AAWS R&D Advisory Group's Mandate and Activities

The AAWS R&D Advisory Group comprised:

• Chairman: Mr Keith Adams, AAWS Advisory Committee
  
  
• Bernie Bindon, previous CEO Beef Co-operative Research Centre (CRC)
  
  
• Chris Buller, Invasive Animals CRC and member of the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy’s (AAWS’) Animals in the Wild Working Group
  
  
• Mike Rickard, Chairman of the Board of the Animal Welfare Science Centre; Deputy-Chair AAWS Animals In Research and Teaching Working Group
  
  
• Andrew Fisher, Animal Welfare Stream Leader, CSIRO Livestock Industries; member of the AAWS Livestock and Production Animals Working Group
  
  
• Clive Phillips, Founding Chair, University of Queensland Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics
  
  
• John Stewart, Animal Health and Welfare Officer, Cattle Council of Australia
  
  
• Tony Peacock, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Invasive Animals CRC
  
  
• Allan Sheridan, DAFF secretariat; convenor AAWS Animals In Research and Teaching Working Group.

When establishing the Group, the AAWS Advisory Committee charged it with investigating funding models and research coordination. Models considered during this process, included that of a Co-operative Research Centre.  The Terms of Reference for the group were:

1. To develop, with support from the AAWS secretariat, a contact list of significant animal welfare R&D institutions, facilities, managers and researchers in Australia and overseas for AAWS stakeholders. 
   
   
2. To define and report to the Advisory Committee on available mechanisms and structures that facilitate co-ordination of existing animal welfare R&D projects and that can be utilised to maximise efficiency of the outcomes from existing and planned R&D programmes within all AAWS sectors in current facilities and organisations.
   
   
3. To define and report to the Advisory Committee on potential mechanisms and structures in the research area that could be readily developed to facilitate co-ordination of existing animal welfare R&D projects and that could be utilised to maximise efficiency of the outcomes from existing and planned R&D programmes within all AAWS sectors in identified facilities and organisations.  This should include consideration of sectors where funding for animal welfare has not been readily available.
   
   
4. To investigate and categorise available sources (nationally and internationally) of funding for research into animal welfare that are harmonious with the identified mechanisms and structures in order to help working groups and other AAWS stakeholders better map projects for future animal welfare research, particularly those that are consistent with identified R&D priorities from the AAWS scientific workshop that investigated these matters in July 2006, and more readily seek funding from appropriate sources.

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