Gail F Davies, Beth J Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G W Kirk, Ken Applebee, Laura C Bellingan, Manuel Berdoy, Henry Buller, Helen J Cassaday, Keith Davies, Daniela Diefenbacher, Tone Druglitrø, Maria Paula Escobar, Carrie Friese, Kathrin Herrmann, Amy Hinterberger, Wendy J Jarrett, Kimberley Jayne, Adam M Johnson, Elizabeth R Johnson, Timm Konold, Matthew C Leach, Sabina Leonelli, David I Lewis, Elliot J Lilley, Emma R Longridge, Carmen M McLeod, Mara Miele, Nicole C Nelson, Elisabeth H Ormandy, Helen Pallett, Lonneke Poort, Pandora Pound, Edmund Ramsden, Emma Roe, Helen Scalway, Astrid Schrader, Chris J Scotton, Cheryl L Scudamore, Jane A Smith, Lucy Whitfield, Sarah Wolfensohn
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways...
2016: PloS One