Rate My Professor Siobhan Abeyesinghe

Abeyesinghe's research specializations include poultry behaviour, cognition, and welfare; development and validation of welfare assessment protocols across species; humane slaughter methods, particularly for poultry; animal cognition such as self-control in hens and visual perception in chickens; welfare of deer during lairage and transport; social behaviour and cognition in pigs and poultry; prioritization of canine welfare issues; gas stunning of poultry; environmental management of injurious pecking in turkeys; welfare assessment in cage-free systems for hens; use of artificial intelligence and robotics for monitoring poultry health and welfare; ethics of animal use and management; and impacts of vision-loss on dog and owner quality of life. Key publications include Lawes-Johnson, A., Tak, M., Abeyesinghe, S.M. (2026) 'Untangling Animal-Based Production Narratives: A Review of UK’s Post-Brexit Policy Landscape' in British Food Journal; Abeyesinghe, S.M. et al. (2025) 'Stakeholder views on shifting UK chicken meat production to slower-growing broilers' in Frontiers in Animal Science; Pearce, J. et al. (2024) 'Classification of Behaviour in Conventional and Slow-Growing Strains of Broiler Chickens Using Tri-Axial Accelerometers' in Animals; and Nicol, C.J. et al. (2024) 'An Analysis of the Welfare of Fast-Growing and Slower-Growing Strains of Broiler Chicken' in Frontiers in Animal Science. She has received the Worshipful Company of Poulters' 2002 Poulters' Prize for a significant contribution to the poultry industry by demonstrating self-control in hens and twice won the James Bee RVC Staff teaching award, most recently for student-nominated 'Sensational Supervision' in 2024.