Degree project

Anthrozoology

• International study about what owners value in their relationship to their cat - Therese Rehn
• International study about what owners value in their relationship to their dog - Therese Rehn
• Cats in care of elderly people - Lena Lidfors
• Cat assisted therapy – how does that work? - Lena Lidfors
• Use of Green Care farms to help people with different needs - Lena Lidfors
• Visitor effects on zoo animals – Maria Andersson/Lisa Lundin
• How to increase animal knowledge in the society? – Maria Andersson and Jenny Yngvesson
• Dominance and leadership: useful theories in the horse-human interactions? - Elke Hartman
• Looking forward to human interactions? Horses' anticipatory behaviour as an indication of emotional states - Elke Hartman

Ethology

• Assessing personality in dairy cows: links to production and welfare - Daiana de Oliveira and Kirste McCrea
• Should geldings and mares be kept separately? - Jenny Yngvesson
• How is your dog feeling? Developing new ways to assess emotions in dogs with separation anxiety (Master’s thesis) - Else Verbeek
• Does horses’ behaviour change when given odontoplast treatment? - Jenny Yngvesson
• Play in sheep, pigs and other animals - Lena Lidfors
• Pup lethality in farmed mink - Lena Lidfors
• Sheep coping outdoors in the winter - Lena Lidfors
• Behaviour and welfare in zoo animals - Lisa Lundin
• Abnormal behaviour in horses - Anna Lundberg
• Motivation for foraging in different horse breeds - Anna Lundberg
• Behaviour in different broiler hybrids in organic production – Jenny Yngvesson and Stefan Gunnarsson
• Do pigs build night nests? – a field study - Jenny Yngvesson
• Nose band and horse behaviour - Jenny Yngvesson
• Dominance and leadership: useful theories in the horse-human interactions? - Elke Hartman
• Horses social behaviour in Active group housing - Jenny Yngvesson
• Caretaking behaviour and its effect on the emotional bonding in dogs - Therese Rehn
• Straw racks - a way of increasing pigs' exploratory possibilities? We have conducted experiments were we want to investigate the impact of providing straw in racks instead of on the floor for commercial finishing pigs. Could this be a way to increase availability of straw and hence also explorative activities? - Torun Wallgren
• Are horses calmer with a horse portrait in the trailer? – a field study with both behavioural and physiological parameters - Jenny Yngvesson
• Play behaviour in Urials (Ovis orientalis bochariensis) – a field study at the zoo Nordens Ark during spring 2018 - Jenny Yngvesson
• Pigs' motivation for litter/straw/enrichment - Jenny Yngvesson. Project suitable for a MSc-student. After a thorough literature search pigs' motivation for accessing enrichment is measured with an operant test. The student needs a strong background in ethology.
• Training pigs to enter new environments - Jenny Yngvesson
• Cattle olfaction – which odours can cows detect? - Maria Vilain Rørvang
• How could cattle cognition help the daily management of cattle? - Maria Vilain Rørvang
• Behaviour and welfare of pigs during the end of the fattening period - Maria Vilain Rørvang
• Olfactory exploration of pigs and/or cattle kept under semi-natural environments - Maria Vilain Rørvang
• Not as scared, or just as scared? (Icelandic horses) - Jenny Yngvesson and Maria Vilain Rørvang
• Social habituation in cattle - Jenny Yngvesson och Maria Vilain Rørvang
• Navigating barriers in domestic cattle - Jenny Yngvesson och Maria Vilain Rørvang
• The hiding calf - Jenny Yngvesson och Maria Vilain Rørvang
• Looking forward to human interactions? Horses' anticipatory behaviour as an indication of emotional states - Elke Hartman 
• SowNest – in an ongoing research project in the pig facility at Lövsta, we study the link between sows' nest building behavior and piglet survival. We also want to study the difference in nest building behavior between different individuals. Behavioral observation is done both by video surveillance and with activity loggers - Rebecka Westin
• Differences in sow and piglet behaviour during the nursing period between breeds - Anna Wallenbeck
• Looking forward to human interactions? Horses’ anticipatory behaviour as an indication of emotional states - Elke Hartman

Animal Ethics

• Veterinarian knowledge about violence against animals and humans in close relations - Helena Röcklinsberg
• Ethical aspects of training of animals by using other animals (e.g. dog/badger and dog/sheep) - Helena Röcklinsberg
• Ethics of using animals for experiments – how to perform a proper Harm-Benefit analysis, and what is the role of 3R in the evaluation process? Does the Bateson’s cube hold three equally relevant requirements, or is a hierarchy between them needed, and if so, in which order and why? - Helena Röcklinsberg
• Discrepancies between what I need to do, and what I want to do, or between what I don't want to do and what I have to...Moral stress within the profession of veterinarian/veterinary nurse - Helena Röcklinsberg
• Ethics of advisors – Role of rofessionals within animal housing, feeding and care – challenges and possibilities - Helena Röcklinsberg
• Swedish consumers' perception and ethical reflection regarding insects as food - Helena Röcklinsberg 
• Ethical argumentation behind choice of housing for horses - Jenny Yngvesson
• Religous slaughter in Sweden - Lotta Berg

Animal Welfare and Animal Protection

• Are we forgetting animal welfare in sustainable development? - Linda Keeling, Elin Röös
• Welfare in organic broilers- sleep and perch use at night – video film analysis - Jenny Yngvesson
• Welfare in organic broilers – daytime behaviour - Jenny Yngvesson

Animal Environment & Health (including production related diseases)

• in commercial pig production - development of welfare indicators for benchmarking tools adapted to pig production under Swedish conditions. The student works with researchers at SLU and herd veterinarians at Gård & Djurhälsan - Anna Wallenbeck
• Mapping of housing and production environments in Swedish pig production. The student works with researchers at SLU and herd veterinarians at Gård & Djurhälsan - Anna Wallenbeck
• Health in different broiler hybrids in organic systems – Anna Wallenbeck and Stefan Gunnarsson
• Beef cattle in Amazon rain forest – Jens Jung
• Salmonella in broilers – a knowledge review for prevention and routine validation - Lotta Berg
• Importance of routines at the dairy farm – calf welfare and future production - Katarina Arvidsson Segerkvist
• SowNest – in an ongoing research project in the pig facility at Lövsta, we study the link between sows' nest building behavior and piglet survival. We also want to study the difference in nest building behavior between different individuals. Behavioral observation is done both by video surveillance and with activity loggers - Rebecka Westin 
• How active is a pig? With activity loggers you will measure and compare how active pigs are in different housing systems. For example sows in group-housing systems with transponder feeding compared to when kept in conventional pens or in organic production with outdoor access - Rebecka Westin 

Beef and lamb production