Contact

• workRoom A04 Gateway Building
  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• Emily.Haddy@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Emily conducted a PhD at the University of Portsmouth investigating the factors, both environmental and human, that impact working equid welfare. Her other qualifications include an MSc in Social Research Methods (University of Southampton) and a BSc in Conservation Biology and Ecology (University of Exeter) with a year at Montana State University. Emily completed two postdoc positions in working equid welfare before starting at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University of Nottingham in February 2026.

Expertise Summary

Emily's expertise is in animal welfare, including aspects such as: human-animal interactions and human attitudes towards animals, social science approaches to animal welfare, animal welfare assessment, evaluation of animal welfare initiatives and organisational analysis of NGOs.

Research Summary

Emily is currently conducting research on the welfare of unowned cats in the UK.

Recent Publications

• HADDY, EMILY, SING'OEI, OBADIAH, KOSORE, CHARLES, LEWIS, KATE, BOWYER, CRESSIDA and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2025. Ingestion of terrestrial plastic pollution by free-roaming livestock, including working donkeys: An interdisciplinary assessment Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. 3(e42),
• HADDY, EMILY, PROOPS, LEANNE, BRADLEY, TAMSIN, BOWYER, CRESSIDA and SING'OEI, OBADIAH, 2025. Forum theatre as a tool to promote positive donkey welfare on Lamu Island, Kenya Animal Welfare. 34(e16),
• HADDY, EMILY, PROOPS, LEANNE, BURDEN, FAITH, RAW, ZOE, KAMINSKI, JULIANE and BROWN, JULIA, 2024. “We forgot about the donkeys!” An institutional analysis of the shift in animal welfare from direct implementation towards advocacy-based programming Animal Welfare. 33(e9),
• HADDY, EMILY, BROWN, JULIA, BURDEN, FAITH, RAW, ZOE, KAMINSKI, JULIANE and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2023. Sustainability in NGO Programming: A Case Study of Working Equid Welfare Organizations SAGE Open. 13(4),

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Past Research

Emily's past research has focussed on the welfare of working equids (donkeys, mules and horses) internationally. Her work has covered topics including: human-equid interactions and human attitudes towards animals, animal welfare assessment, environmental determinants of equid welfare, evaluation of equid welfare initiatives, organisational analysis of NGOs, arts-based methods for community engagement in animal welfare, the contribution of donkeys to community drought resilience in Eastern Africa & the impacts of plastic pollution on livestock welfare.

• HADDY, EMILY, SING'OEI, OBADIAH, KOSORE, CHARLES, LEWIS, KATE, BOWYER, CRESSIDA and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2025. Ingestion of terrestrial plastic pollution by free-roaming livestock, including working donkeys: An interdisciplinary assessment Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. 3(e42),
• HADDY, EMILY, PROOPS, LEANNE, BRADLEY, TAMSIN, BOWYER, CRESSIDA and SING'OEI, OBADIAH, 2025. Forum theatre as a tool to promote positive donkey welfare on Lamu Island, Kenya Animal Welfare. 34(e16),
• HADDY, EMILY, PROOPS, LEANNE, BURDEN, FAITH, RAW, ZOE, KAMINSKI, JULIANE and BROWN, JULIA, 2024. “We forgot about the donkeys!” An institutional analysis of the shift in animal welfare from direct implementation towards advocacy-based programming Animal Welfare. 33(e9),
• HADDY, EMILY, BROWN, JULIA, BURDEN, FAITH, RAW, ZOE, KAMINSKI, JULIANE and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2023. Sustainability in NGO Programming: A Case Study of Working Equid Welfare Organizations SAGE Open. 13(4),
• HADDY, EMILY, BURDEN, FAITH, RAW, ZOE, RODRIGUES, JOAO, ZAPPI BELLO, HUMBERTO, BROWN, JULIA, KAMINSKI, JULIANE and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2023. Belief in Animal Sentience and Affective Owner Attitudes are linked to Positive Working Equid Welfare across Six Countries Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. 28(1), 116-134
• HADDY, EMILY, BROWN, JULIA, BURDEN, FAITH, RAW, ZOE, KAMINSKI, JULIANE and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2022. “What can we do to actually reach all these animals?” Evaluating approaches to improving working equid welfare PLoS ONE. 17(9),
• HADDY, EMILY, BURDEN, FAITH, FERNANDO-MARTINEZ, JOSE ANTONIO, LEGARIA-RAMIREZ, DAFNE, RAW, ZOE, BROWN, JULIA, KAMINSKI, JULIANE and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2021. Evaluation of long-term welfare initiatives on working equid welfare and social transmission of knowledge in Mexico PLoS ONE. 15(5),
• HADDY, EMILY, BURDEN, FAITH, ZAPPI BELLO, HUMBERTO, PRADO-ORTIZ, OMAR, RAW, ZOE and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2021. Comparison of working equid welfare across three regions of Mexico Equine Veterinary Journal. 53(4), 763-770
• HADDY, EMILY, RODRIGUES, JOAO, RAW, ZOE, BURDEN, FAITH and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2020. Documenting the welfare and role of working equids in rural communities of Portugal and Spain Animals. 10(5),
• HADDY, EMILY, BURDEN, FAITH and PROOPS, LEANNE, 2019. Shelter seeking behaviour of healthy donkeys and mules in a hot climate Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 222,