Organizations for Animal Welfare & Advocacy Research

Explore organizations that conduct pivotal research in animal advocacy:

• Faunalytics: Offers original research and a comprehensive library of academic research summaries. Check out their replication guide to learn how you can replicate some of their impactful studies in a different country or region.

  • Research And Data As Tools In Advocates’ Decision-Making

• Bryant Research: A team of researchers using their expertise in social science, market research, and policy analysis to help mainstream meat reduction and alternative proteins.

• PHAIR Society (Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations): Advances and promotes scientific research and education on a wide range of topics related to how people perceive, treat, and interact with non-human animals, including the consumption of plant-based vs. animal-derived products, animal advocacy, and veganism.

• RECAP (Research to End Consumption of Animal Products: a group of social science researchers from academia, research institutes, and NGOs who share the goal of ending animal product consumption.

• Sentience Institute: Meta-level research dedicated to effective animal advocacy.

  • Summary of Evidence for Foundational Questions in Effective Animal Advocacy

• Open Philanthropy’s Social Science Research Topics for Animal Welfare.

• Fish Welfare Initiative: Collaborates with corporations, governments, and producers to improve fish welfare standards and practices by researching the most promising ways of improving fish welfare and enabling stakeholders to do so.