Professor Madeleine Campbell BVetMed (Hons) MA (Oxon) MA (Keele) PGCert (Vet Ed) PhD DipECAR DipECAWBM (AWSEL) FHEA FRCVS

 

Professor Madeleine Campbell is a Veterinary Surgeon and an EBVS® Veterinary Specialist and a RCVS Recognised Specialist in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. She was the first veterinary surgeon to be awarded a Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Bioethics, which she used to investigate ethical issues surrounding the use of reproductive technologies in non-human mammals.

Madeleine is Professor of Veterinary Ethics at Nottingham University School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, and runs her own consultancy, Empathy Veterinary Ethics. She Chairs the British Veterinary Association’s Ethics and Welfare Advisory Panel and sits on Ethics Review Panels for organisations including the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the Zoological Society of London.

Madeleine’s main focus of current research is on the ethics surrounding the use of animals in competitive sport. In 2020/21, Madeleine developed and published the Ethical Framework for the Use of Horses in Sport Animals 2021. In 2021/22, she led the development and publication of the Greyhound Board of Great Britain’s new Welfare Strategy. In 2021, Madeleine was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of Veterinary Ethics.

Madeleine was recently invited by the FEI to join the Equine Ethics and Well-Being Commission to address the involvement of horses in sport, as the veterinary member of the Commission.