BSc (Hons I), PhD After completing a BSc at the University of Melbourne in 2012, Joshua travelled for a time and ended up working as a tiger keeper in a Thai animal sanctuary for a year (2014). Returning to academia in 2015, Joshua received a first-class honours degree from CSU for his project using non-invasively collected measures of endocrine responses to evaluate welfare in sheep. Applying the techniques he learned, and coupling them with behavioural measures, Joshua then completed a PhD (submitted 2021) with CSU aimed at evaluating the welfare and reproductive biology of captive tigers in Australia. Joshua hopes that his research may help improve conditions for captive tigers (a passion of his), not just in Australia but also abroad. From 2018, Joshua was also teaching at CSU as a casual academic in a number of anatomy and physiology subjects across the School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences and the School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences, before starting a full-time position in 2022.
Animal Science
Dr Joshua Scherpenhuizen
Lecturer in Animal Anatomy and Physiology
Wagga Wagga
Building 294 Room 102
Subjects currently teaching into
Session 1
Session 2
Additional subjects previously taught (School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences)
Subjects previously tutored through the Indigenous Academic Success Program (IASP)