Huw Golledge is Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director at the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), UK. He has served as a member of the UK Animals in Science Committee which advises the government on the use of animals in research. Claire Richardson has over twenty years of experience in the field of laboratory animal welfare and has worked as a laboratory animal veterinarian as well as an animal welfare scientist. She is a member of the editorial team at the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), UK.