Animal Welfare Science, Ethics & Law

Career Prospects

You will gain core skills and knowledge across a wide range of subjects that will enhance your selection chances for competitive PhD programmes. In addition to academic options, career opportunities include roles in zoos, government agencies, officers of animal welfare, protection, or wildlife crime, veterinary nursing and aquaculture.

We have many links with animal welfare-related organisations through them coming to us to teach their expertise on our programme and the class going to visit their organisation to obtain a first-hand view of what working is like at these organisations. Many of them also provide the students with opportunities to carry out their independent research project within their company. Students will also be able to capitalise on the strong ties between the veterinarians and ecologists at the IBAHCM. This allows us to directly link fundamental and applied research and offers unique opportunities to provide training that spans both theory and praxis.

We have currently the following partners involved:

• Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Scottish SPCA)
• Highland Wildlife Park, Kingussie
• BlairDrummondSafari Park
• ChesterZoo
• The Aspinall Foundation (Howletts & Port Lympne)
• National Museum Scotland