Animal welfare science is a growing interdisciplinary field combining biology, psychology, ethology, and policy to improve the lives of animals across diverse contexts and systems.
Animal welfare science offers meaningful careers for people motivated to reduce animal suffering through evidence-based approaches. The field has grown enormously in the past 30 years and continues to expand, with new areas including fish welfare, invertebrate welfare, and wild animal welfare offering significant research opportunities. Scientists in this field create the evidence base that underpins improved welfare standards globally.