Queen's University, Belfast

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Current Position Senior Lecturer
Telephone +44 (0)28 9097 2967
Email g.arnott@qub.ac.uk
Departments School of Biological Sciences
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Quadrat Core Themes Biodiversity, Environmental Management
Profiles

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Key Research Interests

  • Animal contest behaviour: Understanding the information-gathering and decision-making processes underlying aggressive interactions, working with a range of animal species including vertebrates and invertebrates. Additional behavioural topics being addressed include: animal cognition, personality, and lateralization.
  • Animal welfare: Minimising aggression in captive environments to improve welfare. E.g. using early life socialisation to reduce aggression during later life regrouping in pigs. Other welfare topics being addressed include: the importance of play behaviour, using novel techniques to better understand animal emotion, examining dairy cow welfare and the welfare of dogs in commercial breeding environments.
  • Animal welfare sensor development: Working with industry partners to develop a next generation farm animal welfare and performance sensor.

Summary Title of Current Studentships

  • The effects of early-life social environment on play behaviour, later-life aggression, and assessment ability in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa)
  • Exploring emotion-cognition interactions to assess and improve animal welfare
  • The development of systems to improve the health and performance of dairy-origin beef youngstock
  • Quantifying and evaluating factors influencing the socialisation period of puppies reared in commercial breeding environments
  •  The role of cognitive ability and affective state during aggressive encounters: implications for contest behaviour and animal welfare