I am a fourth-year MBiol student particularly interested in animal welfare, wildlife behaviour and conservation monitoring. I’m completing my Master’s project with WildCRU where my research will focus on exploring whether camera-trap images and videos can be used to reliably assess the welfare of wild animals. My project involves adapting welfare indicators commonly used for captive and domestic animals such as body condition, visible injuries, posture and behaviour and testing to determine how reliably these indicators can be detected across different carnivore and herbivore species in African camera-trap datasets.

By evaluating which indicators are consistently visible and reliable, I hope to identify those that could form the basis of practical welfare-monitoring tools and contribute to earlier conservation interventions. Ultimately this could also support the development of automated, AI based welfare detection systems.