Assistant/Associate Professor in Swine Welfare
Posted in: Uncategorized by admin on June 4, 2015
Applications are invited for a tenure track faculty position as an Ethologist with a focus on swine at the University of Saskatchewan. The position will have an academic home and tenure track faculty appointment at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) and simultaneously hold the position of Research Scientist at Prairie Swine Centre. At Prairie Swine Centre, behaviour and welfare have been core areas of study since inception of the Centre (1992), and it is the only institution in Canada with a full-time ethologist focusing on pigs. The pork industry considers this unique position as fundamental to the growth and ongoing evolution of the science of pork production, with pork producers and packers/processors from across Canada providing significant financial support for the National Chair in Swine Welfare.
The full description of the posting can be found on out Careers page.
http://prairieswine.com/rsc/careers/
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