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Diploma in Equine Welfare, Training & Behaviour

This Level 5 Diploma in Equine Welfare, Training & Behaviour is a comprehensive course that covers many of the complex aspects to becoming an ethical equine professional. The course applies the latest up-to-date science-based theory of training horses, their welfare and behaviour and as importantly, humans, in practical ways. Using this approach you can rest assured that both horses and their people will gain the most from their training.
Previous study in equine related studies to Level 4 is recommended.
There is an 18mth completion time for this course and the learning is mapped to Ofqual Descriptors for Level 5.
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What's included?

  • Monthly 1-2-1's with your Tutor.
  • Live Teaching Events
  • Peer Review Groups.
  • Study Groups
  • Enriched Learning.
  • Responsive & Timely Support.
  • Study on your Schedule.
  • Entry to our Private Community.
  • Generous Study Time (with extensions available)

Course reviews

Last month I completed my diploma in Equine Horse Welfare Training and Behaviour. It was a personal decision to go through this training as I wanted to learn more about these subjects being a horse owner myself.
In the past I have felt I could not contribute to any conversations about these subjects as I didn’t have the knowledge nor the experience. I can now. This course opened up my eyes, made me think and question the ethics behind each of the modules which I studied and researched.
I highly recommend this course.
Thank you DoGenius!
Sheryl Higgins
Equine Diploma Student

Course Content

Meet the instructor

Irene Perrett

Irene Perrett. MA, Cert Ed., BHS IV SM.

Irene’s involvement with rescue dogs resonates with her long-held passion to better understand human and more-than-human relations. She has a background in equine education, contributing to the development of equine courses and is a Pony Club AH assessor. Irene works with horses and their guardians to engender an empathetic and educated approach. It was a Romanian rescue dog who sparked her desire to research and study canines, with qualifications in teaching, training, bereavement, animal cruelty and well-being. She gained an Advanced Diploma in Canine Psychology and Behaviour in 2018, an Anthrozoology MA in 2022 and is currently a PhD student at the University of Exeter. She has a particular interest in the well-being and rights of human and non-human animals, and engendering cohesive interspecies relationships. Irene lives with and fosters Romanian rescue dogs and can often be found walking with them over Exmoor.

Patrick Jones - Course author

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