Animal Welfare Professionals

Hi all!
The ASPCA has 5 new research funding opportunities we'd love to share (for recipients in North America).

Open Funding Opportunities

• Access to Veterinary Care Research Grants: supporting research that advances knowledge toward expanding animals' access to veterinary care
• Applied Behavior Research Seed Grants: supporting research that advances knowledge in responding to behavior problems in animal shelter populations
• Cruelty Research Seed Grants: supporting research that advances knowledge in preventing and responding to animal cruelty
• Psychological Trauma Research Seed Grants: supporting research aimed at developing or validating behavioral and biological markers of animals' mental suffering due to cruelty
• Open Access Publishing Fund: supporting the dissemination of results of innovative and impactful animal welfare research by subsidizing publication and processing fees for open access scholarly, peer-reviewed articles

 We also offer student research internships (remote) and applicants have to be a current student in the US.

• Internship in Applied Animal Welfare Research, Fall 2022 (Unpaid)

We also have a new open staff position:

• Senior Director, Shelter and Veterinary Services Research

 Finally, we have two conference opportunities, the first more community and animal welfare fully virtual and the second focused on AVC which will have a virtual option of some sort, details TBD.

Calls for Proposals

• 2022 ASPCA-AAWA Research Forum-Call for Proposals: for new research relating to community and shelter animal welfare; forum to be held online November 9, 2022.
• 2022 Access to Veterinary Care (AVC) Conference: Call for Speakers:  conference to be held from October 17-19th, 2022 in Minneapolis, MN.  Anyone engaged in AVC is encouraged to apply!