Advances in Pig Welfare

Irene Camerlink

Dr Irene Camerlink is a researcher in animal behaviour and welfare, with a focus on the social behaviour of pigs. She conducted her PhD at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and thereafter worked as postdoctoral researcher at SRUC (Edinburgh, UK) and Vetmeduni, Vienna (Austria) before taking a position as Associate Professor (Hab.) at the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She has over 65 peer-reviewed publications and is Editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science. She is editor of the books 'Animal Welfare in Practice: Pigs' and 'Bridging Research Disciplines to Advance Animal Welfare Science'. Throughout her career she has studied pig behaviour and welfare by combining multiple disciplines such as genetics, ethology, behavioural ecology and social sciences.

Emma M. Baxter

De Emma Baxter is Associate Professor at SRUC, Edinburgh specialising in animal behaviour and welfare, with over 20 years of research experience particularly related to integrated pig science. Her main interests include; neonatal survival, developing alternative farrowing and lactation systems, implementing uptake of high welfare systems and practices and mitigating the health and welfare impacts of selection for production traits such as hyper-prolificacy. She has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and six book chapters. She works closely with industry with all sectors of the supply chain, providing consultancy and specialising in outreach to translate research into practice.