Teaching

Modules taught include

Animal Health and Nutrition
Domestication and the Behaviour of Domestic and Captive Animals
Animal Welfare and Society
Design for Animal Welfare
Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare

Equine Welfare Consultancy

For RSPCA

• Generated Horse and Pony Welfare Guidelines for RSPCA, convened and managed a panel of experts to review and settle on the final versions.
• Commissioned to produce a report on the welfare implications of methods of permanent identification of horse and ponies, including hot branding, freeze marking and microchipping. Involves literature review, stakeholder consultation and behavioural observations during identification procedures. Will be used to inform RSPCA position statement on identification methods concerned.
• Representation of RSPCA at meetings of bodies such as NEWC (National Equine Welfare Council) and at the Equine Health and Welfare Strategy Meeting.

For NEWC (National Equine Welfare Council)

• Elected to the Management Board. Anglia Ruskin University is a Full Welfare Member of NEWC.

For World Horse Welfare (WHW)

• Provided training on behavioural assessment of welfare for Romanian and Italian vets recruited for research on welfare of horses transported for slaughter
• Contributor to WHW Dossier of Evidence on the welfare of horses transported for slaughter, submitted to the European Parliament. Campaign details available here

 

Publications

Phillips, C., Izmirli, S., Aldavood, J., Alonso, M., Choe, B., Hanlon, A., Handziska, A., Illman, G., Keeling, L., Kennedy, M.,Lee, G., Lund, V., Mejdell, C., Pelagic, V., and Rehn, T. (2011) An International Comparison of Female and Male Students Attitudes to the Use of Animals. Animals, 1(1), 7-26; doi:10.3390/ani1010007. Available from: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/1/7/

Marlin, D., Kettlewell, P., Parkin, T., Kennedy, M., Broom, D. and Wood, J. (2011) Welfare and health of horses transported for slaughter within the European Union Part 1: Methodology and descriptive data. Equine Veterinary Journal 43(1): 78-87

Marlin, D., Meldrum, K., White, J., Westen, H., Parkin, T., Wood, J., Broom, D., Kennedy, M., Johnson, B., Coombs, S. and Heard, C. (2009) Welfare of horses transported long distances in Europe. Veterinary Record 165: 270.

Thorne, J.B., Goodwin, D., Kennedy, M.J., Davidson, H.P.B., Harris, P. (2005) Foraging enrichment for individually housed horses: Practicality and effects on behaviour. Applied Animal Behaviour Science (94): 149-164.

Kennedy, M.J. (2001). Compartmentalization: A useful tool or a hindrance? Animal Welfare, 10 (Supplement): 242.

Kennedy, M.J. (1999). The behaviour and welfare of pigs on the mixing of unfamiliar groups and on exposure to conventional and novel management techniques. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge.

Kennedy, M.J. (1996). Common factors among horses performing stereotypies. Stocarstvo, 50 (6): 423-428.

Kennedy, M.J. (1995). Measuring the welfare of the horse. In The Thinking Horse, Equine Research Centre, University of Guelph: 76-81.

Kennedy, M.J., Schwabe, A.E. & Broom, D.M. (1993). Crib-biting and wind-sucking stereotypies in the horse. Equine vet. Educ., 5(3): 142-147.

Broom, D.M. & Kennedy, M.J. (1993). Stereotypies in horses: their relevance to welfare and causation. Equine vet. Educ., 5(3): 151-154.