Publications

The work developing and validating the AWAG in a variety of species and types of animal use has been published in a number of scientific journals. 

See the list and download the papers that are available on open access below:

  • 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.

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