Upcoming Events

Sponsored Small Meeting at the Royal Entomological Society

The IWRS has provided a small meeting support grant for an in-person conference on insects as food and feed, held by the Royal Entomological Society, with input from their welfare and ethics and rearing special interest groups. The meeting will focus on bringing together the UK community focused on insects as protein to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with incorporating insects into the supply chain; one third of the day will be spent discussing how research on invertebrate welfare can progress to help UK farmers and the animals themselves. Dr. Andrew Crump will be a keynote speaker, and leader of the session, talking about farmed insect welfare. The event will be in person on 31 October from 09:30 - 16:30 British Time. Find out more, here.

Past Events

Sponsored Small Meeting: Symposium (Non-lethal study methods in conservation biology) at the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology

Power Analysis via Simulation Workshop with the UK Reproducibility Network (May 2024)

Sponsored Small Meeting: Workshop (Farmed invertebrate welfare: What do we know, and what’s left to find out?) with the Animal Welfare Research Network at the Royal Veterinary College (May 2024)

Insect Consciousness Session at the American Philosophical Society with the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (March 2024)

Workshop on the Ethical Treatment of Insects in Research at Entomological Society of America (November 2023) and Royal Entomological Society’s Ento 23 (September 2023)

Early Career Meetup with the Animal Welfare Research Network (July 2023)