Alison Small

Background

About Alison Small

Alison Small is a principal research scientist at the CSIRO McMaster Laboratory in Armidale, NSW, leading livestock welfare research in a number of areas including neonatal development and survival, alternatives to painful husbandry procedures, pain mitigation for livestock, and humane slaughter. Between 2006 and 2010 she was a Research Scientist and Meat Industry Adviser at the CSIRO Meat Research Institute in Cannon Hill, QLD, providing scientific support to the Australian Red Meat Industry across food safety, quality, shelf-life and processing technologies. Alison graduated as a veterinarian from the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1993 and spent 12 years working in mixed, mainly livestock practice. She holds a PhD from the University of Bristol, UK, a Graduate Certificate in Food Safety Risk Assessment from the University of Maryland, USA, and was a founding member of the European College of Veterinary Public Health.