Training materials and resources
CONTENTS
Preface
Can the use of animals in scientific research be justified?
Discussion seminar for teaching animal ethics/law to students who use isolated tissues
in their studies
Science and Society: Can the use of animals in research be justified?
A debate for use in the teaching of the arguments for and against the use of animals in
scientific research.
Use and abuse of animals in scientific research
Materials for use in the discussion of acceptable boundaries with respect to the use of
animals in research
Ethical dilemmas
Interactive e-learning website which enables individuals to consider their own and
others views on animal welfare issues
Animals in research
Interactive on-line survey and supplementary questions for teaching animal welfare
issues and the ethics of animal experimentation
Are we abusing animals?
Group debate (and suggested topics) of animal welfare issues
Behavioural ecology and animal welfare
Essay for use in the teaching of laboratory animal welfare
Animal ethics and welfare
Student presentations on animal ethics and welfare issues
Animal welfare: Who is right?
Evaluating and discussing video clips of animal welfare issues
Animal welfare: What would you do?
Case study of an animal welfare issue
Xenopus husbandry in practice
PowerPoint slides for Xenopus husbandry training course
Poultry husbandry
PowerPoint slides for poultry husbandry (modules 2 & 3) training course
A question of ethics
Compilation of ethical questions and issues for debate
Ethical review & the 3Rs
Case studies and class discussions to provide training for PIL holders/Schedule 1
Users in animal welfare, ethical review processes and the application of the 3Rs in their
own studies/research
Ergodynia- Hope at last!
Workshop for the teaching of experimental design and Ethical Review Processes
Designing in-vivo experiments
Workshop to teach experimental design and application of the 3Rs
Alternatives to animal experimentation
PowerPoint presentation of the alternatives to animal experimentation
Strategic planning for research programmes
Planning chart for reducing animal use in Biomedical Science
Applying the 3Rs in project design
Discussion of strategies by which the 3Rs can be applied before and during a project
Direct ethical implications and wider social impact of a programme of research
Applying training in ethical thinking to consider the ethical issues and social impact of a
programme of research
Animal experiments: Cruel or necessary?
Ethics-based “Science and Society” activities; an alternative non-laboratory base final
year research project
Science & Society activities in Schools
Materials and ideas for schools presentations
Links to training material and other resources