Table 1.
List of categories/dimensions used in canine research funding dataset content analysis, with example keywords.
Table 2.
Benefit for dog: Scoring table for numerical metric.
Table 3.
Benefit for dog: Scoring table for impact on wellbeing metric.
Table 4.
Pathway to impact: Scoring table for ideal-world impact metric.
Table 5.
Pathway to impact: Scoring table for real-world feasibility metric (represented by human behaviour change (HBC)).
Table 6.
Not-for-profit UK canine health and welfare research funding summary, 2012–2022.
Fig 1.
Annual UK canine-relevant funding categorised by wide-scope and animal-directed funders, 2012–2022.
Fig 2.
UK canine-relevant funding categorised by type of funder and by broad category, 2012–2022.
Fig 3.
UK canine-focused funding categorised by funder, > £2million only, 2012–2022.
Table 7.
Funding organisations and grant provision for research investigating welfare impact of management protocols for dogs in UK shelters, 2012–2022.
Fig 4.
Total UK canine-relevant funding, 2012–2022, categorised by type of main recipient institution.
Fig 5.
Top ten UK universities by total in-scope canine relevant research funding, 2012–2022.
(RVC = Royal Veterinary College, AHT = Animal Health Trust).
Fig 6.
Canine-relevant funding 2012–2022 by UK veterinary school, arranged by date of foundation.
Fig 7.
Box-and-whisker plot showing benefit for dog score for UK canine-relevant research funding, categorised by funder and ordered by ascending median within wide-scope funder group (blue) and animal-directed funder group (green), 2012–2022.
Table 8.
Low and high-scoring ‘benefit for the dog’ (BFD) profiles for UK funders of canine health and welfare research, 2012–2022 (>10 grants only, divided by wide-scope and animal-directed sectors).
Fig 8.
Box-and-whisker plot showing pathway to impact score for UK canine-relevant research funding, categorised by funder and organised by ascending median within wide-scope funder group (blue) and animal-directed funder group (green), 2012–2022.
Table 9.
Low and high-scoring ‘pathway to impact’ (PTI) profiles for UK funders of canine health and welfare research, 2012–2022 (> 10 grants only, divided by wide-scope and animal-directed sectors).