Dr Carole Fureix
MSc, PhD
Expertise
Current positions
Lecturer in Behavioural Physiology
Bristol Veterinary School
Contact
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Research interests
My research aims to validate novel indicators of animal affective states. I am particularly interested in testing the hypothesis that elevated waking inactivity in animals can indicate failures to adapt to welfare-challenging environments, and particularly depression-like states. I also aim to promote positive changes in practices in order to raise standards of welfare for non-human animals (e.g. laboratory and farmed rodents).
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Research England Enhancing Research Culture 21/22 Seedcorn Fund - Pump-priming a collaboration with a third-sector organization to start community-led research investigating the practice of re- homing of healthy laboratory rats
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
20/03/2022 to 31/07/2022
Plymouth School of Biological and Marine Science PhD Studentship: Validating a new cognitive proxy measure of animal affective state
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/10/2018 to 30/09/2021
BBSRC Brazil Partnering Award - Welfare and health assessment of managed neotropical mammals in Brazil: developing strategies for sustainable food production
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/04/2018 to 31/03/2021
BBSRC Responsive Mode Research Grant - Validating inactivity in the home cage as an indicator of depression-like state in mice
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/10/2017 to 11/11/2021
WALTHAM Collaborative Behaviour & Welfare Award - Out of the darkness: do some dogs suffer from depression-like conditions?
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/12/2015 to 31/12/2017
Publications
Recent publications
28/03/2024Exploring the similarities between risk factors triggering depression in humans and elevated in-cage “Inactive But Awake” behavior in laboratory mice
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Do you see what I see?
Animal Cognition
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)
Behavioural Processes
Validation of complementary non-invasive tools for stress assessment in spotted paca (Cuniculus paca)
Animal Welfare
Do greater levels of in-cage waking inactivity in laboratory mice reflect a spontaneous depression-like symptom?
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior
