Publications

Dennis M, Charlton M, Elam S & Wolfensohn S (2024) Facility design and management. Strategies for high level biocontainment. Laboratory Animals Special Edition 0(0) 1–9 http://doi.org/10.1177/00236772241247104
Malkani, R., Paramasivam, S., & Wolfensohn, S. (2024). How does chronic pain impact the lives of dogs: an investigation of factors that are associated with pain using the Animal Welfare Assessment Grid. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 11, 1374858. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2024.1374858
Malkani R, Paramasivam S, Wolfensohn S. (2024) A Multidimensional Evaluation of the Factors in the Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG) That Are Associated with, and Predictive of, Behaviour Disorders in Dogs. Animals. 14(4):528. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14040528
Pet Profession Podcast 2024: Euthanasia. With Anthony Chadwick from Webinar Vet about euthanasia and the AWAG. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3p18wUgXxLuPerwNf0BWkx?si=GNfiP1BWQUeV0bceYbw-EA
Wolfensohn S (2024) Understand and improve welfare by using the Animal Welfare Assessment Grid. Global Synergy for Animal Welfare 2024: From Research to Impact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOuT5f4VOtM
Free D, and Wolfensohn S. (2023) Assessing the welfare of captive group-housed cockroaches, Gromphadorhina oblongonota Animals 13(21), 3351; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13213351
Malkani R, Paramasivam S and Wolfensohn S (2022) Preliminary validation of a novel tool to assess dog welfare: The Animal Welfare Assessment Grid. Front. Vet. Sci. 9:940017 https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.940017
Free, D.; Justice, W.S.M.; Smith, S.J.; Howard, V.; Wolfensohn, S. An Approach to Assessing Zoo Animal Welfare in a Rarely Studied Species, the Common Cusimanse Crossarchus obscurus. J. Zool. Bot. Gard. 2022, 3, 420–441. https://doi.org/10.3390/jzbg3030032
Narshi, T.M.; Free, D.; Justice, W.S.M.; Smith, S.J.; Wolfensohn, S. Welfare Assessment of Invertebrates: Adapting the Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG) for Zoo Decapods and Cephalopods. Animals 2022, 12, 1675 https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12131675
Ryan, M.; Waters, R.; Wolfensohn, S. Assessment of the Welfare of Experimental Cattle and Pigs Using the Animal Welfare Assessment Grid. Animals 2021, 11, 999. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11040999
Wolfensohn S (2020) Too cute to kill? The need for objective measurements of quality of life. Animals 10 1054, https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10061054
Dunn RA (2020) The Sooner the Better: The Arguments for the Use of Extended Welfare Assessment Grids in Animal Welfare Cases. Liverpool Law Review https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-020-09243-2
Sarah Wolfensohn, Justine Shotton, Hannah Bowley, Sian Davies, Sarah Thompson & William Justice (2018) Assessment of Welfare in Zoo Animals: Towards Optimum Quality of Life. Animals 8, 110; http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/8/7/110
Justice, WSM., O'Brien, MF., Szyszka, O., Shotton, J., Gilmour, JEM., Riordan, P., Wolfensohn, S. (2017) Adaptation of the animal welfare assessment grid (AWAG) for monitoring animal welfare in zoological collections Veterinary Record 181, 143. http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/vr.104309
Wolfensohn S, Sharpe S, Hall I, Lawrence S, Kitchen S, Dennis M. Refinement of welfare through development of a quantitative system for assessment of lifetime experience. Animal Welfare. 2015;24(2):139-149. https://doi:10.7120/09627286.24.2.139
Honess P & Wolfensohn S (2010). A matrix for the assessment of welfare and cumulative suffering in experimental animals. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals. 38(3): 205-212.
Wolfensohn, S. and Honess, P. (2007) Laboratory animal, pet animal, farm animal, wild animal: Who gets the best deal? UFAW Symposium: Quality of Life: The Heart of the Matter. Animal Welfare 16 supplement 1, 117-123.