Keynote speaker profiles
Emma Baxter
SRUC, Scotland
Emma Baxter is Reader/Associate Professor at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and a research scientist in SRUC’s Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team in Edinburgh. She has almost 25 years of research experience specialising in the welfare and behaviour of pigs, covering challenges across the pig’s life cycle, including piglet survival, high-welfare farrowing systems and alternatives to CO2 stunning at slaughter. Her work has a strong emphasis on translating research into practice through collaboration with industry.
At PRS27, she will explore what characterises a good and sustainable sow life and how welfare can support sow longevity and productivity.
Ken Steen Pedersen
SRUC, Scotland
Emma Baxter is Reader/Associate Professor at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and a research scientist in SRUC’s Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team in Edinburgh. She has almost 25 years of research experience specialising in the welfare and behaviour of pigs, covering challenges across the pig’s life cycle, including piglet survival, high-welfare farrowing systems and alternatives to CO2 stunning at slaughter. Her work has a strong emphasis on translating research into practice through collaboration with industry.
At PRS27, she will explore what characterises a good and sustainable sow life and how welfare can support sow longevity and productivity.
Emma Baxter
SRUC, Scotland
Emma Baxter is Reader/Associate Professor at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and a research scientist in SRUC’s Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team in Edinburgh. She has almost 25 years of research experience specialising in the welfare and behaviour of pigs, covering challenges across the pig’s life cycle, including piglet survival, high-welfare farrowing systems and alternatives to CO2 stunning at slaughter. Her work has a strong emphasis on translating research into practice through collaboration with industry.
At PRS27, she will explore what characterises a good and sustainable sow life and how welfare can support sow longevity and productivity.
Emma Baxter
SRUC, Scotland
Emma Baxter is Reader/Associate Professor at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and a research scientist in SRUC’s Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team in Edinburgh. She has almost 25 years of research experience specialising in the welfare and behaviour of pigs, covering challenges across the pig’s life cycle, including piglet survival, high-welfare farrowing systems and alternatives to CO2 stunning at slaughter. Her work has a strong emphasis on translating research into practice through collaboration with industry.
At PRS27, she will explore what characterises a good and sustainable sow life and how welfare can support sow longevity and productivity.
Emma Baxter
SRUC, Scotland
Emma Baxter is Reader/Associate Professor at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and a research scientist in SRUC’s Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team in Edinburgh. She has almost 25 years of research experience specialising in the welfare and behaviour of pigs, covering challenges across the pig’s life cycle, including piglet survival, high-welfare farrowing systems and alternatives to CO2 stunning at slaughter. Her work has a strong emphasis on translating research into practice through collaboration with industry.
At PRS27, she will explore what characterises a good and sustainable sow life and how welfare can support sow longevity and productivity.