Speaker bio page for Naomi Harvey

Bio

Naomi is a zoologist with a specialty in applied animal behaviour and veterinary health and welfare. Since November 2019 Naomi has been working at the Dogs Trust as a Research Manager in Canine Behaviour and she holds an honorary position as an Associate Professor of Companion Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the University of Nottingham. With a BSc in Zoology from Cardiff University and PhD in applied canine behaviour from the University of Nottingham, Naomi has a particular speciality in designing and validating methods for securing robust and valid measures of animal behaviour from their owners and carers. Her research interests lie in improving the evidence base for issues affecting companion animal welfare within the fields of veterinary medicine and clinical animal behaviour, to better inform how we manage and treat our companion animals to enhance their welfare. Rabbits are a keen interest of Naomi’s and she successfully completed a rabbit research projects looking into how people perceive rabbits with different skull morphology and supervised masters student Emma Gosling for her study into the welfare of does and bucks kept for breeding rabbits for sale as pets.

Naomi was privileged to live with a remarkable very well-bonded cat with whom she shared 20 years of her life. She now shares her Cambridgeshire home with her husband, two adopted geriatric rabbits and their new rescue dog, Loki (who is learning to be calm around the rabbits!).