Dr John Eddison
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Dr John Eddison

Honorary Associate Professor

School of Biological and Marine Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Biography

Biography

Programme leader, MSc Zoo Conservation Biology
Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes, School of Biomedical & Biological Sciences

Qualifications

Director, Postgraduate Taught Programmes, School of Biomedical & Biological Sciences 2004-present

Principal lecturer in Applied Ethology, University of Plymouth 2002-present

Senior lecturer, Seale-Hayne College/Polytechnic South West/University of Plymouth 1983-2002

Research Fellow, School of Agriculture, Edinburgh University 1980-1983

PhD Effect of temperature fluctuations on ecological diversity of protozoan communities. University of Aberdeen 1981

BSc Zoology University of Leeds 1976

Associate member, Science Department, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park (www.paigntonzoo.org.uk)

Professional membership

Chartered biologist, Society of Biology (www.societyofbiology.org)

International Society for Applied Ethology (www.applied-ethology.org)

Roles on external bodies

1995-2000: Communications Officer and Council Member, International Society for Applied Ethology
2000-present: Expert (1st tier), Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (specialist in injuries and/or deaths caused by livestock)
2004-present: Editorial Board Member, Applied Animal Behaviour Science
2008-2018: Member, Zoos Forum (renamed Zoos Expert Committee): the independent body that advises Defra on zoo licensing and policy matters; animal welfare specialist

2013-2015: Defra appointed independent member of Research Project Steering Group: Development of Welfare Assessment toolbox for captive elephants.

2015-present: Member, Animal Welfare Working Group, ANSES (Agence Nationale de Securité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail), France 

Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

My current areas of teaching include all aspects of animal behaviour and welfare as applied to the management of both farmed livestock and conservation of wild species. This involvement is at both undergraduate and postgraduate (taught Masters) level.

Staff serving as external examiners

2006-2009 School of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol: BSc Animal Welfare and Behaviour

2013-2017 Hartpury Faculty, University of West of England: Animal & Land Sciences subject & award examiner
2014-2018: Writtle College, University of Essex: Animal Sciences and Animal Management subject & award examiner

Research

Research

Research interests

Behaviour and welfare of captive animals: both farm livestock and those in captivity within zoos and wildlife parks

My particular interests have two foci:

1. The interactions between animals and their captive environment, and how those interactions affect their welfare.

2. A holistic approach to the issues associated with the transport of livestock from farm to abattoir. This includes considerations of both the effect of different journey structures on animal welfare and also the impact that the economics of meat marketing has on the marketing decisions made by livestock producers. This research has been carried out both in the United Kingdom and in Greece.

Other research

Refereed conference contributions

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2004) Factors that influence the dairy cow farmers in Cornwall (U.K) to select a marketing channel. In: Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the British Society of Animal Science. York, U.K.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2004) The impact of farm/farmer's characteristics on marketing channel selection by sheep farmers in Cornwall in U.K. In: Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the British Society of Animal Science. York, U.K.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2004) The Marketing Strategies that are followed by the dairy cow farmers in the County of Cornwall in U.K. In: Annual Conference the Agricultural Economics Society. London, UK.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A., Eddison, J. and Tsourgiannis, C.A. (2004) The impact of farm and farmer's characteristics on the selection of a marketing strategy by the sheep farmers in UK. In: IX World Congress of Rural Sociology. Trondheim, Norway.

Tsourgiannis, L., Eddison, J., Errington, A. and Warren, M. (2004) The development of strategic grouping profiles of sheep and goat farmers in Greece regarding milk marketing strategies. In: The future of the sheep and goat dairy sectors. Zaragoza, Spain.

Tsourgiannis, L., Eddison, J., Errington, A. and Warren, M. (2004) The development of strategic groups of sheep and goat farmers in Greece regarding milk marketing strategies. In: The future of the sheep and goat dairy sectors. Zaragoza, Spain.

Tsourgiannis, L., Eddison, J., Errington, A. and Warren, M. (2004) Factors affecting the milk marketing channel selection by the sheep and goat farmers in Greece. In: The future of the sheep and goat dairy sectors. Zaragoza, Spain.

Tsourgiannis, C.A., Brooks, P.H., Eddison, J. and Tsourgiannis, L. (2003) Differences on growth performance of piglets weaned at 3, 4 and 5 weeks of age. In: First International Congress of Livestock, Dairy and Meat Processing Industry and Marketing. Antalya, Turkey.

Tsourgiannis, C.A., Brooks, P.H., Eddison, J. and Tsourgiannis, L. (2003) Differences on growth performance of piglets weaned at 3, 4 and 5 weeks of age. In: Proceedings of the 9th World Conference in Animal Production. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Tsourgiannis, C.A., Brooks, P.H., Eddison, J. and Tsourgiannis, L. (2003) Relationship between pre- and post-weaning feeding behaviour of piglets weaned at 3, 4 and 5 weeks of age. In: Proceedings of the 9th World Conference in Animal Production. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Tsourgiannis, C.A., Tsourgiannis, L., Brooks, P.H. and Eddison, J. (2003) The effect of diet and the environment on the incidence of biting behaviour by liquid fed rearing pigs. In: Proceedings of the 9th World Conference in Animal Production. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Tsourgiannis, C.A., Tsourgiannis, L., Brooks, P.H. and Eddison, J. (2003) Effect of dietary salt (NaCl) level on the growing performance and water usage of liquid fed growing - finishing pigs. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium of Animal Production and Natural Resources Utilization in the Mediterranean Mountain Areas. Ioannina, Greece.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2003) Development of strategic grouping profiles of sheep and goat producers in Greece regarding livestock marketing strategies. In: Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of Animal Production. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2003) The development of strategic groups of sheep and goat farmers in Greece regarding livestock marketing. In: Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of Animal Production. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2003) The factors affecting the selection of marketing channels of sheep and goat milk producers in Greece. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium of Animal Production and Natural Resources Utilization in the Mediterranean Mountain Areas. Ioannina, Greece.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2003) Factors affecting the selection of milk marketing strategies of sheep and goat producers in Greece. In: First International Congress of Livestock, Dairy and Meat Processing Industry and Marketing. Antalya, Turkey.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2003) The livestock marketing strategies that sheep and goat farmers use in Greece. In: First International Congress of Livestock, Dairy and Meat Processing Industry and Marketing. Antalya, Turkey.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2003) Marketing Strategies of Agricultural Producers in Objective One Regions: Factors affecting the marketing channels of sheep and goat producers in Greece regarding livestock and milk marketing. In: Annual Conference, the Agricultural Economics Society. Plymouth, UK.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2003) The milk marketing strategies that are followed by sheep and goat farmers in Greece. In: First International Congress of Livestock, Dairy and Meat Processing Industry and Marketing. Antalya, Turkey.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2002) Marketing Strategies of Agricultural Producers in Objective One Regions: A comparative study between Greece and United Kingdom. In: Proceedings of the 10th European Association of Agricultural Economics Congress. Zaragoza Spain.

Eddison, J.C., Murray, K.L. and Davies, D.H. (2000) The economics of meat procurement, welfare assurance and animal welfare: a conceptual model. In: 34th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology. pp. 130. ed. A. Ramos, L. C. Pinheiro Machado and M. J. Hötzel. UFSC, Laboratory of Applied Ethology. Florianopolis, Brazil.

Rutter, S.M., Tainton, V., Champion, R.A., Eddison, J.C. and Le Grice, P. (2000) The behaviour of cows following a total solar eclipse: Shedding new light on the control of diurnal pattrens of grazing behaviour. In: 34th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology. pp. 190. ed. A. Ramos, L. C. Pinheiro Machado and M. J. Hötzel. UFSC, Laboratory of Applied Ethology. Florianopolis, Brazil.

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Since 1999

2001 K.C. Murray PhD

2002 D.H. Davies PhD

2003 R.P. Lane MPhil
2006 C.A. Tsourgiannis PhD

2007 D. Tsigkros MPhil
2007 A. Abdullah PhD
2008 L. Tsourgiannis PhD

Publications

Publications

Journals

Refereed publications (since 1999)

Mormede, P., Boisseau-Sowinski, L., Chiron, J., Diederich, C., Eddison, J., Guichet, J.-L., Le Neindre, P. and Meunier-Saläun, M.-C. 2018. Bien-être animal : contexte, définition et évaluation INRA Productions Animales 31: 145-162.

Tsourgiannis, L., Warren, M., Karasavvoglou, A. and Eddison, J. (2012) Marketing strategies for the primary sector: an empirical study. European Research Studies 15: 147-178.

Tsourgiannis, L., Karasavvoglou, A., Eddison, J. and Warren, M. (2010) Profiles of dairy cow farmers' marketing strategies in the county of Cornwall in the UK. Intellectual Economics 2: 57-73.

Tsourgiannis, L., Eddison, J. & Warren, M.F. (2008) Factors affecting the marketing channel choice of sheep and goat farmers in the region of east Macedonia in Greece regarding the distribution of their milk production. Small Ruminant Research 79:87-97.

Tsourgiannis, L., Eddison, J., Warren, M.F. & Errington, A. (2006) Profiles of sheep and goat farmers' marketing strategy in the region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Greece. Journal of Farm Management 12: 443-463.

Tsourgiannis, L., Errington, A. and Eddison, J. (2005) Marketing Strategies of Agricultural Producers in Objective One Regions: The Factors Affecting the Selection of Marketing Channels of Sheep and Goat Producers Regarding the Milk and Livestock Marketing in Greece. Cahiers Options Méditerranéennes 64: 307-320.

Horrell, R.I., A'Ness, P.J., Edwards, S.A. and Eddison, J.C. (2001) The use of nose-rings in pigs: consequences for rooting, other functional activities, and welfare. Animal Welfare 10: 3-22.

Burke, J., Brooks, P.H., Kirk, J.A. and Eddison, J.C. (2000) Daily feed intakes and feeding strategies of sows fed ad libitum and allocated to two different space allowances in a communal farrowing system over parturition and lactation. Animal Science 71: 547-559.

Murray, K.C., Davies, D.H., Cullinane, S.L., Eddison, J.C. and Kirk, J.A. (2000) Taking lambs to the slaughter: marketing channels, journey structures and possible implications for animal welfare. Animal Welfare 9: 111-122.


Books

Eddison, J.C. (2000) Quantitative Investigations in the Biosciences using Minitab. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton 458 pp.

Chapters

Eddison, J.C. (2003) Animal Welfare. In: The Agricultural Notebook. ed. R. J. Soffe. Blackwell Science, Oxford. pp. 431-441

Personal

Personal

Links

www.paigntonzoo.org.uk
www.societyof biology.org
www.applied-ethology.org