Looking back, we have had a tremendous year working towards
improving animal welfare through education.
The team has partnered with various NGOs, Universities and Government
depts. To deliver a wide variety of workshops in a number of countries such as China,
Vietnam and India as well as closer to home in Europe and the UK. In addition we have engaged with various
animal welfare groups to develop robust measures for assessing the
effectiveness and welfare issues related to dog and cat population management,
and have worked in Bosnia, Botswana and India to deliver valuable Trap-Neuter
–Return (TNR) training and research.
Over the summer we ran what turned out to be a highly successful
MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) reaching 33500 people from 163 countries. For
those who haven’t yet had the chance to participate, we will be running the
course again in February 2015 and will be sending out details about this in the
New Year- so watch this space! (https://www.coursera.org/course/animal)
We have collaborated and worked with some wonderful organisations
s developing online courses and capacity building and our work with these will
continue into 2015 as we expand our animal welfare capacity building work.
Conferences have also featured well this last year- starting
with the 5 day conference in February held in Bangalore in collaboration with
the Commonwealth Veterinary Association Including a day on Advances in Animal
Welfare’, working with the WPA team in Asia for their key Driver programme held
in Taiwan, partnering with The Animals Asia Foundation team in Vietnam and
China on veterinary educator capacity building workshops, initiating the Kerala
Veterinary and Animal Science University’s three day workshop on developing
veterinary nursing in India and providing animal welfare education and research
contributions in conference sessions at meetings related to; horses, captive
wildlife and companion animal conferences. We have quite a number of events lined
up for next year and look forward to meeting some of you on our travels. Closer
to home here at the Vet School, we started the year with a successful
International seminar series that was very well attended by our veterinary
undergraduates in fourth and final year.
Our online and on-campus Masters Programmes continue to grow and we
welcomed many new students in the new academic year. Our Animal Welfare and Behaviour final year Elective
course proved popular as an option for
our Undergraduates, and we are running it next year with an extra week
and for a larger cohort.
We have some exciting plans for 2015 as we continue with our
animal welfare work, so please keep reading our Blog and Twitter feeds for the
latest news about our activities.
Meanwhile we would like to wish you all a very peaceful and
happy Christmas holiday period and all the best for 2015
The JMICAWE Team
Edinburgh, Scotland
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