Specialist quality of life consultations when you need expert support to understand your animal and resources to help you prepare for the conversations that matter about your animal’s care.
Team-based training in quality of life assessment, contextual care, motivational interviewing, and behaviour change to help you interpret what animals are saying and take action to improve their care.
Resources to support people working at the human-animal interface from capturing evidence about animal and human experiences to translating it into real-world change
Independent assessment and advisory support for organisations developing or reviewing animal welfare policy and standards.
Research design consultation to help organisations capture the right information about animals and the people who care for them.
Bespoke competency-based welfare, behaviour change, and communication training programmes designed for your organisation and context.
Evaluation frameworks and support to measure whether your animal welfare or behaviour change programmes are making a difference.
Broader input on organisational direction around animal welfare and behaviour change.
Expert input for organisations working to improve animal care.
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Animals cannot tell us in words how they are feeling. But the people who care for them never stop trying to figure out how to help them lead happier, healthier lives.
Owners lie awake wondering if their animal is comfortable, whether they are making the right call, whether they are doing enough, but they don’t always know how to get the answers they need. Veterinary teams have the clinical knowledge but not always the time, the tools, or the words to help owners understand what they are seeing and act on it. Researchers are building the evidence that could transform animal care, but it doesn’t always reach the people and places where it would make the biggest difference.
AkoVet exists to bridge those gaps in communication and help people work together to make better decisions for animals.
Specialist Quality of Life Consults
Welfare Assessment CPD
Study Design Support
Extension Resources
Motivational Interviewing and Behaviour Change CPD
Clinical Workflow Apps
We bring together specialist expertise in animal welfare science, evidence-based medicine, behaviour change, and veterinary education.
BSc VMD Phd MRCVS SFHEA
The thing nobody tells you in vet school is that clinical knowledge is only part of the job. The harder part is the people: helping owners make sense of complex information, giving teams the skills to have conversations that actually land, and making sure the evidence generated by researchers finds its way into practice rather than sitting in journals. I have spent 15 years working across clinical practice, research, and education trying to understand why that gap exists and what it takes to close it. At AkoVet, I put that understanding to work through behaviour change, educational design, and evidence-based training that helps owners, veterinary teams, and organisations make better decisions for the animals in their care.
BVSc(Dist) PGDipVCS(Dist) PhD AFHEA FANZCVS(AWSEL)
I became a veterinarian because I love animals and want to help them live their best lives, but I quickly learned that good intentions are not enough. Animals depend on the people around them to notice, interpret, and act on what they are communicating, and the better we support those people, the better life gets for the animals in their care. My work as a Registered Veterinary Specialist in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law has taken me across clinical practice, research, teaching, and policy, and the thread running through it all is the Five Domains Model: a way of assessing welfare that takes the animal’s experience seriously. At AkoVet, I bring that lens to the work we do with owners, veterinary teams, researchers, and organisations, so that what animals are telling us actually shapes how they are cared for.
Helping people understand animals and each other