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Christine Nicol
Christine Nicol is an author, academic and a researcher. She is a Professor of Animal Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College and has honorary appointments at the University of Oxford and the University of Lincoln. She is the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Animal Science.
Nicol is the author of The Behavioural Biology of Chickens and has published over 200 research articles. Her research is focused primarily on the animal welfare science, including poultry production, cognitive abilities of domestic animals and the impact of humans on the welfare of wild animals.
Nicol's work has been internationally recognized. She was awarded Prince Laurent Foundation prize in 2001. She is the recipient of several awards such as UFAW Award and Medal for Outstanding Achievement, European Association for Animal Production A.M. Leroy Fellowship Award, ISAE 50th Anniversary Wood-Gush Memorial Award and British Veterinary Association Wooldridge Memorial Medal. Her work has contributed to EU ban on conventional battery cages for laying hens in 2012. She was recognized as an ASAB Tinbergen Lecturer in 2017.
Nicol completed her Bachelors in Zoology and her Ph.D. at Somerville College, Oxford in 1981 and 1986 respectively.
Nicol started her academic career in 1985 as a lecturer at University of Bristol. At the university, she was promoted to Reader in 1994 and then taught as a Professor of Animal Welfare from 2001 till 2017. During this time, she held visiting positions at Hamilton and McGill Universities and University of Waikato. In 2018, she was appointed as Professor at the Royal Veterinary College.
She was appointed as an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University of Oxford and as Honorary Visiting Professor at University of Lincoln in 2017. Apart from academic positions, Nicol also held research and administrative positions and Chaired the ASAB Education Committee from 1994 till 1996. She was appointed as Field Chief Editor at Frontiers in Animal Science in 2020.
Nicol wrote and presented a BBC radio series on animal ethics for a non-specialist audience.
Nicol's research focuses on animal welfare science as the primary research area. She has conducted significant research on the methods used in this field. In her research about the need of hens to flap their wings in a cage environment, experiments in a controlled setting were conducted, differences between the control and experiment group were observed and the rebound rate was recorded during the experiment replication. This showed that hens did not adapt to living in a battery cage. She has also conducted investigations on how closely the commonly used welfare assessing measures are tied to animals’ preferences and environmental choices. She placed hens in three different environments and observed the environmental preferences for each animal. The findings provide a way of validating and justifying welfare indicators that can be used in practice.
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Christine Nicol
Christine Nicol is an author, academic and a researcher. She is a Professor of Animal Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College and has honorary appointments at the University of Oxford and the University of Lincoln. She is the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Animal Science.
Nicol is the author of The Behavioural Biology of Chickens and has published over 200 research articles. Her research is focused primarily on the animal welfare science, including poultry production, cognitive abilities of domestic animals and the impact of humans on the welfare of wild animals.
Nicol's work has been internationally recognized. She was awarded Prince Laurent Foundation prize in 2001. She is the recipient of several awards such as UFAW Award and Medal for Outstanding Achievement, European Association for Animal Production A.M. Leroy Fellowship Award, ISAE 50th Anniversary Wood-Gush Memorial Award and British Veterinary Association Wooldridge Memorial Medal. Her work has contributed to EU ban on conventional battery cages for laying hens in 2012. She was recognized as an ASAB Tinbergen Lecturer in 2017.
Nicol completed her Bachelors in Zoology and her Ph.D. at Somerville College, Oxford in 1981 and 1986 respectively.
Nicol started her academic career in 1985 as a lecturer at University of Bristol. At the university, she was promoted to Reader in 1994 and then taught as a Professor of Animal Welfare from 2001 till 2017. During this time, she held visiting positions at Hamilton and McGill Universities and University of Waikato. In 2018, she was appointed as Professor at the Royal Veterinary College.
She was appointed as an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University of Oxford and as Honorary Visiting Professor at University of Lincoln in 2017. Apart from academic positions, Nicol also held research and administrative positions and Chaired the ASAB Education Committee from 1994 till 1996. She was appointed as Field Chief Editor at Frontiers in Animal Science in 2020.
Nicol wrote and presented a BBC radio series on animal ethics for a non-specialist audience.
Nicol's research focuses on animal welfare science as the primary research area. She has conducted significant research on the methods used in this field. In her research about the need of hens to flap their wings in a cage environment, experiments in a controlled setting were conducted, differences between the control and experiment group were observed and the rebound rate was recorded during the experiment replication. This showed that hens did not adapt to living in a battery cage. She has also conducted investigations on how closely the commonly used welfare assessing measures are tied to animals’ preferences and environmental choices. She placed hens in three different environments and observed the environmental preferences for each animal. The findings provide a way of validating and justifying welfare indicators that can be used in practice.