• Applied animal welfare
• Environmental enrichment programs
• Animal behaviour

• Development of animal care management standards and recommendations for zoo and aquarium animals.
• Investigation of effective techniques for documenting and evaluating environmental enrichment.

Essential: Understanding of multi-factor nature of animal welfare, and knowledge of associated animal welfare assessment tools. Ability to perform detailed literature reviews. Willingness to ask questions and think critically.

Desirable: Effective writing skills. Experience with zoos and aquariums, and an understanding of the issues associated with welfare assessment and implementation of enrichment at these institutions.

Completing literature reviews, and assisting in the transfer of relevant information from pre-existing sources into species-specific documents. Compiling summaries of available enrichment and welfare assessment tools.

Critical appreciation of challenges associated with animal welfare in zoos and aquariums. Understanding of applied animal care programs and their impact on animal welfare. Literature review skills.