08:45 Registration & coffee
09:00 Benedict Rattigan (Schweitzer Institute) - Welcome & Introduction
09:10 Dr Stephen M. Gardiner (2026 Schweitzer Fellow, Peterhouse)
Research presentation: the Schweitzer Fellowship and Dr Gardiner’s current work
09:35 Rachel Hevesi (Wild Futures)
Topic: Campaigning to ban the primate pet trade in the UK – twenty-five years and counting
10.20 Edie Bowles (The Animal Law Foundation)
"Putting Animals Back Into The Animal Welfare Act"
11.00 Tea/coffee break
11.30 Professor Jane Holder (UCL)
Topic: Lessons from environmental law: animal welfare impact assessments and the Animal Sentience Committee (ASC)
12.15 Dr Bidda Jone/Dr Jed Goodfellow (Australian Alliance for Animals)
Topic: The emergence of a proposal for an Australian Animal Welfare Commission on to the national policy agenda
13.00 Vegan Lunch in Tamburlaine Restaurant
14.00 Professor Christine Nicol (RVC and ASC) and Professor Anna Meredith OBE (Keele University and ASC)
“From Sentience to Scrutiny: the Establishment, Work and (Emerging) Impact of the Animal Sentience Committee”
14.40 Gisella Marinuzzi (The Schweitzer Institute)
Topic: Gaps in UK Animal Welfare Governance Architecture and the Case for an Animal Protection Commission
15.25 Tea/coffee break
15.45 All speakers and participants
Chairperson: Dr Dan Lyons (Centre for Animals & Social Justice)
Participatory plenary: From diagnosis to action — what should effective animal protection governance look like?
16.30 Benedict Rattigan
Closing reflections and next steps
16.40 Conference ends
17.30 Post-conference drinks (196 Bar, Mill Rd – 15 Minute walk from conference)
Conference venue: The Marlowe Room, Clayton Hotel, 27-29 Station Rd, Cambridge CB1 2FB
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