Trudi is a Certified Equine Behaviour Consultant with the IAABC and a member of their Application Review Committee. She is also an Accredited Animal Behaviourist with the ABTC offering in-person and online consultations. Trudi has been offering her own unique blend of classical dressage and positive reinforcement since the ’90s. She specialises in developing behaviour change by creating low stress learning environments. Trudi presents clinics, talks, and workshops in person throughout the UK and webinars and courses online around the world. She contributes to Your Horse magazine and the peer reviewed IAABC Journal. She hosts the behaviour and training podcast ‘Lead a Horse to Water’.

On-Demand Courses

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRAINING HORSES WITH FOOD

HOW TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL TRAINING PLAN

TRAIN YOUR HORSE TO: WAIT

UNDERSTAND HORSES LIVE 2022

WHEN POSITIVE BECOMES TOXIC

Instructor-Led Courses

HORSE TRAINER FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE

UNDERSTAND CLICKER TRAINING FOR HORSES

Webinar

BETTER BEGINNINGS - BUILDING RESILIENCE IN YOUNG HORSES

EQUINE BEHAVIOURIST OR TRAINER?

Justine is the founder of Understand Horses and has been practicing as a horse behaviour consultant since 2007. She is a Certified Equine Behaviour Consultant with the IAABC, the organisation’s UK Co-Chair and a member of the Application Review Committee. She is also a registered Accredited Animal Behaviourist and Trustee of the Animal Behaviour & Training Council. Justine is a visiting lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Equine Behavioural Science degree at ARU Writtle (formerly Writtle University College) and also acts as an expert consultant in court cases involving equine behaviour. She holds lectures and workshops around the UK and regularly contributes to a wide variety of international publications – either writing articles, commenting or answering specific questions about horse behaviour and training.

On-Demand Courses

UNDERSTAND EQUINE BODY LANGUAGE

UNDERSTAND HORSE BEHAVIOUR

UNDERSTAND HORSES LIVE 2022

Instructor-Led Courses

HORSE BEHAVIOUR CONSULTING MENTORSHIP

UNDERSTANDING AND ASSESSING EQUINE PAIN

Webinars

AN INTRODUCTION TO HORSE BEHAVIOUR CONSULTING

STABLING AND BOX REST SURVIVAL GUIDE

EQUINE BEHAVIOURIST OR TRAINER?

Part neuroscientist, part horse fanatic, Emma is fascinated by the equine brain and how horses perceive and respond to their world. Emma has 32 years’ experience with horses, having been lucky enough to have been riding since she was four and to have had four wonderful family horses since the age of 12. Emma has studied horses to master’s level, read a degree in neuroscience and obtained a PhD in neuropsychology; she has also ridden in affiliated competitions, worked on professional yards, directed an equine learning centre, taught riding, helped many people with their horse’s behaviour and, more importantly than all of that combined, she has come to love equines not for what they can do for us, but for the wonderful creatures they are in their own right.

On-Demand Courses

GREY MATTERS! UNDERSTANDING THE EQUINE BRAIN

WORKING WITH FEAR AND TRAUMA IN HORSES

Instructor-Led Course

TRAUMA-INFORMED HORSE TRAINING CERTIFICATE

Webinar

UNDERSTAND ANXIETY, FEARS & PHOBIAS IN HORSES

Roxane Kirton BVMS MSc MRCVS is an equine vet who graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2005. She has spent most of her career working in the equine charity sector and it was the challenges of working with horses and ponies with histories of cruelty and neglect that started Roxane’s interest in equine behaviour. This led to her obtaining a MSc in Clinical Animal Behaviour with Distinction from the University of Lincoln in 2020. Her MSc research project was investigating the welfare impact of different grazing systems on outdoor living ponies. Roxane has a particular professional interest in the relationship between unwanted behaviours and physical health. In addition to continuing to work in the charity sector to improve the welfare of horses, Roxane also offers private behaviour and acupuncture consultations.

On-Demand Course

HOW CHRONIC PAIN AFFECTS BEHAVIOUR

Instructor-Led Course

UNDERSTANDING AND ASSESSING EQUINE PAIN

Webinars

BAD GIRLS? UNDERSTAND MARE BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS

RECOGNISING LAMENESS IN HORSES

Sam has been cataloguing and recording observations of feral horses since 2018. She is board chair of the Onaqui Catalogue Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to compiling observations on the Onaqui wild horses using citizen science. In particular, she is passionate about breaking down barriers surrounding scientific observation and interpretation for both professionals and laymen. To bring wild horses to the public, she teaches a course on wild horse behaviour at the University of Utah (USA). In particular, she is interested in how management, climate, and predation histories interact to affect horse heterarchies and band formation strategies. Sam is a member of IAABC and is working towards becoming a full time equine behaviour consultant, where she plans to integrate feral horse research and personal observations to aid owners with removed feral horses adapting to domestic settings.

On-Demand Course

BEST FRIENDS? AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOURS IN WILD HORSES

Webinars

INTERPRETING WILD HORSE BEHAVIOUR

PLAY IN HORSES - BENEFITS AND BEHAVIOURS

Rosa is an International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants (IAABC) Certified Equine Behaviour Consultant and registered with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC) as an Accredited Animal Behaviourist. She sits on the equine committee of the ABTC and is the ABTC behaviourist representative on the British Horse Society’s Equine Health and Welfare Advisory Committee, and is a contributor on the Understand Horses online education platform. She is a Senior Lecturer in Equine Behaviour and Nutrition at ARU Writtle (formerly Writtle University College) in Essex, where she leads the BSc (Hons) Equine Behavioural Science degree, educating future generations of equine behaviourists and conducting research in equine behaviour and welfare.

On-Demand Courses

AN INTRODUCTION TO HORSE NUTRITION

UNDERSTAND HORSES LIVE 2022

Holly Gallacher is an Equine Veterinary Physiotherapist, registered with the National Association of Veterinary Physiotherapists (NAVP). Holly received a BSc (Hons) in Equine Science, followed by a PgDip in Veterinary Physiotherapy from Harper Adams University in 2016. She has been around horses since the age of four and owned her lovely mare Roxy (above) for over 15 years. Professionally she enjoys working both in the field with her own private clients as well as being a university lecturer and teaching the next generation. Holly is passionate about improving horse welfare and has a particular interest in the link between pain and behaviour in equines.

Webinar

RECOGNISING LAMENESS IN HORSES

Jo Hockenhull is an animal welfare researcher, with a particular focus on the influence of human perceptions and attitudes on decision-making and animal welfare. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Bristol Vet School where she has two PhD students, one exploring the use of former racing thoroughbreds as EAS horses, and one investigating equine training practices. She joined The Donkey Sanctuary in 2023 as their Head of Research. Outside of work she has Irish cob Oscar on part loan. They have been together for 14 years since he arrived on the yard as a very gangly 4-year-old.

Nicola is a Principal Academic in Psychology from the Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University. She teaches psychology and neuroscience to undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervises several PhD students. She been conducting research into social cognition and face processing for over fifteen years, specialising in using eye tracking technology to examine visual attention in real-world social situations. She has published research on people with social anxiety, autism, and prosopagnosia (“faceblindness”), and about how particular psychological traits influence the way people see and respond to the social world. Nicola’s most recent research explores how humans perceive pain and emotions in horse faces and which human characteristics impact on this. Having loved horses since childhood, Nicola finally became a horse owner six years ago and has found her horses to be the most invaluable teachers ever since.

Dr Kelly Yarnell is a Principal Lecturer in Animal & Equine Science at NTU. Her PhD focussed on the behavioural and physiological assessment of stress in horses and included an investigation into the impact of horse housing upon equine welfare. Her current research projects include the continued assessment of equine housing for health and welfare and the application of medical technologies, novel diagnostics, and sustainable veterinary treatments, specifically in the gastrointestinal, ophthalmological and reproductive fields. Kelly also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of subjects in equine and animal science at NTU and was recently appointed as a Visiting Professor in Equine Science at Johnson & Wales University in the USA.