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Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
Summary: Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings
PhD Student / Sessional Tutor / Research Assistant
University of Wollongong
Summary: Animal politics, race, nationalism and settler colonialism; animal/vegan activism in Israel-Palestine
University of Technology Sydney
Summary: Posthumanism and human-animal relationships; Gender and Sexuality; Masculinities
RMIT University
Summary: Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur.
Senior Lecturer, English Literature
University of the Sunshine Coast
Summary: Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice
University of Canterbury
Summary: Animals and nature in literature, cultural representations and practices; animals and colonialism, decolonisation and globalisation
Summary: Animal rights and environmentalism
Summary: Art and animality; human-animal relations
Summary: The co-evolution of humans and large carnivores and the interface between these species in contemporary societies.
The University of Melbourne
Summary: Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics
Queensland University of Technology
University of Oxford
Summary: Anthrozoology; the depiction and villainisation of predators in modern media
Summary: Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection
University of Sydney
Summary: Human-animal relationships in the intersection of sustainability studies, ecological thought and social change for sustainability.
Newton International Fellow
University of Sheffield
Summary: Evolutionary literature/poetics/film/art; Charles Darwin; decomposition
Lecturer, Level B
University of Tasmania
Summary: Animal Welfare; Canine Health.
PhD Candidate and Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
Summary: Animals and contemporary art; ethical strategies in contemporary art practice
Griffith University
Summary: Human/animal ethics and aesthetics in films studies; representations of human/animal evolution
Monash University
Summary: Child and animal relationships; the role of the animal in early childhood educational settings; animals and tourism; posthuman theory
University of Wollongong
Summary: Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism
University of Wollongong
Summary: Human-Animal Relations; Philosophy
Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Newcastle
Summary: Donkeys and their representation in human cultures
University of Wollongong
Summary: The politics of meat; the politics of animal welfare and animal rights in Australia
Senior Research Fellow
University of Wollongong
Summary: Animal Studies; modernist art and literature; critical and cultural theory with a focus on the lived experiences of non-human animals – particularly those in the cattle industries in Australia. Founder and chief editor of Animal Studies Journal
La Trobe University
Summary: Dog welfare; ethical dog acquisition, 'breed' and dog caretaking attitudes and discourses
Durham University
Summary: Critical Animal Studies; Critical Plant Studies; Deconstruction; Ecocriticism; Postcolonialism
Melbourne Law School
Summary: Animal welfare law and regulation
University of Sydney
Summary: Evolutionary thanatology, animal emotion, human-nonhuman animal relations, animal self-determination and liberation
University of Melbourne
Summary: Literary representations of animals, domestication and feminism
University of Warwick
Summary: Horse racing and animal perspectives, training methods, class and gender in human-animal relationships
University of Wollongong
Summary: Animal law and science; Animal welfare
Professor, Sociology and Social Policy
University of Sydney
Summary: Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities
University of Sydney
Summary: Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection
University of Canterbury
Summary: Multi-species ethnography; animal biography
Masters student, University of Divinity
Summary: Farm- and working-animal welfare, including live export; ethical food production; animals as “raw materials” and research subjects; animal abuse and neglect (particularly concerning farm animals)
University of Canterbury
Summary: Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals
Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University
Summary: Extinction; Cultural Studies; Species History
Associate Lecturer, UNSW Art + Design
PhD Candidate, MADA, Monash University
Summary: Histories of non-human animal introductions (particularly birds) into the 'New World'. 19th century house sparrow introductions into Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Melbourne.
Artist
Summary: Contemporary art and animals; animal-human reciprocal gaze; ethics, aesthetics and animal advocacy; representations of companion animals in art, representations of farm animals in art.
University of Canterbury
Summary: Human-animal relationships in Māori literature
Honorary Senior Fellow,
University of Wollongong
Summary: The intersection between animal law and public law, particularly issues such as accountability and transparency in lawmaking and enforcement.
QMomentum Visiting Scholar, School of Justice
Queensland University of Technology
Summary: Human-animal dynamics and governance; discourse, policy and justice
Australian National University
Summary: Animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.
University of Melbourne
Summary: Representation of animals in literature; animals and contemporary Australian poetry
University of Queensland
Summary: Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships
Associate Professor in Social Science
Queensland University of Technology
Summary: Human-animals studies; Social Work; Domestic violence and companion animals
University of Tasmania
Summary: The representation of animals in scientific literature, film, wildlife documentaries, contemporary and historical writing, fiction and advertising
Macquarie University
Summary: Animal ethics; animal consciousness and cognition
University of Liverpool
Summary: Human-animal interactions and relationships; human behaviour change models for improving animal welfare
Edge Hill University
Summary: Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies
Honours student, Psychology
University of Adelaide
Summary: Psychology; the human-animal bond
University of Melbourne
Summary: Birds in ancient Rome, human/bird relations throughout history.
University of Newcastle
Summary: Ethnography; relationships between humans and dogs within the greyhound racing community of New South Wales
Senior Lecturer, Philosophy
Western Sydney University
Summary: Animal and environmental ethics, assisting wild animals in need, animal rights extremism, the reporting of animal research in the media, and the ethical limits of veterinary expenditure
Byron Underwater Research Group
Summary: The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions.
Independent
Summary: Grief and Bereavement, Wildlife care, Student education and supervision.
Summary: Art; Animal welfare
Victoria University
Summary: Duties of Care in Law owed to Animals
University of Waikato
Summary: Young children's empathy towards animals; animal advocacy
La Trobe University
Summary: Critical Animal Studies, Queer Theory, Gender Studies
Casual Academic, National Art School
Summary: Human-animal perpectives; art
PhD Candidate
University of Canterbury
Summary: Dog wellbeing; Dog training; Dog behaviour
University of New South Wales
Summary: Animals and food; animals and art; animals in feminist theory; "tranimals" (animal inside trans-); performance
Senior Lecturer, Filmmaking
Liverpool John Moores University
Summary: Hybrid film forms, animals and landscape in film, posthumanism,
Deakin University
Summary: Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law
Summary: Researching animals in art; animal mascots; the human-animal bond.
RMIT University
Summary: Social work; interspecies homelessness; animal rights
Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies
University of Melbourne (VCA, School of Art)
Summary: The cultural history of bats; animal art theory and criticism (colour theory, human-animal relations, theory for the Anthropocene, decolonisation); animal language; plant sentience; more-than-human perception
Researcher and Director, EVER
Summary: Rabbits, rabbit perspectives and rabbit exploitation; Animal rights; Vegan education
Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
University of Wollongong
Assoc. Prof. of English /ARC Future Fellow
School of Humanities/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Summary: Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies
University of Wollongong
Summary: Feminist epistemology and constructs of Other, pertaining to animal ethics
University of Technology Sydney
Summary: Dingo - human relationships
PhD Candidate, School of Arts
University of New England
Summary: Representations of dogs and human–dog relationships in life writing
University of Canterbury
Summary: Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism
Southern Cross University
Summary: Social construction of non-human animals through tourism and leisure
Lecturer in Information Management
University of South Australia
Summary: The use of grazing animals in the management of modern orchards; applications of organic and sustainable systems in agriculture
LaTrobe University
Summary: Animal ethics; political philosophy; research ethics
Deputy Head of School, School of Arts
University of New England, NSW
Summary: Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline
Lecturer in Law
CQUniversity Australia
Summary: Australia’s animal protection regime.
PhD Candidate, Sessional Teaching and Research Academic
Queensland University of Technology
Summary: Animal welfare regulation in the live export trade, green and eco criminology, species justice, critical and non-speciesist criminology
University of Melbourne
Summary: Creative writing, animal studies.
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
University of Wollongong
Summary: Linguistics research -
Lecturer, Animation and Interactive Media
RMIT University, Melbourne
Summary: Digital media, perception, representation, technology and nonhuman animals
Research Assistant & Steering Committee Member, Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network
University of Melbourne
Summary: Artist and animals' advocate working with imagery responding to the horrors of the dairy industry
Sydney University Press
Summary: The relationship between symbolism, attitude to and treatment of animals in ancient and modern Cyprus; animal studies publishing
Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development
Deakin University
Summary: Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning
Senior Lecturer
Australian National University
Summary: The representation of animals in contemporary literature; Critical Animal Literary Studies.
Honorary Professorial Fellow, VCA; Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
VCA, University of Melbourne; and La Trobe University
Summary: Practice-based research; co-composing art and cultural work with nonhuman animals
Senior Researcher,
Flinders University
Summary: Positive training, operant conditioning for companion, zoo, farm animals; animals and public health; impact and human control/management of introduced species; attitudes toward and policies on urban animals.
University of New South Wales
Summary: Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.
Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Summary: Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food.
Summary: Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics
Professor and Cultural Studies Programme Coordinator, English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Creative Arts
University of Canterbury
Summary: Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
Summary: Fiona’s research connects feminist critical race studies and Animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race and species intersect.
Doctor of Creative Arts candidate
University of the Sunshine Coast
Summary: Sun bears and conservation
University of Melbourne
Summary: Literary animal studies; creative writing
Associate Professor, English Department
Tamkang University, Taiwan
Summary: Eco-criticism; eco-film; posthumanism; animal studies; animal and plant representation in Australian literature
Summary: Animal rights and ethics; Psychology, philosophy and animal ethics
University of Tasmania
Summary: Popular romance studies; animal studies; narratology
Associate Professor
Edith Cowan University
Summary: Public attitudes to animal welfare in Australia; animal activists' use of social media to advance their campaigns
Philosophy, University of Wollongong
Summary: Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics
Australian National University
Summary: Animal health, illness and healing practices in society, with a focus on Tibet, Bhutan and the Indian subcontinent.
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Communication
University of Southern Queensland
Summary: Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Sydney
Summary: Theories of interspecies justice; political emotions and moral psychology; interspecies friendship and love; ignorance studies; politics of neurodiversity
Central Queensland University
Summary: Human-Animal interaction; potential links between personality factors (especially empathy), interpersonal violence and the treatment of animals; community attitudes regarding farm animal welfare
Subject Coordinator, tutor and supervisor
University of Melbourne
Summary: Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies
Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies
Monash University
Summary: Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema
Humane Society International
Summary: Anthrozoology, critical animal studies, political ecology, effective animal advocacy
PhD Candidate/Casual Academic
Flinders University
Summary: Species inclusive research, sociology of human-animal studies, critical animal studies and human-companion animal relations
Summary: Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics
Flinders University
Summary: Sociology of human-animal relations
Summary: Founder and trustee, Kalimpong Animal Shelter, Darjeeling Animal Shelter;
PhD Candidate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM)
University of Sydney
Summary: Raising the importance of protecting existing wildlife populations in local urban planning; The relationship between front-line emergency responders and companion animal ‘owners’ or guardians in natural disasters
Australasian Bat Night Coordinator; Convenor Flying-fox subcommittee
Australasian Bat Society
Summary: Flying-fox management and community attitudes
Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow
University of Sydney
Summary: Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)
University of Wollongong
Summary: Human conflicts regarding wildlife; macropod management in the Australian Capital Territory
University of Melbourne
Summary: History of animal activism; History of the Australian animal movement; Australian politics; Social movement studies; the global activism of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Senior Lecturer, Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies
University of Sydney
Summary: Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.
University of Sydney
Summary: Animals in sport and recreation; the human-animal bond; horse and human relations from an educational, psychological and social justice perspective.
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
Summary: Primary research interest is the relationship between how nonhuman animals are depicted and what this might have to say about how these animals are thought about and treated.
Senior Lecturer in History
Department of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies, Laikipia University, Kenya
Summary: Ecological history of precolonial Africa, Nomadic Pastoralism, Environmental History and Political Economy of Colonialism
Lecturer, Griffith Law School
Griffith University
Summary: Animal protection ethics, law and policy.
Program Director, Bachelor of Health Sciences
University of South Australia
Summary: The intersections of human and animal leisure; Pets, health and older people
Swinburne University of Technology
Summary: Connections and disjunctions of child/animal relations; animals and early childhood education; ecological justice
