Sarah is a veterinarian and animal welfare scientist who has worked in private and government veterinary practice. She has also held national animal welfare management roles within the Australian dairy industry and within commercial beef production and processing. She holds a PhD in Veterinary Science (Animal Welfare) from the University of Melbourne and completed her Postgraduate Research Fellowship at The University of British Columbia's Animal Welfare Program. She is also a Member of The ANZCVS's Animal Welfare, Science, Ethics, and Law Chapter. Sarah's overall research aim is to support systems of human-animal interactions that are simultaneously environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. She has a particular interest in research that seeks to address complex ethical challenges in human-animal interactions where the needs of all actors, including the public and the animals, need to be understood and accounted for. Her research to date has included the welfare of surplus dairy calves and cow-calf contact dairy systems, ethical challenges and moral distress in livestock veterinary practice, and the role of gender identity in livestock care practices.
