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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.
Human-animal relationships in the intersection of sustainability studies, ecological thought and social change for sustainability.
Welfare conceptions of the thoroughbred industry and of animal protection organisations.
Senior Research Fellow
School of the Arts, English and Media
University of Wollongong
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
Masters student, University of Divinity
Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
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)
Histories of non-human animal introductions (particularly birds) into the 'New World'. 19th century house sparrow introductions into Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Melbourne.
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.
Human-animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, Yolngu of East Arnhem Land, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.
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
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
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry
University of Wollongong
Linguistics research -
counter discourses of meat consumption and factory farming. The conflation of individual and species interests of non-human animals in environmental/ ecological discourses
Senior Researcher,
School of Social & Policy Studies
Flinders University
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.
In 2017 I will be working on 'anticipatory archives' for Termites and Stygofauna; harnessing the speculative possibilities of contemporary art to envision new environmental futures. My work with animals overlaps with the wider network of nonhuman players in ecosystems and biomes.
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Sydney
Theories of interspecies justice; political emotions and moral psychology; interspecies friendship and love; ignorance studies; politics of neurodiversity
Human-Animal interaction; potential links between personality factors (especially empathy), interpersonal violence and the treatment of animals; community attitudes regarding farm animal welfare
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
PhD Candidate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM)
University of Sydney
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
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.
Lecturer, Early Childhood, Swinburne University of Technology
PhD Candidate, Monash University
The connections and disjunctions of child/animal relatings in family homes and early childhood education within a critical, posthuman framework; how animal species are socially constructed, culturally reproduced and positioned in early childhood education
The Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group is spending 2019 with foundational thinking that focuses on multispecies justice. We began the …Read More »
Politics and Animals is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that explores the human-animal relationship from the vantage point of political science …Read More »
