Our team
The Welfare Footprint Institute is organised around a Board of Directors and four departments. Together they develop the Welfare Footprint Framework, apply it to the questions that matter most for animals, and help others use it well.
Board of directors
The Welfare Footprint Institute’s board of directors provides strategic guidance, drawing on decades of collective experience. The board unites experts in animal welfare, evolutionary biology, global health, data analysis, philosophy and program management to advance the institute’s mission of quantifying animal welfare impacts to inform decision-making through rigorous research and analysis.
Departments
Research department
The Research Department helps refine the analytical methods and applies the Welfare Footprint Framework. It reviews the evidence and produces welfare impact analysis and Welfare Footprints.
Research groups
Research is organised in Research Groups, each headed by a Senior Researcher. Each group also brings in other researchers and collaborators according to the project.
Poultry welfare
Mammal welfare
Aquatic animal welfare
Innovation department
The Innovation Department develops the methods and builds the digital and AI infrastructure that lets the Welfare Footprint Framework be applied efficiently, consistently and at scale.
Dissemination and engagement
The Dissemination and Engagement Department makes Welfare Footprint evidence useful to those who can act on it, builds partnerships, research collaborations, sector-specific use cases, teaching and self-help resources. It also runs the Research Network, which connects researchers who apply, review and extend the framework.
Teams
Research network
Operations
The Operations Department keeps the Institute running so that its scientists can focus on research. Operations are delivered in partnership with Outcapped.
Join WFI
If you want to help measure what matters most to animals and turn that evidence into real change, we'd love to hear from you.
