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2. UK government’s new placement legislation is a ‘good first step’: a rapid qualitative analysis of consumer, business, enforcement and health stakeholder perspectives
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Muir, Sarah, Dhuria, Preeti, Roe, Emma, Lawrence, Wendy, Baird, Janis, and Vogel, Christina
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- 2023
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3. Researching animal research
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Davies, Gail, Greenhough, Beth, Hobson-West, Pru, Kirk, Robert G. W., Palmer, Alexandra, and Roe, Emma
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Animal experimentation ,animal ethics ,Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 ,3Rs ,research governance ,culture of care ,democratising expertise ,public engagement ,human–animal relations ,thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFU Animals and society - Abstract
Animal research is part of a complex web of relations made up of humans and animals, practices inside and outside the laboratory, formal laws and professional norms, and social imaginaries of the past and future of medicine. Researching Animal Research sets out an innovative approach for understanding and intervening in the social practices that constitute animal research. It proposes the idea of the animal research nexus to draw attention to the connections that make up animal research today and to understand how these elements have become entangled over time. The authors examine moves towards openness, inclusion, and interdisciplinarity in science, and open up questions that move debates beyond polarised pro- and anti-public positions. The book is written as a collaboration and conversation between historians, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, science and technology studies scholars, and engagement professionals, with commentaries from the arts, social sciences, and animal research sector. Through detailed qualitative analysis of regulation, care, expertise, and public engagement the book offers an unparalleled picture of the changing cultures, practices, and policies of UK animal research. By incorporating critical commentaries and examples of creative practices, it also seeks to animate and potentially transform the animal research nexus that it describes. As the social imaginaries and regulations around animal research continue to change in the UK and beyond, this book is a vital interdisciplinary contribution to the search for new ways to conduct and research animal research today.
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- 2024
4. Correction: Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems
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Morris, Carol, Kaljonen, Minna, Aavik, Kadri, Balázs, Bálint, Cole, Matthew, Coles, Ben, Efstathiou, Sophia, Fallon, Tracey, Foden, Mike, Giraud, Eva Haifa, Goodman, Mike, Kershaw, Eleanor Hadley, Helliwell, Richard, Hobson-West, Pru, Häyry, Matti, Jallinoja, Piia, Jones, Mat, Kaarlenkaski, Taija, Laihonen, Maarit, Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Anu, Kupsala, Saara, Lonkila, Annika, Martens, Lydia, McGlacken, Renelle, Mylan, Josephine, Niva, Mari, Roe, Emma, Twine, Richard, Vinnari, Markus, and White, Richard
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- 2022
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5. Amphibious ethics and speculative immersions: laboratory aquariums as a site for developing a more inclusive animal geography.
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Greenhough, Beth, Roe, Emma, and Message, Reuben
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AQUARIUMS , *ANIMAL welfare , *IDENTIFICATION of animals , *GEOGRAPHY , *WATER quality , *LABORATORIES - Abstract
Human capacity to sense and respond to the suffering of non-human animals is key to animal care and welfare. Intuitively these modes of relating seem best suited to interactions between humans and warm-blooded mammals who share human-like facial features and characteristics. Animal geographers and those working in animal welfare have noted the challenges that humans face in learning to care about fishes, and how this leads to welfare guidelines and regulations which are poorly suited to aquatic species. This paper draws on interviews with laboratory aquarists and biomedical researchers to explore how they have learnt to sense and respond to the needs of fishes in the laboratory. We offer two key observations. Firstly, despite significant bodily differences, humans find ways to empathise with fishes. Secondly, whilst observations of bodies and behaviours predominate in laboratory mammal welfare assessments, when working with fishes water quality serves as an important proxy for species health. We conclude that the laboratory aquarium signifies methodological and conceptual limits in contemporary animal geographies. We further argue that these barriers should be understood as cultural, and – as we demonstrate – that there is consequently scope and capacity to reach beyond them by engaging in amphibious ethics and speculative immersions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity
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Peres, Sara and Roe, Emma
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- 2022
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7. Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems
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Morris, Carol, Kaljonen, Minna, Aavik, Kadri, Balázs, Bálint, Cole, Matthew, Coles, Ben, Efstathiou, Sophia, Fallon, Tracey, Foden, Mike, Giraud, Eva Haifa, Goodman, Mike, Kershaw, Eleanor Hadley, Helliwell, Richard, Hobson-West, Pru, Häyry, Matti, Jallinoja, Piia, Jones, Mat, Kaarlenkaski, Taija, Laihonen, Maarit, Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Anu, Kupsala, Saara, Lonkila, Annika, Martens, Lydia, McGlacken, Renelle, Mylan, Josephine, Niva, Mari, Roe, Emma, Twine, Richard, Vinnari, Markus, and White, Richard
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- 2021
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8. Exploring the Role of Animal Technologists in Implementing the 3Rs : An Ethnographic Investigation of the UK University Sector
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Greenhough, Beth and Roe, Emma
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- 2018
9. Becoming ecological citizens : connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices
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Roe, Emma and Buser, Michael
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- 2016
10. Things becoming food : practices of organic food consumers
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Roe, Emma Jane
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- 2002
11. Towards Aeolian Landscapes:: diversifying learning from Covid-times to support cleaning the air within more-than-human worlds
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Roe, Emma, Veal, Charlotte, Hurley, Paul, and Wilks, Sandra
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The Covid-19 pandemic has increased our attention to the air. When the crisis begun public health leaders did not begin with thinking about the air, as suggested to the geography discipline by aerographers Jackson and Fannin (2011). Instead they begun with raising anxieties about what we touched – advising an increase in hand-washing in Feb 2020. Indeed, that is where we had begun in developing our expertise and interest in infection prevention and microbial aesthetics, and this still seemed valuable as we put our research proposal together in July 2020 for the Covid-19 emergency call. However, it became quickly apparent that the science was suggesting we had reasons to be anxious about the air we breathed, the air could be infectious, and to manage Covid infection required air management.
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- 2022
12. Modifying and commodifying farm animal welfare: The economisation of layer chickens
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Buller, Henry and Roe, Emma
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- 2014
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13. Awareness and Use of Canine Quality of Life Assessment Tools in UK Veterinary Practice.
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Roberts, Claire, Blackwell, Emily J., Roe, Emma, Murrell, Joanna C., and Mullan, Siobhan
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VETERINARIANS ,QUALITY of life ,VETERINARY nursing ,AWARENESS ,INTERNET surveys - Abstract
Simple Summary: Assessing the quality of life (QOL) in dogs is difficult but formal assessment tools exist, often in the form of owner-completed questionnaires. Use of these tools in veterinary practice has been recommended by various veterinary associations. This study investigated current awareness and use of canine QOL assessment tools in veterinary practice in the UK. An online survey was completed by 90 veterinary surgeons and 20 veterinary nurses. One third were aware of the existence of canine QOL assessment tools, but less than four percent were using one in practice. Most vets and nurses were willing to use one as a tool, but reported that lack of time and potential resistance from owners were barriers to use. Results suggest that QOL assessment tools developed by researchers are not well distributed to veterinary professionals, and that several barriers inhibit their use. The use of formal canine quality of life (QOL) assessment tools in veterinary practice has been recommended. An online survey investigated awareness, use and barriers to use of these tools in the UK. An anonymous 24-question survey was advertised through veterinary groups and social media. Ninety veterinary surgeons and twenty veterinary nurses responded. Thirty-two respondents (29.1%) were aware of the existence of formal canine QOL assessment tools. Of the three tools listed, current use was less than four per cent. No statistically significant influence of respondent age, role (veterinary surgeon or nurse) or possession of additional qualifications was found on the awareness of QOL tools (p > 0.05). Over half of respondents (55.5%) would 'certainly' or 'probably' be willing to use a QOL assessment tool. The main barrier to use was lack of time. Other barriers included a perceived resistance from owners. Although current use and awareness of canine QOL assessment tools in UK veterinary practice is low, veterinary professionals appear willing to use the tools within their daily practice. This discrepancy implies that QOL assessment tools are not well disseminated to veterinary surgeons and nurses in practice and that various barriers inhibit their use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.
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Anderson, Ben, Awal, Akanksha, Cockayne, Daniel, Greenhough, Beth, Linz, Jess, Mazumdar, Anurag, Nassar, Aya, Pettit, Harry, Roe, Emma J., Ruez, Derek, Salas Landa, Mónica, Secor, Anna, and Williams, Aelwyn
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Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of 'cruel optimism'. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an 'object' holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustaining, damaging and flourishing blur, sometimes collapsing entirely. By holding together opposites the concept exemplifies and performs the centrality of ambivalence to Berlant's thought, as well as their orientation to overdetermination and incoherence. Geographers and others have found in the concept a way of understanding the intersection between affective and political economies in the crisis‐present following the 2008 financial crisis. Together with Berlant's linked concepts such as 'crisis ordinariness' and 'impasse', cruel optimism has offered a way of understanding why detachment can be so difficult and how damaging conditions endure. Contributors begin from these starting points, amplifying the concept's promise: a new way of researching and writing about the reproduction of ordinary damage and harm. By writing from diverse encounters with Berlant's work, they move the concept in multiple directions, juxtaposing it with other optimisms across a variety of empirical scenes and locations. The result is a repository of what cruel optimism, and Berlant's mode of thinking‐feeling more broadly, offer geographers and others. In Part Two of Encountering Berlant, contributors engage with the promise of Lauren Berlant's most influential concept – 'cruel optimism'. By writing from multiple locations and empirical scenes, they find in the concept a new way of understanding the reproduction of everyday harms and damages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. Broadening the Veterinary Consultation: Dog Owners Want to Talk about More than Physical Health.
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Hale, Helena, Blackwell, Emily, Roberts, Claire, Roe, Emma, and Mullan, Siobhan
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DOG owners ,DOGS ,WELL-being ,THEMATIC analysis ,QUALITY of life ,SEMI-structured interviews - Abstract
Simple Summary: Formal tools are available to aid veterinary assessment of canine quality of life. However, they are rarely applied in practice, and previous research suggests a veterinary perception of owner resistance to their use. Through an online questionnaire, we found that almost all UK dog owners (95.8%) were comfortable discussing their dogs' quality of life with their vets, yet only a third of owners (32%) reported this topic to have been raised by their vets. Furthermore, the majority of owners (70.8%) were interested in accessing tools to assess their dog's quality of life, but very few had experienced any form of formal health or well-being assessment tool (4.4%) with their vets. A subset of owners was interviewed about their experiences with such tools, and three main themes were generated from their feedback: 'Use of assessment tools supports client-vet relationship and empowers owners', 'owners want to talk about holistic dog care', and 'owner feelings on the wider application of assessment tools'. Overarching findings suggest that owners want to discuss QOL and are interested in using formal assessment tools. Indeed, the uptake of tools appears to be valuable in improving the vet-client relationship and owner confidence in the treatment of their dogs. Few veterinary professionals use formal quality of life (QOL) assessment tools despite their recommendation from veterinary governing bodies to enable holistic welfare assessments and target welfare improvement strategies. Perceived barriers include resistance from owners, and this study aimed to elucidate understanding of dog owner engagement with conversations and tools relating to QOL. An online survey that investigated owner experience, comfort, and opinions about vet-client discussions on topics connected to canine health and well-being, including QOL, was completed by 410 owners. Almost all owners (95.8%) were reportedly comfortable discussing QOL, yet only 32% reported their vets had addressed it. A high proportion of owners (70.8%) expressed interest in assessment tools, but only 4.4% had experienced one, none of which were QOL tools per se. Semi-structured interviews of a sub-set of four owners provided a more in-depth examination of their experience of a health and well-being assessment tool. Thematic analysis generated three themes: 'Use of assessment tools supports client-vet relationship and empowers owners', 'Owners want to talk about holistic dog care', and 'Owner feelings on the wider application of assessment tools'. Overall, our findings suggest that owners want to broaden the veterinary consultation conversation to discuss QOL and are interested in using tools, and therefore veterinary perceptions of owner-related barriers to tool application appear unfounded. Indeed, tool uptake appears to improve the vet-client relationship and boost owner confidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. A good life? A good death? Reconciling care and harm in animal research.
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Roe, Emma and Greenhough, Beth
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LABORATORY animals , *HUMAN-animal relationships , *ETHNOLOGY research , *LONGITUDINAL method , *RESEARCH protocols , *ANIMAL health technicians , *ANIMAL welfare , *ZOOLOGY - Abstract
Laboratory animal science represents a challenging and controversial form of human-animal relations because its practice involves the deliberate and inadvertent harming and killing of animals. Consequently, animal research has formed the focus of intense ethical concern and regulation within the UK, in order to minimize the suffering and pain experienced by those animals whose living bodies model human diseases amongst other things. This paper draws on longitudinal ethnographic research and in-depth interviews undertaken with junior laboratory animal technicians (ATs) in UK universities between 2013 and 2015, plus insights from interviews with key stakeholders in laboratory animal welfare. In our analysis, we examine four key dimensions of care work in laboratory animal research: (i) the specific skills and sensitivities required; (ii) the role of previous experiences of animal care; (iii) the influence of institutional and affective environments and (iv) experiences of killing. We propose that different notions of care are enacted alongside, not only permitted levels of harm inflicted on research animals following research protocols, but also harms to ATs in the processes of caring and killing animals. Concluding, we argue for greater articulation of the coexistence of care and harms across debates in geography about care and human-animal relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops.
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Hurley, Paul and Roe, Emma
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MASCULINITY , *ACTION research , *DIETARY proteins , *ADULT education workshops - Abstract
Whilst there is research around men and masculinities as they relate to practices of caring in the ecological crisis, less is written about methodologies that can address intersectional challenges, and ways of engagement that can support behaviour change. A process-based workshop methodology is discussed for researching the male-gendered and material performances of environmental caring related to personal food protein consumption practices. It works creatively to address relational inequalities in status both between different masculine positionalities and different food proteins. It contributes to more-than-human participatory methodologies by exploring male-gender – food protein relations, via positioning and inviting practical-engagement with foodstuff as a process for destabilising social and cultural hierarchies attached to thinking about, as well as preparing, cooking and eating, different food proteins. We argue that novel research findings can emerge around individual, collective and community responses to the ecological crisis through the careful methodological attention to masculine inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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18. Non-elite Environmentalisms in a Global Context: Olderkesi and Narok, Kenya: Report on Fieldwork and Stakeholder Engagement Workshop, October 2019
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Hurley, Paul, Oloo, Francis, Weeks, Sospeter, Roe, Emma, and Olang, Luke
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We are in a moment of profound environmental change, which presents challenges at local (water and food security), regional (land security) and global scales (climate change). Rural parts of Kenya have undergone substantial changes in recent years. Water resources and communities are under pressure from agriculture, industry and land management challenges like conservation, deforestation and soil degradation. Institution-led development and environmental efforts - whether addressing food security, nutrition, conservation or climate change adaptation - can sometimes compete or run counter to each other.With funding from the University of Southampton and a partnership with the Technical University of Kenya, an interdisciplinary research team came together to think about these institution-led (elite) development efforts and how they interact with the realities of (non-elite) communities in areas like Olderkesi in Narok County, Kenya. This short project will enable us to scope for a larger proposal next year that will bring together different partners and stakeholders. The team is made up of Dr. Emma Roe, Dr. Luke Olang’, Dr. Francis Oloo, Dr. Paul Hurley and Sospeter Wekesa, who bring together experience and knowledge across university and non-university settings.The team undertook two days of visiting communities and projects in the Olderkesi area, and held a workshop in Narok town with stakeholders from communities, government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). We say ‘environmentalisms’ in the plural because it isn’t one single thing, and we wanted to find out what ‘non-elite environmentalisms’ might be in this local context. They might be what communities are doing for themselves, from traditional indigenous ways of living or from newer innovations responding to environmental and social change. They might be things that people are doing within their own family or what they are doing as a wider community.
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- 2019
19. Exploring the Role of Animal Technologists in Implementing the 3Rs
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Greenhough, Beth and Roe, Emma
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power ,governance ,expertise ,Articles ,politics ,ethics ,intervention ,engagement - Abstract
The biomedical industry relies on the skills of animal technologists (ATs) to put laboratory animal welfare into practice. This is the first study to explore how this is achieved in relation to their participation in implementing refinement and reduction, two of the three key guiding ethical principles--the "3Rs"--of what is deemed to be humane animal experimentation. The interpretative approach contributes to emerging work within the social sciences and humanities exploring care and ethics in practice. Based on qualitative analysis of participant observation within animal research facilities in UK universities, in-depth interviews with ATs, facility managers, and other stakeholders, and analysis of regulatory guidelines, we draw a contrast between the minimum required of ATs by law and how their care work not only meets but often exceeds these requirements. We outline how ATs constitute a key source of innovation and insight into the refinement of animal care and the reduction of animal use, hitherto not formally acknowledged. Exploring AT care work as an example of ethics in practice makes an original contribution to broader debates within health care and animal welfare about how technology, regulation, and behavior can foster and sustain a "culture of care".
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- 2017
20. To change or not to change? Veterinarian and farmer perception of relational factors influencing the enactment of veterinary advice on UK dairy farms
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Bard, Alison, Main, David, Roe, Emma, Haas, Anne, Whay, Helen R., and Reyher, Kristen K.
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In-depth interviews with veterinarians and farmers exploring on-farm change suggest enactment of veterinary advice requires more than accuracy of advisory content. A relational context of trust, shared veterinarian-farmer understanding and meaningful interpretation of advice at a local (farmer) level is critical to promote a culture of change. Veterinarians concerned about advisory engagement should focus on eliciting and integrating farmer priorities, motivations and goals. This collaborative communication can encourage selection of appropriate, efficacious and timely veterinary expertise, leading to better integration and adoption of advice on farm.
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- 2019
21. Attuning to laboratory animals and telling stories: learning animal geography skills from animal technologists
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Greenhough, Beth and Roe, Emma
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Posthumanism has challenged the social sciences and humanities to rethink anthopocentricism within the cultures and societies they study and to take account of more-than-human agencies and perspectives. This poses key methodological challenges, including a tendency for animal geographies to focus very much on the human side of human–animal relations and to fail to acknowledge animals as embodied, lively, articulate political subjects. In this paper, we draw on recent ethnographic work, observing and participating in the care of research animals and interviewing the animal technologists, to contribute to the understandings of life within the animal house. In so doing, the paper makes three key arguments. Firstly, that studying how animal technologists perform everyday care and make sense of their relationships with animals offers useful insights into the specific skills, expertise and relationships required in order to study human–animal relations. Secondly, that animal technologists are keenly aware of the contested moralities which emerge in animal research environments and can offer an important position from which to understand this. Thirdly, that storytelling (exemplified by the stories told by animal technologists) is a useful resource for animal geographers to engage with complexity in human–animal relations.
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- 2019
22. Corporate food retailers, meat supply chains, and the responsibilities of tackling antimicrobial resistance: Stakeholder report 2018
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Hocknell, Suzanne, Hughes, Alex, Roe, Emma, Keevil, Bill, Wrigley, Neil, and Lowe, Michelle
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This report provides the key findings and recommendations of a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Cross Council Initiative on ‘Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)’. Our project is a Pump Priming study funded as part of Theme 4: ‘Tackling AMR beyond the Healthcare Setting’. The aim of the project is to address the responsibility of retailers in tackling the AMR challenge in the context of their chicken and pork supply chains, and to investigate this evolving role and how it might be shaped in the future, both in the UK and also extending to the global scale. This research is significant in light of the O’Neill (2016) report on Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally, the Government Response to the Review of Antimicrobial Resistance (HM Government, 2016) and subsequent roles played by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in taking forward their recommendations regarding the setting of targets for the reduction of antibiotic use, support for antimicrobial stewardship in the food system and the development of codes and standards for addressing AMR in the food system at both national and global levels. The O’Neill Report (2016: 29) calls for “producers, retailers and regulators to agree standards for ‘responsible use’. These standards could then be developed and implemented as an internationally recognised label, or used by existing certification bodies.”
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- 2018
23. Food supply chains and the antimicrobial resistance challenge: On the framing, accomplishments and limitations of corporate responsibility.
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Hughes, Alex, Roe, Emma, and Hocknell, Suzanne
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FOOD supply , *SUPPLY chains , *DRUG resistance in microorganisms , *SOCIAL responsibility of business , *VALUE chains - Abstract
This paper presents a critique of supply chain responses to a particular global wicked problem – antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It evaluates the understanding of AMR (and drug-resistant infections) as a food system challenge and critically explores how responsibility for addressing it is framed and implemented. We place the spotlight on the AMR strategies applied in UK retailers' domestic poultry and pork supply chains. This provides a timely analysis of corporate engagement with AMR in light of the 2016 O'Neill report on Tackling Drug Resistant Infections Globally, which positioned supermarket chains, processors, and regulators as holding key responsibilities. Research included interviews with retailers, industry bodies, policy makers, farmers, processors, consultants and campaigners. We evaluate how strategy for tackling AMR in the food system is focused on antimicrobial stewardship, particularly targets for reducing antibiotic use in domestic food production. The global value chain notion of multipolar governance, where influence derives from multiple nodes both inside and outside the supply chain, is blended with more-than-human assemblage perspectives to capture the implementation of targets. This conceptual fusion grasps how supply chain responsibility and influence works through both a distributed group of stakeholders and the ecological complexity of the AMR challenge. The paper demonstrates in turn: how the targets for reducing antibiotic use in domestic meat production represent a particular and narrowly defined strategic focus; how those targets have been met through distributed agency in the UK supply chain; and the geographical and biological limitations of the targets in tackling AMR as a wicked problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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24. Animal research nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health and animal welfare.
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Davies, Gail, Gorman, Richard, Greenhough, Beth, Hobson-West, Pru, Kirk, Robert G. W., Message, Reuben, Myelnikov, Dmitriy, Palmer, Alexandra, Roe, Emma, Ashall, Vanessa, Crudgington, Bentley, McGlacken, Renelle, Peres, Sara, and Skidmore, Tess
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LABORATORY animals ,ANIMAL welfare ,ANIMAL health ,EXPERIMENTAL medicine ,HUMAN-animal relationships ,SOCIAL science research ,ANIMAL specialists ,INTERGROUP communication - Published
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25. Introduction:More-than-human participatory research: contexts, challenges, possibilities
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Bastian, Michelle, Jones, Owain, Moore, Niamh, Roe, Emma, Bastian, Michelle, Jones, Owain, Moore, Niamh, and Row, Emma
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- 2016
26. A semi-structured questionnaire survey of laboratory animal rehoming practice across 41 UK animal research facilities.
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Skidmore, Tess and Roe, Emma
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LABORATORY animals , *ZOOLOGICAL surveys , *SURVEYS , *LABORATORY rodents , *ANIMAL experimentation , *ANIMALS - Abstract
If a laboratory animal survives an experiment without lasting compromised welfare, its future must be negotiated. Rehoming may be a consideration. This paper reports on research findings that provide an indication of the uptake of animal rehoming by UK facilities and the associated moral, ethical, practical and regulatory considerations that inform decisions to rehome or not. This research addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature to understand both the numbers, and types of animals rehomed from UK research facilities, as well as the main motivations for engaging in the practice, and the barriers for those facilities not currently rehoming. From the ~160 UK research facilities in the UK, 41 facilities completed the questionnaire, giving a response rate of approximately 25%. Results suggest rehoming occurs routinely, yet the numbers are small; just 2322 animals are known to have been rehomed between 2015–2017. At least 1 in 10 facilities are rehoming. There exists a clear preference for the rehoming of some species (mainly cats, dogs and horses) over others (rodents, agricultural animals and primates). Indeed, although 94.15% of species kept in laboratories are rodents, they make up under a fifth (19.14%) of all animals known to be rehomed between 2015–2017. The primary motivation for rehoming is to boost staff morale and promote a positive ethical profile for the facility. Barriers include concern for the animal's welfare following rehoming, high scientific demand for animals that leaves few to be rehomed, and, finally, certain animals (mainly those genetically modified) are simply unsuited to rehoming. The findings of this research will support facilities choosing to rehome, as well as those that are not currently engaging in the practice. By promoting the practice, the benefits to rehoming in terms of improving laboratory animal's quality of life, helping facility staff to overcome the moral stress of killing, and addressing public concern regarding the fate of laboratory animals, can be attained. It is only once an understanding of rehoming from the perspective of UK research facilities has been ascertained, that appropriate policy and support can be provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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27. Protein Pressures: Research Findings (August 2016)
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Tricks, Tessa, Roe, Emma, Wilhelmsen, Stine, and Hurley, Paul
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RESEARCH HERITAGEProtein Pressures was a research collaboration between environmental charity Hubbub Foundation UK, and Dr Emma Roe BA Human Geography Programme Leader, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FSHS), University of Southampton. Delivery was co-ordinated with performance artist Dr Paul Hurley.AIMSThere is an overwhelming body of evidence that points to the need to diversify our protein consumption for future global food security. Protein Pressures sought to discover effective ways to talk about the culturally sensitive subject of meat consumption through an exploration of the public's understanding of and attitudes towards different sources of protein. The project continued the development of the 'becoming-ecological citizen approach' created in Foodscapes in 2013 and 2014 by social geographer Dr Emma Roe and Dr Michael Buser.
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- 2016
28. Developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal science and welfare
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Davies, Gail F., Greenhough, Beth J., Hobson-West, Pru, Kirk, Robert G. W., Applebee, Ken, Bellingan, Laura C., Berdoy, Manuel, Buller, Henry, Cassaday, Helen J., Davies, Keith, Diefenbacher, Daniela, Druglitrø, Tone, Escobar, Maria Paula, Friese, Carrie, Herrmann, Kathrin, Hinterberger, Amy, Jarrett, Wendy J., Jayne, Kimberley, Johnson, Adam M., Johnson, Elizabeth R., Konold, Timm, Leach, Matthew C., Leonelli, Sabina, Lewis, David I., Lilley, Elliot J., Longridge, Emma R., McLeod, Carmen M., Miele, Mara, Nelson, Nicole C., Ormandy, Elisabeth H., Pallett, Helen, Poort, Lonneke, Pound, Pandora, Ramsden, Edmund, Roe, Emma, Scalway, Helen, Schrader, Astrid, Scotton, Chris J., Scudamore, Cheryl L., Smith, Jane A., and Whitfield, Lucy
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Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the ‘3Rs’), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exercises in science policy, using a collaborative and deliberative approach for the identification of research priorities. Participants were recruited from across the community, invited to submit research questions and vote on their priorities. They then met at an interactive workshop in the UK, discussed all 136 questions submitted, and collectively defined the 30 most important issues for the group. The output is a collaborative future agenda for research in the humanities and social sciences on laboratory animal science and welfare. The questions indicate a demand for new research in the humanities and social sciences to inform emerging discussions and priorities on the governance and practice of laboratory animal research, including on issues around: international harmonisation, openness and public engagement, ‘cultures of care’, harm-benefit analysis and the future of the 3Rs. The process outlined below underlines the value of interdisciplinary exchange for improving communication across different research cultures and identifies ways of enhancing the effectiveness of future research at the interface between the humanities, social sciences, science and science policy.
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- 2016
29. Understanding communication on mastitis management:could Motivational Interviewing aid in the uptake of advice?
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Scrase, A, Main, David, Haase, Anne, Whay, Becky, Roe, Emma, Reyher, Kristen, and Doherty, Michael
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Objectives:Mastitis is one of the most significant causes of morbidity and mortality of the adult dairy cow (Ruegg 2011). Compliance with veterinary recommendations is critical to tackle incidence rates on farm (Green et al. 2007), yet improving uptake of advice in daily practice is a challenge (Jansen et al. 2010). Similar challenges are faced by the medical profession, who are increasingly employing an evidence-based communication methodology called Motivational Interviewing (MI) to improve public health. This research examines vet-farmer communication on disease, with the objective of establishing whether MI communication skills are currently in use.Materials and Methods:Role play sessions reflecting consultations on lameness and mastitis were recorded between cattle veterinarians (n=15) recruited from two UK practices located in South West England and an actress experienced in role play in medical and veterinary education. The actress was provided with a character and farm profile reflecting a ‘typical’ UK situation, and veterinarians were provided with a short excerpt on the disease issue/risk factors on the farm and evidence to encourage them to broach a broad topic area of change with the farmer. Consultations lasted an average of 11.2 minutes (range 7.7 to 14.9).Consultations were analysed using the MITI 4.2.1, a treatment integrity measure for clinical trials of MI. In this system, verbal interactions are firstly coded for frequencies of verbal behaviours: Giving Information, Persuading, Persuading with Permission, Questions, Reflections (simple/complex), Affirmations, Seeking Collaboration, Emphasising Autonomy and Confronting. Secondly, global scores are assigned on a five point Likert scale (from 1: low proficiency to 5: high proficiency) to characterise the entire consultation in relation to MI foci: Cultivating Change Talk, Softening Sustain Talk, Partnership and Empathy. To meet the level of ‘basic competency’ in MI, veterinarians required a mean score of 3.5 in Relational globals (Partnership, Empathy) and 3 in Technical globals (Cultivating Change Talk, Softening Sustain Talk), a Reflection to Question ratio of 1:1 and a 40% Complex Reflection percentage (of total Reflections). Coding was performed directly from audiotapes.Results: MI communication skills were recorded within these veterinary consultations, yet no veterinarian was classified at a level of overall ‘basic competency’. Verbal behaviours:Veterinarians predominantly relied on Persuasion, Questions and Giving Information in their consultation approaches. Communication behaviours inadherent with MI (Persuasion and Confrontation, n=126) far exceed total MI adherent behaviours (Affirmations, Seeking Collaboration and Emphasising Autonomy, n=15), whilst no veterinarian achieved ‘basic competency’ with regards to Question: Reflection ratio (goal: 1:2). However, Reflections were found in nine of the fifteen veterinarian-farmer interactions. Consultations approach: global scores:One veterinarian of the fifteen met the criteria for basic competence in MI with a mean score of 3.5 in Relational globals (Partnership, Empathy) and a mean score of 3 in Technical globals (Cultivating Change Talk, Softening Sustain Talk). However, mean global scores overall were low - Relational score = 1.6 (range 1-3.5) and Technical score = 1.7 (range 1- 3). Conclusions:These data suggest that current veterinary communication practices do not employ MI methods overall. However, some MI skill naturally occurs in practicing cattle veterinarians, indicating the feasibility of this methodology’s utilisation within this context. Further training in this methodology could enhance the advisory process for both veterinarians and farmers, thereby improving the uptake of advice and reducing the incidence of mastitis rates, amongst other management challenges, on UK dairy farms.
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- 2016
30. Material connectivity, the immaterial and the aesthetic of eating practices: an argument for how genetically modified foodstuff becomes inedible
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Roe, Emma J.
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Oils and fats, Edible -- Usage ,Food habits -- Methods ,Genetically engineered foods -- Research ,Food -- Biotechnology ,Food -- Research ,Environmental issues - Abstract
In view of the industrialization of food production and genetically modified foods, rising consumer concern over edible food, is examined. The need to express significance of a material connective aesthetic within eating practices is presented.
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- 2006
31. Guest editorial: towards a geography of bodily biotechnologies
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Greenhough, Beth and Roe, Emma
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Biotechnology -- Usage ,Interpersonal relations -- Analysis ,Environmental issues - Abstract
The significance of biotechnology, which forms a means for understanding and managing human relationship with nonhuman world of xenotransplantation and genetically modified food, is discussed.
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- 2006
32. Attuning to laboratory animals and telling stories: Learning animal geography research skills from animal technologists.
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Greenhough, Beth and Roe, Emma
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POSTHUMANISM , *SOCIAL sciences , *CULTURE , *ANIMAL health , *VETERINARY medicine - Abstract
Posthumanism has challenged the social sciences and humanities to rethink anthopocentricism within the cultures and societies they study and to take account of more-than-human agencies and perspectives. This poses key methodological challenges, including a tendency for animal geographies to focus very much on the human side of human–animal relations and to fail to acknowledge animals as embodied, lively, articulate political subjects. In this paper, we draw on recent ethnographic work, observing and participating in the care of research animals and interviewing the animal technologists, to contribute to the understandings of life within the animal house. In so doing, the paper makes three key arguments. Firstly, that studying how animal technologists perform everyday care and make sense of their relationships with animals offers useful insights into the specific skills, expertise and relationships required in order to study human–animal relations. Secondly, that animal technologists are keenly aware of the contested moralities which emerge in animal research environments and can offer an important position from which to understand this. Thirdly, that storytelling (exemplified by the stories told by animal technologists) is a useful resource for animal geographers to engage with complexity in human–animal relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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33. Fundamentals of supply chain management and proccess improvement tarleton state university, texas
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Martínez Roe, Emma Rebecca
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Cadena de suministros ,Mejora de procesos ,INGENIERÍA DE ORGANIZACIÓN (UPV) ,Consulta en la Biblioteca ETSI Industriales ,Ingeniero Industrial-Enginyer Industrial - Abstract
Consulta en la Biblioteca ETSI Industriales (Riunet), [EN] This paper starts with an overview of supply chain management concepts. Then, the following section addresses the need to align supply chain strategy with business strategy as a competitive advantage. The third section points out some of the considerations to bear in mind when designing the supply chain, as well as some continuous improvement considerations. A real case in the company PECOFacet shows how opportunities for improvement can be identified by doing a Value Stream Map. The chapter after that focuses on market segmentation and the importance of effectively reaching the customer. This leads to the next chapter where customer relationship management concepts are brought up. Finally, the last section strives to go through the supply management concepts of total cost of ownership, the buy-make analysis, the development of supply plans, and the relevance of supplier relationship management.
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- 2014
34. Connected Communities Foodscapes
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Buser, Michael, Roe, Emma, Dinnie, Liz, Hall, Roz, Mean, Melissa, and Hurley, Paul
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FOODSCAPES was an AHRC Connected Communities project (2013) that explored the use of art as a way of opening up discussion about food. Participants in the project included Knowle West Media Centre, The Matthew Tree Project (TMTP), the Edible Landscapes Movement (ELM), UWE Bristol, University of Southampton, the James Hutton Institute and Paul Hurley (artist-in-residence). Together, we explored how arts intervention and cultural engagement can help address food, food poverty, and sustainable communities. As co-designed action research, the project also examined how arts intervention can enhance interchange between community organisations and research institutions. Throughout Foodscapes there was an attempt to integrate the research questions, arts programming and evaluative activities into the actual process of the work, so that these activities could become entwined and, it is hoped, more meaningful for all involved.
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- 2014
35. Foodscapes: bank, bake, grow, eat, talk, share. Executive summary
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Buser, MIchael, Roe, Emma, and Dinnie, Elizabeth
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Foodscapes was an AHRC Connected Communities project in 2013 that explored the use of art as a way of opening up discussion about food, food poverty and local food production and distribution. Participants in the project included Knowle West Media Centre, The Matthew Tree Project (TMTP), the Edible Landscapes Movement (ELM), UWE Bristol, University of Southampton, the James Hutton Institute and Paul Hurley (artist-in-residence). Together, we explored how arts intervention and cultural engagement can help address social and economic exclusion, food poverty, and sustainability. As co-designed action research, the project also examined how arts intervention can enhance interchange between community organisations and research institutions.
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- 2014
36. Creative material practices as response-abilities: entanglings with food insecurities and vulnerable subjectivities
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Buser, Michael and Roe, Emma
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- 2013
37. Foodscapes: bake, grow, share, eat
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Buser, MIchael, Roe, Emma, and Dinnie, Elizabeth
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Foodscapes Exhibition Project Information & Background Ideas
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- 2013
38. Scaffold-hopping with zwitterionic CCR3 antagonists: Identification and optimisation of a series with good potency and pharmacokinetics leading to the discovery of AZ12436092
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Bahl, Ash, Barton, Patrick, Bowers, Keith, Caffrey, Moya V., Denton, Rebecca, Gilmour, Peter, Hawley, Shaun, Linannen, Tero, Luckhurst, Christopher A., Mochel, Tobias, Perry, Matthew W.D., Riley, Robert J., Roe, Emma, Springthorpe, Brian, Stein, Linda, and Webborn, Peter
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- 2012
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39. Current strategies for animal welfare in the food service sector in Norway, UK and Italy
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Higgin, Marc, Roe, Emma, Kjaernes, Unni, Bock, Bettina, Higgin, Marc, and Roex, Joek
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Food service is a vast and diverse market within Europe, and the world, as such it is notoriously hard to define. The definition used here has been the commercial provision of prepared food and/or drink to people who are away from their homes, for consumption shortly after purchase. The structure of the food service markets for Norway, Italy and Sweden is outlined in Chapter 26. This includes in-depth account of the current and potential market for welfare-friendlier foodstuffs in these countries. Chapter 27 describes a canteen-based experiment of offering a welfare-friendlier food product to consumers. Chapter 28 is a synthesis of the research findingss and some concluding points
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- 2009
40. European meat and dairy retail distribution and supply networks: a comparative study of the current and potential markets for welfare-friendly foodstuffs in six European countries
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Roe, Emma, Higgin, Marc, Kjaernes, Unni, Bock, Bettina, Miele, Mara, and Roex, Joek
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Part II outlines generic findings about retailing practices for welfare-friendly products. Chapter 10 identifies the importance of retail brands in understanding how the market for welfare-friendly products currently operates through discussing the practices of brand management and how these relate to farm animal welfare. Two major dynamics are identified:- brand protection and assuring for minimum standards of farm animal welfare within the supply network;- positive use of farm animal welfare as a way to differentiate both product ranges and individual products.There is an overview of commercial relations between retailers, manufacturers, farmers/farmer cooperatives and NGOs/industry bodies. Chapter 11 is an overview of the particularities of the market for each of the product sectors - dairy, beef, egg, pork and chicken. Together, chapters 10 and 11 present important actors in the retail distribution and supply networks through examining both the commercial relations between different actors and how there are distinctive differences between product sectors. Chapter 12 presents summaries of the market for each study country, covering: regulation and the general interest in farm animal welfare, how the market for animal welfare-friendly products operates across individual product sectors, and what is the potential for growth in the welfare-friendly market. It explains how countries create an important cultural background for understanding why the market operates differently from country to country. Chapter 13 is a summary of major pan-European bodies and their role in regulation, and wider bodies of representation. It considers how Europe as a trading block is responding to animal welfare.Chapter 14 looks at the impact of global trade on the commercial practices presented in Chapter 10. Here we focus on the Eastern European market, pan-European buying groups, competition between EU and rest of the world, standards and labelling, global politics and health.
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- 2008
41. Marketing farm animal welfare factsheet
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Roe, Emma J. and Buller, Henry
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For a long time legislation has been the commonest way of protecting farm animal welfare but more recently growing consumer demand both for quality food products and more ethical food production has meant that farm animal welfare is emerging as an area of potential added value for producers, retailers and other food chain actors. To support chain actors in their efforts, Welfare Quality® has been investigating the impact of these new consumer demands, and the current industry responses to them. Research carried out by Welfare Quality® in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, France and Italy looked at how animal welfare is mobilised from farm to supermarket shelf as a means of both achieving increased product value and broader ethical branding.
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42. Analysis of the retail survey of products that carry welfare- claims and of non-retailer led assurance schemes whose logos accompany welfare-claims
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Roe, Emma. J and Marsden, T.
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This report serves two aims. Firstly, this report contains analysis of the retail audit (sub-deliverable 1.2.2.1) of welfare-friendly food products in the 6 study countries. The report gives the results of an emerging comparative analysis of the ‘market’ for welfare-friendly food products in the 6 study countries. It also outlines ‘non-retailer’ led schemes1 whose products occurred in the study. In this way, an emerging picture of the actual product ranges, that make claims about welfare-friendliness, will be drawn based on fieldwork carried out from November 2004 until April 2005. Also, the report explores how the different legislative and voluntary standards on animal welfare compare across different countries and how these actively advertise their welfare-friendlier component to consumers through food packaging.
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- 2007
43. UK Market for Animal Welfare Friendly Products. Market Structure, Survey of Available Products and Quality Assurance Schemes
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Roe, Emma. J and Murdoch, Jonathan
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The publication brings together reports produced by the UK team of EU Welfare Quality research project, of the retailing work packaging 1.2 in subproject 1 during the first year of the project. Chapter 1 consists of a literature review of the construction of animal welfare in market and governmental terms in the UK. Chapter 2 describes the market structure of animal-based products in the UK which can be divided into the five product categories of beef, chicken, pork, egg and dairy. Chapter 3 reports the findings of a survey into the presence of welfare-friendly foodstuffs in the major retailers and other stores. Chapter 4 is a study of the non-retailer led labelling schemes, whose logos were found to accompany welfare-claims in the earlier retail study.
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44. The retail of welfare-friendly products: A comparative assessment of the nature of the market for welfare-friendly products in six European Countries
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Roe, Emma J., Murdoch, Jonathan, and Marsden, T.
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This paper attempts to describe the market for welfare-friendly foodstuffs within larger retailing trends in six study countries in Europe (Norway, Sweden, Italy, France, the Netherlands and the UK). This is based on the findings to date from the work carried out by the work package 1.2 whose aims are to study the current and potential market for welfare-friendly foodstuffs. The aims of the current empirical stages of work package 1.2 are focussed on – what do retailers communicate to consumers about animal welfare? How is animal welfare framed? Are welfare-claims used on their own or within broader issues of quality?
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- 2005
45. The future of veterinary communication: Partnership or persuasion? A qualitative investigation of veterinary communication in the pursuit of client behaviour change.
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Bard, Alison M., Main, David C. J., Haase, Anne M., Whay, Helen R., Roe, Emma J., and Reyher, Kristen K.
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ANIMAL communication ,BEHAVIOR modification ,ANIMAL health ,ANIMAL welfare ,ANIMAL behavior ,QUALITATIVE research - Abstract
Client behaviour change is at the heart of veterinary practice, where promoting animal health and welfare is often synonymous with engaging clients in animal management practices. In the medical realm, extensive research points to the link between practitioner communication and patient behavioural outcomes, suggesting that the veterinary industry could benefit from a deeper understanding of veterinarian communication and its effects on client motivation. Whilst extensive studies have quantified language components typical of the veterinary consultation, the literature is lacking in-depth qualitative analysis in this context. The objective of this study was to address this deficit, and offer new critical insight into veterinary communication strategies in the pursuit of client behaviour change. Role-play interactions (n = 15) between UK cattle veterinarians and an actress experienced in medical and veterinary education were recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically. Analysis revealed that, overall, veterinarians tend to communicate in a directive style (minimal eliciting of client opinion, dominating the consultation agenda, prioritising instrumental support), reflecting a paternalistic role in the consultation interaction. Given this finding, recommendations for progress in the veterinary industry are made; namely, the integration of evidence-based medical communication methodologies into clinical training. Use of these types of methodologies may facilitate the adoption of more mutualistic, relationship-centred communication in veterinary practice, supporting core psychological elements of client motivation and resultant behaviour change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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46. Animals and ambivalence, governing farm animal welfare in the European food sector
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Miele, Mara, Murdoch, Jonathan, Roe, Emma, Higgins, V., and Lawrence, G.
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That humans exploit animals, often in cruel ways, is not open to doubt. Reponsibility for exploitation and cruelty lies unambiguously on the human side of any human-animal divide. For this reason, relations between humans and animals might be described as profoundly asymmetrical (Schiktanz 2004: 2). Asymmetry emerges whenever animals are confined for human purposes, for instance in farms, zoos and homes. As Schiktanz (2004: 2) puts it, “the animal itself has usually no opportunity to force its necessities – everything depends on the good will of the human ‘owner’”. Such asymmetric relations are apparently inevitable, especially in the agricultural domain where billions of animals are raised for slaughter. In fact, farm-based asymmetry is undoubtedly widespread as the modern industrial system leads to the ever-greater intensification, industrialisation and mechanisation of animal production (Fiddes, 1990; Rifkin, 1992; Strassart and Whatmore, 2003).
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- 2005
47. Michael Carolan's Embodied Food Politics
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Goodman, Michael K., Flora, Cornelia Butler, Roe, Emma J., Johnston, Josée, Le Heron, Richard, and Carolan, Michael S.
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- 2014
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48. Experimental partnering: interpreting improvisatory habits in the research field.
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Roe, Emma and Greenhough, Beth
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RESEARCH , *METHODOLOGY , *HUMAN physiology , *HUMAN body , *HABIT - Abstract
This paper proposes that established research techniques can be developed in new directions by becoming attentive to the ways in which novel epistemological and ontological frameworks can shape the production of research knowledges. Drawing upon ideas from performance theory and science studies, and two brief fieldwork examples – archival research on the MRC’s Common Cold Unit and participant observation of the challenge of moving a herd of cattle – we argue that habits are also always to extent improvised; shaped by the capacities of human bodies to sense and respond to the nonhuman agentive world around them, including methodological habits. We propose a new term, ‘experimental partnering’ to define an interpretative approach that is attentive to how practice can illuminate the improvisatory or unstable temporary alignments that underlie some habits. ‘Experimental partnering’ is not offering a new way to access the research field, but a term to express a particular interpretative mode that draws attention to human-nonhuman relations and assemblages, fostering new apprehensions of how these more than social relations modify and interrupt the habitual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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49. Horse sense
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Roe, Emma
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- 2013
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50. Global carcass balancing.
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Roe, Emma
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MEAT quality ,FOOD habits ,HORSEMEAT ,FORENSIC sciences ,DNA - Abstract
The author expresses her thoughts on allegations about the existence of fraudulent practices in a complex international production, supply and distribution network of processed meat products. She says that there has always been a need to use up all the parts of an animal. She believes that the globalized market for food is very heterogeneous with regards to eating habits. The author suggests the need for new policies that deal with the availability of cheap manufactured meat protein products.
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- 2013
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