Speaker bio page for Dr Lauren Finka

Bio

Dr Lauren Finka is a feline welfare and behaviour scientist and works within the research team at Cats Protection. Her role includes leading across three key research streams that aim to develop and validate practical cat welfare tools to support stakeholders caring for shelter cats, cats in the home and unowned free-living cats. Lauren has previously held various consultancy and academic research positions covering areas such as the development of novel methods for pain recognition in cats via facial expressions, optimising human-cat interactions, practical application of research for cat welfare improvement in shelters and science communication.