Kat Littlewood | Lecturer in Animal Welfare
Massey University

Kat Littlewood is a Veterinarian and Lecturer in Animal Welfare within Tāwharau Ora (School of Veterinary Science) at Massey University in New Zealand. She is also a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in animal welfare (by examination) and is passionate about enhancing veterinarians’ understanding, and enactment, of their role as animal welfare experts. Kat’s research employs social science approaches to better understand complex human-animal interactions and ethically challenging situations; and aims to develop a nuanced understanding of why and how people make the decisions they do about how animals are managed. Kat has a diverse range of research interests including understanding how animal welfare is conceptualised by different people; exploring how human values, attitudes, behaviours influencing animal welfare; developing systematic scientific strategies to evaluate animal welfare, and the implementation of animal welfare policy and standards.