This month Nat, Heather and Fritha from The Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education and Scotland's Rural College were delighted to visit Cape Cod and the headquarters of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
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| Azzedine Downes, President and CEO of IFAW attended the workshop |
JMICAWE and IFAW have already established a strong
partnership through collaborative teaching initiatives on our online MSc in
International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law, and the development of an
interactive foundation course on animal welfare and ethics which has now been
rolled out to all IFAW staff. This course was designed to develop a consistent
level of knowledge about animal welfare science, and a common understanding of
IFAWs ethics. If you are interested in our Master's programme, more can be found here: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?cw_xml=details.php&id=788
Our recent visit to Boston built upon this successful initiative to
bring a greater depth of analysis and evaluation to IFAWs campaigns and
position statements and to emphasise the importance of a solid scientific
foundation when developing animal welfare policy and campaigns. Topics covered
included ‘evidence-based arguments and why they matter’, ‘good and bad
science’, and ‘writing effective science-based communications’.
Additionally participants had the opportunity to explore
their own personal ethics and discover the commonalities that have evolved into
a cohesive ethical stance for IFAW. Feedback from IFAW staff has been very
positive, recognising that the workshop allowed for critical analysis of IFAW’s
positions and reaffirmation of beliefs in the work done by IFAW.
We feel very priviledged to have been able to run this workshop in collaboration with IFAW and would like to thank everyone who helped to make it such a success.
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