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Bits Bite: The Plight of Sport Horses
In this provocative poetic essay, James Garnham — the pen name of Professor Emeritus David Mellor — indicts a sport that has infl...
What’s it like to be a bat? Scientists develop new...
We assess animal welfare by measuring stress hormones, counting behaviours, and checking for disease. But what's missing is a way ...
From Telos to Teleonome: A New Way to Understand H...
You've seen it. The horse pacing the fence line, wearing a track in the ground. The one who calls out, again and again, when stabl...
How to Judge Equine Welfare Research: What Horse P...
Horse people are often told a practice is “evidence-based” — but how can you tell whether research truly puts horses’ welfare firs...
Equine Ethology: The Horse In Context
Wild and free-living horses offer vital reference points for hoof health, showing how terrain, movement, and social life shape bot...
So You Think it’s a Moment in Time?
When uncomfortable images of horses are dismissed as “just moments in time,” photographer Crispin Parelius Johannessen asks what h...
When welfare becomes culture: patching the leaky b...
Why do welfare problems persist in horse sport despite growing knowledge and regulation? Drawing on a webinar by Lisa Ashton, this...
From Principles to Practice: How Riding Schools ar...
Across the UK, riding schools are rethinking welfare from the horse’s perspective. The Riding School Futures Project shows how int...