Tina M. Widowski, PhD is Professor of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare in the Department of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph.  She has spent over 30 years investigating how housing, transport and management practices affect the behaviour and welfare of farm animals.

Widowski served as Director of the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare and held the University Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph from 2009 – 2020. Since 2011 she has held the Egg Farmers of Canada Research Chair in Poultry Welfare. Her research group focuses mainly on developing best practices for housing and management of growing pullets and laying hens.

Dr. Widowski has supervised over 60 Masters and 10 PhD students and published over 200 scientific papers and book chapters.

She has served on a number of scientific advisory committees for national animal welfare guidelines including the National Farm Animal Care Council (Canada) Scientific Committees for Pigs, for Turkeys, Broilers and Breeders and for Laying Hens. As Chair of the Scientific Committee for the for Laying Hens, she was a also member of the Layer Code Development Committee and the Animal Care Program Team which wrote the on-farm animal welfare assessment for all laying hens in Canada. She also serves on the United Egg Producers Scientists Committee on Animal Welfare which develops animal care guidelines for 90% of laying hens in the USA.