Claire Lorraine Corridan has a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery from the University of Glasgow and a Doctorate in Animal Behaviour & Welfare from the University of Lincoln. She is a Level 3 Fear Free Practitioner and Foundation Practitioner in Veterinary Acupuncture. Claire has spent 25 years as a small animal veterinary clinician and set up a first opinion and human: animal bond centred veterinary practice in Scotland. Relocating for family reasons, Claire currently sees veterinary behaviour referral cases in Ireland, and works on a part- time basis, as a Research Manager in Animal Welfare and Ethics, at University College Dublin. Claire founded and currently chairs the Irish Veterinary Behaviour Association (IVBA) and she is a board member for the Irish Foster Care Association (IFCA). Claire's research interests are the human: animal bond, the link between inter- personal violence and animal cruelty, animal welfare, ethics and law and veterinary behavioural medicine.

Susan completed her PhD at the Manchester Metropolitan University studying the Psychology of human-animal attachment in 2007. She was then granted a 3 year Research Fellowship by MMU to investigate the psychology of human-companion animal attachments in relation to terminal prognosis veterinary euthanasia. She then moved to the University of Manchester to complete her MEd (psychology of Education with GBC). Susan is an HCPC Registered Highly Specialist Counselling Psychologist working with Children and Young People in Complex Safeguarding. Susan also founded Animalkind.

Siobhan Mullan graduated from the University of Glasgow Veterinary School and worked in both mixed and small animal practice before joining the Animal Welfare and Behaviour Research Group at the University of Bristol Veterinary School. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Farm Animal Science Faculty, at the University of Bristol. Her PhD examined the feasibility and benefits of including some animal-based welfare assessments within UK pig farm assurance schemes. She has done some work for the Organic Research Centre on a project called AssureWel (Advancing Animal Welfare Assurance). Her role in the AssureWel project was to provide scientific guidance on the best forms of animal welfare assessment to ensure the validity of the approaches taken by the Soil Association and RSPCA schemes. Her research interests include farm animal welfare, veterinarians, welfare programs, lameness, dairy cows, and grazing cattle studies.