Understanding laboratory lives: Developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal welfare. (360G-Wellcome-104339_Z_14_Z)

This proposed research will develop a state of the art review and transdisciplinary and collaborative research agenda for the future of humanities and social science research on laboratory animal welfare. This will be achieved through two workshops (Exeter and London) jointly organised by the named collaborators, who are all active researchers pioneering innovative social science and humanities research on the past and contemporary landscapes of laboratory animal welfare. The research ac tivities aim to further the potential for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal welfare to connect to international debates in the scientific and policy community. This will be achieved through: 1) building interdisciplinary and international networks for intellectual exchange between humanities, scientific and social scientific scholars working on laboratory animal welfare; 2) using a collaborative process, with policy-makers, to identify critical research questio ns at the science/social science/policy interface for the future of laboratory animal welfare; 3) publishing a high-profile open-access article reviewing existing humanities and social science research on laboratory animal welfare and defining future research agendas; 4) developing and submitting a further research grant proposal with interdisciplinary and international collaborators on these research agendas.