Combining expertise in animal welfare and behaviour change to help you design policy, research, and training that has real-world impact on animals and the people who care for them.
Developing welfare standards and guidelines that hold up is harder than it looks. The evidence base is complex, translating it into practical policy requires specialist knowledge, and implementation decisions involve tradeoffs that aren’t always obvious from the research alone.
We help organisations get this right by reviewing and developing welfare standards grounded in current evidence, advising on policy and regulation, and supporting the strategic planning needed to prioritise and implement change effectively.
Our welfare work is led by Kat Littlewood, one of a small number of registered veterinary specialists in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics, and Law worldwide, and a contributor to the Five Domains Model for Animal Welfare Assessment.
Most organisations working on animal welfare are trying to make good decisions, but good decisions require good evidence, and getting the evidence right starts well before data collection begins. Poorly framed questions, mismatched study designs, and outcomes that can’t be measured are the most common reasons research fails to deliver what organisations actually need.
We work with organisations at any stage of the research process, from framing the right question and choosing a study design that can answer it, to reviewing existing literature, designing impact evaluations, and translating findings into practical recommendations.
Our research team combines expertise in animal welfare science, qualitative methods, and animal-based indicators with quantitative analysis, human behaviour change, and impact modelling, giving us an unusually broad methodological range for work at the human-animal interface.
Most professional training teaches people things. Changing what people actually do requires something different. A competency-based approach builds skills through practice, measures whether they transfer to the real world, and is designed around the contexts people work in rather than the content developers find easiest to deliver.
We design and deliver education programmes for organisations working at the human-animal interface, covering animal welfare assessment, quality of life monitoring, epidemiology, and communication and behaviour change. Programmes are built to be applied from day one, not filed away after the workshop ends.
Our education work is led by Carolyn Gates, Prime Minister’s Educator of the Year 2022, with specialist input from Kat Littlewood on welfare assessment content.
Every organisation we work with comes to us with a different problem, at a different stage, with different constraints. We don’t have off-the-shelf packages because we want to develop something that works uniquely for you. What we do instead is start with a conversation. Tell us what you’re trying to achieve and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help, what that might look like, and what it’s likely to involve. If there’s a good fit, we’ll put together a scoped proposal with a clear outline of the work, timeline, and budget.
A free 30-minute discovery call to understand your situation, what you're trying to achieve, and whether we're the right people to help.
If there's a good fit, we come back with a clear proposal outlining what we'd do, how long it would take, and what it would cost.
We deliver the project and make sure the output is something your organisation can actually use.
If you’re exploring ways to improve animal care through welfare science, behaviour change, or education, get in touch to schedule a free 30 minute discovery call. We’ll listen, ask good questions, and point you in the right direction.
Helping people understand animals and each other