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Details for Dr Nicola Rooney
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Nicola Rooney |
| Job title | Senior Teaching Fellow & Programme Director of Global Wildlife Health Teaching Fellow |
| Department | Bristol Veterinary School University of Bristol Farm Animal Science University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(Leic.), Ph.D.(Soton.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | animals interactions between humans and animals animal welfare dogs domestic animals play behaviour working dogs breeds of domestic dog |
| Areas of expertise | I am interested in applied aspects of the interactions between humans and animals including the follow areas: • Development of indicators of welfare and quality of life for domestic dogs; • Play behaviour as an indicator of welfare in domestic and captive animals (e.g. dogs and guinea pigs); • The effects of different types of training method upon the behaviour and welfare of domestic dogs; • Methods for assessing, and determination of factors affecting the ability of working dogs and their handlers; • Determination of optimal rearing and housing conditions for companion species; • The effects of exaggerated anatomical features upon the behaviour and welfare of breeds of domestic dog; • Dog-dog and dog-human signalling, specifially play signalling and inter-breed differences; • The effects of tourism upon the behaviour of wild animals. My research has been funded primarily by grants from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and RSPCA. |