by Andrew Knight | Jul 11, 2021 | News 2020
The disheartening first half of 2020 was definitely far from what any of us were hoping for. Yet, it would be dishonest to say that what we are facing right now is something completely unexpected. Already in 2007, researchers from Hong Kong tried to raise awareness of...
by Andrew Knight | Nov 15, 2020 | News 2020
A New Zealand High Court judge has just ruled that the government’s legalisation of extremely restrictive cages (‘farrowing crates’) for pregnant sows – the main confinement system used for more than 14,000 pregnant New Zealand pigs annually, for decades – is illegal,...
by Andrew Knight | Nov 9, 2020 | News 2020
With Open Cages and Prof. Emeritus David Wiebers, I’ve just published a detailed report examining welfare problems and disease risks created by intensive meat chicken farming, including the risks of future global pandemics. It also highlights action supermarkets can...
by Andrew Knight | Nov 1, 2020 | News 2020
I’m very honoured to have been Appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University, Queensland. Griffith is a research-intensive university, ranking in the top 2% of universities worldwide. It’s 50,000 students and...
by Andrew Knight | Sep 11, 2020 | News 2020
I’m deeply honoured to have been named Griffith University Science Group’s Outstanding Alumnus for 2020. I received my PhD from Griffith in 2010, for a thesis critiquing invasive scientific and educational animal use, and exploring alternative...
by Andrew Knight | Jul 16, 2020 | News 2020
My PhD student Constanca Carvalho, colleagues and I have published a new study examining the contribution of animal, in vitro and in silico studies to current knowledge of Major Depressive Disorder, via citation analysis. The non-animal models were cited more...
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