The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) is a piece of enabling legislation that allows researchers to carry out scientific experiments and tests using animals that may cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm, which would otherwise be a breach of the Animal Welfare Act …
Concordat on Openness News (October 2018)
New signatories This year we have welcomed the MHRA, Swansea University, University of Brighton, PTEN Research, and University of Hertfordshire as Concordat signatories, bringing the total number to 121. Manchester’s virtual lab tour This year the University of Manchester created a virtual tour of its animal unit. With eleven rooms and sixteen videos, …
Guide to writing non-technical summaries
Concordat on Openness News (January 2018)
The second instalment of the Concordat on Openness newsletter is now available to download. Signatories have been busy launching annual reports, taking part in social media campaigns, updating their websites, and press releasing their animal statistics. Last month UAR hosted the 81st Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture …
Concordat Annual Report, Openness Awards, and Paget Lecture 2017
On 4th December 2017, UAR hosted the fourth annual Openness Awards and 81st Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture. Dr Judy MacArthur Clark presented the Internal or Sector Engagement Award to the Babraham Institute for its partnership with the Sophianum School in Netherlands. Students had to design and create …
Concordat on Openness News (August 2017)
Public Debates on Animal Research
Wow, that’s a great example of Openness – I wish my institution could / would do that!
How do you hear about good examples from other institutions? People from different institutions have different experiences of hearing about what’s going on. Often relies on one person within an institution being ‘plugged in’ to what’s going on externally. Communication (externally) can often be 1:1. Depends …
Public / supporter engagement with animal research
The group primarily discussed public/supporter engagement in relation to events and open days. A couple of useful themes arose when considering future engagement around animal research: It was generally considered not appropriate to deliver activity based solely around the topic of animal research, which can end …