage with other researchers and policymakers to develop collaborative research opportunities for the future. Time will also be spent securing onwards research funding through writing a grant proposal which will build on all of the research I have carried out to date. In this way I will continue to support and advance my future research career.Another aim of the Fellowship is to build networks to develop new avenues for collaboration and impact. I have collaborated previously with NGOs, internationally and in the UK to complete research projects and I plan to extend my network of practitioner contacts. I am especially keen to foster interdisciplinary connections between academia and NGOs. Whilst working in Lamu I would aim to build collaboration with animal welfare organisations, arts groups and community led organisations tackling the issue of plastic waste on the island. Crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries will enhance impact opportunities for research between university departments, within the NGO sector and the wider island community.

我的研究采取了一种整体的方法来评估工作马，驴和骡子的福利;一组动物在支持世界各地数百万最贫困的人中发挥着至关重要的作用，但往往遭受贫困的福利。这项研究考虑到了动物福利和人类和环境因素之间存在的复杂联系，以尝试和改善工作马的福利。在我的博士研究中，我确定了影响马福利的所有者-动物关系的要素，并与非政府组织一起评估福利举措的成功，并认识到福利改善的障碍。在奖学金期间，我打算继续这项研究的基础上，并与肯尼亚拉穆岛的驴主社区进行研究。我将与当地利益相关者一起制定一项以艺术为基础的倡议。这项研究将使用一种以社区为基础的参与性艺术方法，以提高人们对驴的感知能力和当地社区内驴福利不佳的风险因素的认识。我的目的是发展我与一系列重要的相关受众的接触，以最大限度地提高我的研究成果的合作和向前传播的前景。除了直接与马拥有社区接触，通过与非政府组织介绍和讨论我的研究结果，我的结果可以实际应用于通过非政府组织与地方政府之间的对话在政策层面和在基层增加影响，通过影响未来非政府组织福利规划的方向。在学术界展示我的研究成果也将有助于我更广泛地传播我的成果。我的目标是发表两篇进一步的研究论文，并参加一个会议，在展示我的工作的同时，我可以与其他研究人员和政策制定者合作，为未来开发合作研究的机会。时间也将花在通过写一个赠款提案，这将建立在所有的研究，我已经进行了日期，以确保今后的研究资金。通过这种方式，我将继续支持和推进我未来的研究事业。该奖学金的另一个目的是建立网络，以开发新的合作和影响途径。我以前曾与国际和英国的非政府组织合作完成研究项目，我计划扩大我的从业者联系网络。我特别热衷于促进学术界和非政府组织之间的跨学科联系。在拉穆工作期间，我的目标是与动物福利组织、艺术团体和社区组织建立合作，解决岛上的塑料废物问题。跨越传统的学科界限将增加大学各系之间、非政府组织部门和更广泛的岛屿社区内的研究产生影响的机会。