Regional Secretaries

 

Upcoming Regional Meetings

We are delighted to announce that registration for the 2026 ISAE UK & Ireland Regional meeting is now OPEN! The meeting will take place on 21 April 2026 and be held at University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Nottingham (UK).

You can register on eventbrite. Cost of attendance is £45 for full paying members and £33 for student members (incl booking fees). This includes tea/coffee and a lunch on the day. 

 

The event promises to be an action packed day; we have three fabulous invited speakers:

• Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas from University of Glasgow will be joining us at the regional meeting as our keynote speaker for a talk entitled 'What Happens When Animals Control Technology?' More information is available here; but the talk will explore what giving animals agency over technology reveals about their social cognition and decision-making abilities, and how using computers affects their own and their human companions’ behaviours.
• Dr Louise Evans from University of Bristol will be hosting a workshop entitled ‘Judgement Bias: Windows into Animal Emotion and Cognition’ where you will have the opportunity to learn more about judgement bias and the role it plays in animal cognition and welfare, and explore experimental paradigms which can be used to measure judgement bias
• Dr Lisa Yon from University of Nottingham will be hosting a workshop on qualitative behavioural assessment (QBA) and it’s utility from the perspective of the Five Domains model of animal welfare, including how QBA data can be interpreted

If you have any questions please email us on .

 

Keeping in touch with events in the region

LinkedIn page

We have a new LinkedIn page, on which we share information about the region! Follow that page here.

Seminar series

We have also started a monthly seminar series – if you are interested in presenting one month please drop us an email on ; with the title of your talk and when you would be interested. You can see upcoming webinars on our LinkedIn page.

JISC mailing list

We also have a new JISC mailing list to help share information about information relevant to the region.

To join our new list, click here and fill in your details.

Alternatively, you can email , and just include in the text the following (use your own firstname and surname!): join ISAE-UKANDIRELAND FIRSTNAME SURNAME

 

Resources and Archives

To learn more about activities and resources specific to the UK and Ireland region of the ISAE, follow the link below:

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