Postdoctoral Fellowship for Investigating nurse cow-calf rearing on dairy farms
University of Vermont, USA
The University of Vermont is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the welfare of dairy cows and calves in nurse cow-calf rearing systems on commercial dairy farms. The candidate will be housed in the Animal and Veterinary Sciences Department at the University of Vermont, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Burlington, Vermont, USA, and supervised by Dr. Kate Creutzinger.
The successful candidate will lead projects on animal-based outcomes and their management risk factors in nurse cow-calf contact systems. Activities will include farm recruitment, development of assessments, data collection, data management, data analysis, manuscript preparation, and presentation of results. The postdoctoral fellow will also be expected to collaborate with other students and scientists. There will also be the opportunity for the postdoctoral fellow to participate in grant writing and engage in applied ethology and other applied animal research, depending on their interests.
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