Welcome to CCSAW

The Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, based at University of Guelph, is one of the largest research centres in the world focused on animal well-being. CCSAW has been promoting animal welfare through rigorous scholarship, inspirational education and evidence-based research for over 30 years.

Our members include many animal welfare scientists and their dozens of graduate students and post-docs; veterinary experts in dairy welfare; a growing ‘animal studies’ group; dozens of other associated faculty expert in a range of diverse other disciplines; plus university staff and adjunct faculty working on practical animal care and welfare assessment.

We’re under construction

This is our new website! Some pages are still being worked on, with new information added everyday. We appreciate and welcome your feedback. If you see any content amiss, or have a correction or question, let us know by emailing Katie at kdunca09@uoguelph.ca.

CCSAW members pictured at an ISA conference.
Getting all CCSAW members into one place is a challenge, but here are at least some of us (at a recent ISAE conference)!

Territorial acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that the University of Guelph sits on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people.