Webinar #16
Join us for HETI Educational Webinars exploring ways to enhance and practice Equine Assisted Services
The Five Domains of Horse Welfare in Practice
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What will our webinar be about?
In this webinar, you’ll gain fresh perspectives, practical tools, and a ‘welfare language’ that will boost your confidence in assessing and improving horses’ lives in real-world settings. Whether you work in Equine-Assisted Therapies or simply want to integrate welfare improvements into everything you do with your horses, this session will help you recognise what you’re already doing well, and show you where there are opportunities to make an even greater impact.
Cristina Wilkins
PhD candidate, writer, welfare scientist
Cristina Wilkins is a PhD candidate with the University of New England (UNE), Australia, investigating the One Welfare outcomes of human-horse interactions. She works with leading animal welfare scientists in developing the Mellorater, a welfare monitoring app for animal guardians. Cristina honed her science communication skills as publisher and editor of Horses and People, and more recently, she created an short course for the UNE titled Applying the Five Domains Model to the Welfare Assessment of Sport and Recreation Horses. She has previous experience as an equestrian coach, official, and international competitor in eventing. She has worked in the equine sector in Spain, the UK and New Zealand, before settling in Queensland, in 1998. Cristina was a member of the Council of the International Society for Equitation Science (ISES) from 2011 to 2019. She is a co-author of 8 journal articles including ‘The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human-Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare’.