Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
organization
The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is an animal welfare science society. It is a UK-registered scientific and educational charity.
UFAW works to improve animals' lives by promoting and supporting developments in the science and technology that underpin advances in animal welfare. It organises symposia, conferences and meetings, and publishes books, videos, technical reports and the quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal Animal Welfare. Its work has primarily been funded by donations, subscriptions and legacies.
Research and education grants and awards
UFAW has supported a wide range of project types, through the following:
Hume Animal Welfare Research Fellowships
Research Training Scholarships
Animal Welfare Student Scholarships
Small Project and Travel Awards
Research and Project Awards
UFAW 3Rs Liaison Group Research Studentships
History
In 1926, the University of London Animal Welfare Society (ULAWS) was founded by Major Charles Hume. As its support base amongst academic institutions grew and as more institutions and people learned of and championed the scientific approach to animal problems that ULAWS stood for, the name of the society was changed, in 1938, to the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW).
UFAW's aims were:
To enlist the influence of university men and women on behalf of animals, wild and domestic;
To promote, by educational and other methods, interest in the welfare of animals in Great Britain and abroad;
To lessen, by methods appropriate to the special character of a university organisation, the pain and fear inflicted on animals by man;
To obtain and disseminate accurate information relating to animal welfare;
To further and promote legislation for the protection of animals.
UFAW advocates the humane control of wild animals and in 1932 held a meeting on humane methods of trapping rabbits which led to their 1934 book publication "Man versus Rabbit" by A. H. B. Kirkman. The book raised awareness about the cruelty of the leg-hold trap and humane alternatives.
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