Sam Ward - Research-Active Staff

Sam’s research interests are based in the field of animal welfare with past research focusing on zoo animals. Recent work has included the influence of stockmanship on the behaviour of black rhinoceros and the importance of human influences on the behaviour of zoo animals.

Sam is currently carrying out research towards a PhD entitled 'Welfare and production implications of fostering methods in sheep'. 

Ward, S. & May, V. (2009) Enrichment: the Moulton way. The Enrichment Times. [online] accessed from: http://www.enrichment.org/MiniWebs/UK-Ireland/enrichment_times04.pdf

Ward, S., Liste, G., Meredith, J. (2009). The attitudes of UK sheep farmers towards fostering methods: a national survey. Proceedings of the 43rd Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology, Cairns, Australia, pp 125.

Ward, S., Melfi, V., 2004. The influence of stockmanship on the behaviour of black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). In:Macdonald, C. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium on Zoo Research, BIAZA, London, pp. 160–169.

• Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)
• International Society of Applied Ethology (ISAE)
• Universities Federation of Animal Welfare (UFAW)
• British Society of Animal Science (BSAS)
• Ambassador for the Association for British and Irish Wild Animal Keepers

Ward, S. & Melfi, V., (2009). Human influences of the behaviour of zoo housed animals. Centre for Animal Welfare and Anthrozoology, Seminars 2010, Cambridge University, UK.

Ward, S. & Melfi, V. (2005). The influence of stockmanship on the behaviour of black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Universities Federation for Animal Welfare Vacation Scholarship meeting.

Ward, S. & Melfi, V., (2004). The influence of stockmanship on the behaviour of black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) BIAZA 6th Annual zoo research symposium, 2004. Edinburgh, UK.


 

• ISAE Congress Attendance Award (2009)
• Leslie Church Research Grant (2008)
• BSAS Kenneth Blaxter Award (2008)
• UFAW Vacation Scholar (2004)
• Whitley Wildlife Conservation grant (2004)

Details to follow.