Profiled Members

Children's literature; animal activism; environmental protection

Intersectionality, animal and anti-colonial activism, Israel-Palestine, settler colonialism, ethnography, phenomenology

Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur.

Animals and nature in literature, cultural representations and practices; animals and colonialism, decolonisation and globalisation

Death, Human-Animal Relations

The co-evolution of humans and large carnivores and the interface between these species in contemporary societies.
The effects of large carnivores on processes of animal domestication, past and present.

Vegan nutrition

Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection

Animals and contemporary art; ethical strategies in contemporary art practice

Human/animal ethics and aesthetics in films studies; representations of human/animal evolution

Child and animal relationships; the role of the animal in early childhood educational settings; animals and tourism; posthuman theory

Human-Animal Relations; Philosophy

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

Critical Animal Studies; Critical Plant Studies; Deconstruction; Ecocriticism; Postcolonialism

Evolutionary thanatology, animal emotion, human-nonhuman animal relations, animal self-determination and liberation

PhD Candidate at Pompeu Fabra University with a dissertation about European dairy lobbies and think tanks.

Animal law and science; Animal welfare

Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection

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)

Fiona is a PhD Candidate and urban planner/practitioner, with an interest in how companion animals (mainly dogs) are integrated into urban environments.

Histories of non-human animal introductions (particularly birds) into the 'New World'. 19th century house sparrow introductions into Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Melbourne.

The intersection between animal law and public law, particularly issues such as accountability and transparency in lawmaking and enforcement.

Animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.

Heather Fraser is a critical social worker who uses visual methods and narrative research in the areas of violence and abuse (humans and animals), oppression and privilege, community organising and service delivery.

Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies

Animal welfare science; companion animals

Art; Animal welfare

Animals and food; animals and art; animals in feminist theory; "tranimals" (animal inside trans-); performance

Researching animals in art; animal mascots; the human-animal bond.

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

Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism

Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline

Creative writing, animal studies.

art and technology, digital media, 3D animation, procedural modelling, procedural animation, virtual reality

Dr lynn mowson is a sculptor whose practice is driven by the entangled relationships between human and non-human animals, in particular agricultural animals and the biotech industries. Her sculptural research has been featured the books The Art of the Animal, Lantern Press, 2015, Carol J Adam’s Neither Man nor Beast, Bloomsbury, 2018, Animaladies, Bloomsbury Press, 2018. She has exhibited widely in Australia, and her artwork was included in SPOM: Sexual Politics of Meat at The Animal Museum, LA, in 2017.

Practice-based research; co-composing art and cultural work with nonhuman animals

I am in the early stages of my Masters by research candidature at Swinburne university. The question I am posing is, ‘Where is the animal voice in animal assisted therapy?

Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food.

Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics

Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services.

Animal rights and ethics; Psychology, philosophy and animal ethics

Social Work; animal violence; domestic violence

My current research focus on public attitudes to animal welfare identifies and maps recent shifts in the Australian imaginary and public sphere around human and animal relations.

Animal political and legal rights; animal ethics; animal law; animal activism

Animal health, illness and healing practices in society, with a focus on Tibet, Bhutan and the Indian subcontinent.

Theories of interspecies justice; political emotions and moral psychology; interspecies friendship and love; ignorance studies; politics of neurodiversity

Independent Researcher & Consultant, Sharma-Brymer Consultancy Services.

Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies

As a vegetarian for over 35 years, I have been delighted to return to University to do a Masters Degree and discover that Human-Animal Studies has become a field of research.

Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics

Founder and trustee, Kalimpong Animal Shelter, Darjeeling Animal Shelter;
Patron, Help in Suffering Animal Shelter, Jaipur;
Assistant Editor, Australian Animal Protection Law Journal

Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)

History of animal activism; History of the Australian animal movement; Australian politics;  Social movement studies; the global activism of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

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.

Classics and Ancient History, Ancient Greece, Human-Canine bonds

Animal protection ethics, law and policy.
Environmental law with a focus on wild animal protection.
Regulatory studies and protection of animals.

Connections and disjunctions of child/animal relations; animals and early childhood education; ecological justice