Role overview
- The Feline Welfare Research Team are a small but growing team of six scientists, who sit within the wider Cat Welfare department. The team supports the organisation in improving our understanding of feline welfare both on a population and individual basis across a range of disciplines including epidemiology, demography and welfare assessment.
- The team are responsible for providing the charity with scientific expertise. They undertake and facilitate ethically sound domestic cat welfare research of high scientific rigour, ensuring Cats Protection resources are focused on projects that will bring greatest benefit to the charities research priorities and consequently have the greatest long-term impact on domestic cat welfare.
What we’re looking for in our Research Scientist – Epidemiology:
- previously undertaken epidemiological, clinical, veterinary and/or animal welfare studies including first author publications
- PhD (i.e. viva completed and all corrections approved) in veterinary medicine, biological science, biostatistics, animal welfare, epidemiology or a related subject
- experience working with statistics
- committed to animal welfare
- interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills
What you'll work on
- lead and support epidemiological research on domestic cat population related projects both internally in Cats Protection and in collaboration with academics and other organisations
- increase the knowledge and data on the health, disease dynamics, risk factors, and/or welfare issues in various cat populations
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