Research output per year
Research output per year
B.Sc., Ph.D.(Wales)
BS40 5DU
My research addresses fundamental questions of animal behaviour and cognition as they relate to animal welfare and health. I am interested in why domestic animals do what they do, and what implications this has for their welfare, health and management.
Current projects are on detectable behavioural changes during subclinical inflammation and on propensity to play as a welfare indicator.
Research Keywords
Research funders
BBSRC, INNOVATE, EU, Defra, John Oldacre Foundation, RSPCA
Current Research Collaborators (alphabetical)
Dorit Albertsen MRCVS MSc - natural weaning approaches in beef suckler herds
Prof Andrew Dowsey - AI for detection social behaviour change with subclinical disease in cows; AI for dairy cow welfare assessment
Prof Rafael Freire, Charles Sturt University - play in parrot populations
Dr Daniel Enriquez Hidalgo - dairy cow welfare assessment
Dr Ben Lecorps - propensity to play as a welfare indicator in cows
Prof Mike Mendl - welfare indicators
Prof Siobhan Mullan, University College Dublin - new farmed species decision frameworks; dairy cow welfare assessment
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
St John Wallis, A. (Student), Mendl, M. T. (Co-Investigator), Lecorps, B. (Co-Principal Investigator) & Held, S. D. E. (Co-Principal Investigator)
19/09/23 → 19/09/27
Project: Research
Dowsey, A. (Principal Investigator), Enriquez Hidalgo, D. (Co-Investigator), Reyher, K. K. (Co-Investigator), Mendl, M. T. (Co-Investigator), Campbell, N. W. (Co-Investigator), Held, S. D. E. (Co-Investigator) & Burghardt, T. (Co-Investigator)
1/07/23 → 30/06/26
Project: Research, Parent
Fureix, C. (Co-Investigator), Mendl, M. T. (Principal Investigator), Held, S. D. E. (Co-Investigator) & Eisler, M. C. (Co-Investigator)
1/04/18 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
Held, S. D. E. (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Held, S. D. E. (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity