Mellorater Team
In 2018 Dr Bidda Jones and Professor Paul McGreevy created a checklist to help their undergraduate students apply the Five Domains Model in a live animal welfare assessment exercise. In 2021, Paul McGreevy and Cristina Wilkins proposed its use in making end-of-life decisions in an article published in Horses and People magazine. We immediately agreed the checklist should be updated to the most up-to-date, 2020, Five Domains Model for Animal Welfare Assessment and Monitoring. In 2022, the team engaged with Assoc. Prof William Billingsley (a scholar in Computational Science) who is interested in how technology shapes animal welfare decisions. Together, they have created the 18 statement checklist and built the online Mellorater app.
William Billingsley
Associate Professor in Computational Science , Computer Science - School of Science and Technology, the University of New England, AU.
Bidda Jones
Dr Bidda Jones AM BSc (Hons), GDipPub, PhD, GAICD is a zoologist specialising in animal behaviour and welfare who previously worked for RSPCA Australia as their Chief Science and Strategy Officer.
Paul McGreevy
Paul McGreevy BVSc, PhD, FRCVS is a veterinarian and ethologist. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and seven books.
Cristina Wilkins
Cristina Wilkins is a PhD candidate with the University of New England, Australia, researching human behaviour change for animal welfare. She is a science journalist, editor and the publisher of Horses and People.
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