Registration Details
Attending IAT Congress is a great opportunity for animal technicians to advance their professional skills and knowledge, showcase their commitment to animal welfare and communicate ideas and experiences to like-minded people.
The NC3Rs will be presenting an interactive workshop on evaluating environmental enrichment, including the importance of considering the natural behaviour of animals and ways to improve the reliability of your findings.
Confidence is key: evaluating environmental enrichment for improved animal welfare
When trying a new form of environmental enrichment, or reviewing what is currently provided, assessing whether it improves animal welfare is a vital part of the process. Evaluations of environmental enrichment allow us to make confident, welfare-focused decisions. However, overcoming the challenges of assessing enrichment within a research setting, and knowing where to start, can be intimidating.
This interactive session will draw upon practical resources created by the NC3Rs in collaboration with the RSPCA and the IAT. Together we will cover the process of an evaluation including the importance of considering the natural behaviour of animals, how to ask animals what they want and ways to improve the reliability of your findings.
This workshop is suitable for animal technicians who are new to evaluating enrichment and those with more experience who want to make improvements to their current approach. Join us if you want to have increased confidence that the environmental enrichment that you provide to your animals is improving their welfare.
Unable to attend? Register for our webinar in March
If you are unable to attend IAT, we are running an online webinar providing an overview of the resources available to support animal technicians who want to carry out evaluations of enrichment and practical guidance from a technician’s perspective.
Register now: Evaluations of environmental enrichment
Wednesday 1 March 2023, 12:00 - 12:45 (GMT).