Clive Phillips PhD is an academic and author whose research interests include the welfare of farm, companion and captive wild animals.  He is currently a Professor of Animal Welfare at the University of Queensland and has been a member of the Voiceless Scientific Expert Advisory Council since 2009. 

Clive has a PhD in dairy cattle nutrition and behaviour from the University of Glasgow. He has held teaching positions at the University of Wales, Bangor and the University of Cambridge’s veterinary department, conducting research into cattle and sheep welfare. In 2003 he immigrated to Australia to hold the inaugural Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Queensland.  He has since established the Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics at UQ, which conducts research on the welfare of zoo and farm animals and the ethics of animal use.

Clive is also involved in the development and implementation of State and Federal government welfare strategies in Australia. He has published over 150 articles on animal welfare and management in scientific journals and is the author or editor of 8 books, as well as a book series for Springer on the welfare of animals. His most recent book The Welfare of Animals: the Silent Majority, was published in 2008. 

Clive was the winner of the 2012 Voiceless Eureka Prize for Scientific Research that Contributes to Animal Protection and he is published regularly on The Conversation.