Clive Phillips

Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University

I am an Adjunct Professor at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute.

My research interests have included the welfare of farm, companion and captive wild animals, the contamination of the human food chain with heavy metals, and animal and plant production in agricultural systems.

Welfare aspects that I am particularly interested in include adequate animal nutrition, health, housing, transport and reproduction, with an emphasis on cattle, sheep and captive wild animals. In the past I have led research programmes which focused on the mineral status of livestock, forage plants and soils used to grow them. This has included both nutritive minerals, especially sodium, and toxic heavy metals, especially lead and cadmium.

As director of the Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics at the University of Queensland, I co-ordinated research in many diverse aspects of animal welfare and ethics. This included both fundamental science, which is of benefit to our understanding of animal welfare in the long term, as well as applied science, which is of immediate benefit to the animal industries.

Experience

2003–2020

Foundation Professor, University of Queensland
1995–2003

Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Production Medicine, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
1984–1995

Senior lecturer, University of Wales, Bangor

Education

1998

University of Cambridge, MA
1983

University of Glasgow, PhD

Publications

2023

Encyclopaedia of Animal Nutrition. , CABI International, Wallingford
2022

Knight, A., Sparks, P. and Phillips, C.J.C. (editors) 2022. Handbook in Animal Welfare., Routledge (Taylor and Francis) UK.
2018

Phillips, C.J.C. 2018. Principles of Cattle Production. Third Edition., CAB International, Wallingford.
2016

Phillips, C.J.C. (editor) Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals., Springer-Nature. 247 pp
2015

Phillips, C.J.C. The Animal Trade. , CAB International, Wallingford. 208 pp.
2009

Phillips, C.J.C. The Welfare of Animals: The Silent Majority. 220 pp. , Springer, Dordrecht.
2002

Phillips, C.J.C. Cattle Behaviour and Welfare. 264 pp. , Blackwell’s Scientific, Oxford.

Professional Memberships

Humane Society International (Director)

Research Areas

Animal Behaviour (060801)

Honours

Visiting professor, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Adjunct professor, Curtin University

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