On Thursday 15 February at 7pm, expert guests will be joining World Horse Welfare for a webinar discussing equine sleep and sleep deprivation. Dr Sebastian McBride and Dr Linda Greening will be exploring the importance of sleep, potential causes of sleep deprivation, signs of sleep deprivation and the consequences of long-term sleep deprivation on the health and welfare of horses.
Register on Zoom to ask questions live. Sebastian and Linda will be on hand to answer your sleep-related questions during the Q&A session. Register for the session online.
World Horse Welfare’s incredibly popular webinars have grown to over 50 thought-provoking subjects, and all are free to view on our newly updated World Horse Welfare Advice Pages. Topics this year have included diverse themes, such as social media, horse welfare, managing arthritic changes in ridden horses, understanding aggression, nutrition myths and marketing.
Dr Sebastian McBride is a Liverpool (BSc) and Edinburgh (PhD) graduate who first took up a lectureship position at Aberystwyth in 1996 in what was the Institute of Rural Sciences. He left the Institute in 2005 to extend his research interests in cognitive robotics in the Department of Computer Science (Aberystwyth) and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He returned to Aberystwyth University in 2016 to take up an appointment as a lecturer in Biosciences.
Dr Linda Greening joined Hartpury as a junior lecturer in the equine department in 2006, after successfully completing a Master’s degree in equine science and is currently head of inclusivity. Throughout her time at Hartpury, Linda has continued to lecture around the topic of equine behaviour and welfare and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in this area while conducting her own research into equine nocturnal (sleep) behaviour, leading to a doctoral qualification in 2023.
Externally, she chairs the EDIA committee for the International Society of Applied Ethology and the British Ethnic Riders Forum (BERF) Landex Outreach Collaboration (BLOC) Project. She also sits on the BHS EDI advisory committee and is the education liaison officer for the BERF.
