The 38th International Congress of the ISAE
Helsinki, Finland, August 3-7 2004
http://www.isae2004.org

Workshop 8: The interface between Social Science and Animal Science

The International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) covers all applied aspects of ethology and other behavioural sciences, which are relevant to many human-animal interactions. The ISAE is promoting research and education into the behaviour and welfare of farm, laboratory, companion and zoo animals. An international scientific congress is organized yearly in different countries. The 38th congress will be held 3-7 August 2004 in Helsinki, Finland, where the latest results in applied ethology research will be presented. This year one of the workshops focuses on the interface between social and animal science and we wish to also invite social scientists to this workshop.

Only rarely are the issues of human-animal interaction studied by both social scientist and animal scientist together, in spite of the many benefits that may derive from interdisciplinary efforts. The reason may be that social and animal scientists too often seem to live in two different worlds, with different conceptions of knowledge and different scientific methods.

The workshop "Interface between Social Science and Animal Science" aims to create an arena for social and animal scientists to discuss their knowledge and experiences of studying common issues. In addition to the established studies of animal production, there are examples of new fields where social and animal sciences are interacting. Some animal scientists are using methods from the toolbox of social scientists, such as questionnaires, surveys or interviews, while some social scientists define research questions that also could be those of animal scientists, such as the human-animal relationship or the significance of animals in human life. Animals can for example function as treatment for sick or handicapped persons.

In the workshop "Interface of social and animal sciences" we are calling for papers discussing for example the following issues:

- Experiences of the interface between the social and animal scientist: examples of multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or integrated research;
- The challenges of animal production in the development of a sustainable society and the interrelationships between the ecological, economical and social dimensions of sustainability;
- Aspects of the human-animal relationship relating to both fields of science;
- Changing social conditions and the human-animal interaction.
 

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