The JMICAWE team congratulate our new PhD candidate, Lisa Qing Yang for completing her master’s degree in International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law at University of Edinburgh and receiving the prize for the highest grade in her cohort for her MSc Dissertation.
Lisa’s master’s thesis aimed to explore what the opportunities and barriers were for Chinese egg producers to improve farm animal welfare by adopting higher welfare production systems. China has been the world’s largest egg producer for decades yet most of the farms still use conventional cages for egg production. With a greater awareness of animal welfare developing in Chinese society, alternative production systems are now being considered. It was this study that interested Lisa to further pursue her PhD on the same topic, with aims to develop strategies that can facilitate Chinese egg producers to change to cage free systems.
Lisa was pleased to see the project has received positive outcome, she said:
“I believe producers are an indispensable part of the discussion of farm animal welfare improvement. I am pleased to see my thesis received a good grade. More importantly, it lays the foundation of understanding how Chinese egg producers perceive animal welfare and what challenges need to be addressed to help them improve animal welfare. I am very happy that my PhD research will continue to explore a solution-based approach. I hope the findings will support Chinese producers to make the change happen”.
We are very proud of what Lisa has achieved with regards to improving farm animal welfare in China, and look forward to see how this work progresses as part of her PhD studies with us. Well done Lisa!
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