Professor Susan Jarvis

Chair of Animal Welfare Science and Education, Director of Teaching, GAAFS, PGR Co-ordinator GAAFS, Co-PD for MSc Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare

Biography

Background

After studying Animal Science at the University of Edinburgh, Susan did a PhD investigating the behaviour and welfare of sows during pregnancy, parturition and lactation.  She then worked at SRUC as a researcher on maternal behaviour of sows, the impacts of pre-natal stress on piglet development, and the genetics of piglet survival. 

 

She then combined her interests in animal behaviour and welfare with teaching, and became Programme Director of the well-established, internationally known, MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare at the University of Edinburgh Vet School.  She has taught and supervised many MSc students on a wide variety of species and investigated many different welfare concerns.

In 2018 Susan joined the Division of Gloabl Agriculture and Food Systems (GAAFS).  Her main responsibilities are the development and delivery of the education provision within GAAFS, leading the Easter Bush Campus Data Driven Innovation Agritech Talent programme and as PGR Convenor for GAAFS.  Her current research area is the welfare of pigs, as well as the welfare of fish within Aquaculture.  She is also leading one of the Vet School Strategy Clusters on Collaboration, Culture and Community Health.  

Responsibilities & affiliations

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Undergraduate teaching

Director of Teaching for GAAFS to oversee delivery of Undergraduate courses 

Postgraduate teaching

Co-Programme Director for the MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare 

PGR Conenvor for the Agriculture and Food Systems PhD and MScR programmes 

Director of Teaching for GAAFS to oversee PGT provision 

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