Refinement: housing, handling and enrichment

Join us in this episode as we speak with Emma Robinson, a professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Bristol with extensive experience in animal research. She unpacks the regulations surrounding animal research, offering a scientist’s view on animal rights activism, ethical tension, and why this work remains essential. Robinson also delves into the emerging intersection of psychedelics and animal research, describing how these substances are studied and how they might help reshape mental illness.

• Professor Emma Robinson
• UK Government’s Roadmap to Ending Animal Testing
• PETA Confrontation
• Cognitive and affective models of psychedelics in rodents
• Psilocybin
• Ketamine
• British Neuroscience lecture with Prof Robinson and Prof Nutt
• The 3Hs Initiative