Irene Camerlink 
Bridging Research Disciplines to Advance Animal Welfare Science 
A Practical Guide

In recent years there has been a huge rise in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in animal sciences which has accelerated improvements in animal welfare.

Down to earth and practical, this book gives guidance on how cross-disciplinary research can advance animal welfare. With numerous examples and case studies, the text explains:

· the different concepts regarding cross-disciplinary research
· how to set up cross-disciplinary research projects
· how to work in cross functional teams and models for effective team working
· how different fields can impact animal welfare, including social sciences, neurosciences, genetics, behavioural ecology and technology.

The aim of the book is to help researchers and graduate animal science students to understand how to advance animal welfare through the integration of disciplines.

About the author

Dr Irene Camerlink is an ethologist researching animal behaviour and welfare, with a focus on the social behaviour of pigs. She conducted her Ph D at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and thereafter worked as postdoctoral researcher at SRUC (Edinburgh, UK) and the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Austria) before taking a position as Associate Professor at the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She is Editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, was from 2017-2021 Senior Editor for the International Society of Animal Ethology (ISAE) and is editor of the book ‘Animal Welfare in Practice: Pigs’. She was awarded the ISAE New Investigator Award in 2017 and the UFAW Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year Award in 2020. Throughout her career she has studied pig behaviour and welfare by combining multiple disciplines such as genetics, ethology, behavioural ecology and social sciences.