Professor Andrew Knight
Professor Andrew Knight is a veterinary Professor of Animal Welfare and a prolific scholar in the field of animals.
Andrew Knight BSc./BVMS, PhD (Griff.), PhD (Winch.), MANZCVS, DipECAWBM (AWSEL), DipACAW, FRCVS, PFHEA is a veterinary Professor of Animal Welfare, affiliated with the School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Environmental and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Western Australia, and the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University, Queensland. He is an Adjunct Professor at both. He is also affiliated with the University of Winchester, where he established and directed its Centre for Animal Welfare from 2015 – 2023. This grew to become one of Winchester’s largest and most active research and knowledge exchange centres. He's also an EBVS European and RCVS Veterinary Specialist in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law, American & New Zealand Veterinary Specialist in Animal Welfare, Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and Principal Fellow of Advance HE.
His books include The Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare (2023), and The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments (2011). He has around 150 academic and 80 popular publications, and an extensive series of social media videos, on vegan companion animal diets, climate change and the livestock sector, invasive animal research, educational animal use, humane clinical and surgical skills training, and other animal welfare issues. Several have been published in leading scientific and medical journals, such as New Scientist, the British Medical Journal USA and PLoS One. He's delivered around 250 presentations at conferences and universities internationally, and has organized or chaired seven conferences and seminars. He regularly works with animal welfare charities to advocate for animals, and is frequently interviewed by the media. He has been honoured with 15 awards and 22 research grants, including the Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics Shomer Award and the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association Humane Achievement Award, both in 2019. He enjoys teaching, and received a University Student-Led Teaching Award in 2017.
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