Dr Lynne U. Sneddon

Senior Lecturer

Overview

Dr Lynne Sneddon is a senior lecturer in animal management and teaches a variety of modules in animal behaviour, physiology and research methods. She is module leader for Applied Ethology and Behavioural Ecology. Lynne graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BSc (Hons) in marine biology and gained a Ph.D from the University of Glasgow in animal behaviour and physiology.

Teaching

Subsequently she undertook postdoctoral research in fish behaviour and physiology at the University of Manchester and the Roslin Institute and held a NERC fellowship for 5 years at the University of Liverpool. Prior to this, she held a lectureship in marine biology at Liverpool but now is employed by the University of Chester and had an active research and teaching portfolio in fish behaviour and welfare.

Research

Lynne's research interest focus is on understanding the mechanisms of behaviour in fish and crustaceans using a plethora of neurobiological, physiological and molecular techniques. She was the first to demonstrate pain perception in fish and that personality in fish was dependent upon positive and negative experiences.

Her research addresses fundamentally important questions in aggression, dominance, fear and stress which are relevant to improving fish welfare. She supervises a number of Ph.D students and has received support from BBSRC, NERC, the Leverhulme Trust, The Royal Society of London, NC3Rs and UFAW.

Published work

She is currently a member of BBSRC's Animal Sciences Panel (2006-2009) and was a member of NERC Peer Review College (2005-2008). Lynne has considerable expertise in animal welfare and is a working group member writing documents for EFSA, ILAR (National Academies of Science USA), and ECVAM.

She is an Ethical Reviewer for the journal Animal Behaviour, a member of the Ethical Committee for ASAB and is an assistant editor for Applied Animal Behaviour Science.

  • Predator.dom.pdf
  • Personality plasticity.pdf
  • Briffa & Sneddon.pdf
  • FishesPain.pdf   

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