Profiled Members

Animal politics, race, nationalism and settler colonialism; animal/vegan activism in Israel-Palestine

Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice

Animal rights and environmentalism

Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics

Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection

Evolutionary literature/poetics/film/art; Charles Darwin; decomposition

Animals and contemporary art; ethical strategies in contemporary art practice

Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism

Donkeys and their representation in human cultures

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

Horse racing and animal perspectives, training methods, class and gender in human-animal relationships

Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities

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.

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

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 studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships

The representation of animals in scientific literature, film, wildlife documentaries, contemporary and historical writing, fiction and advertising

Human-animal interactions and relationships; human behaviour change models for improving animal welfare

Psychology; the human-animal bond

Ethnography; relationships between humans and dogs within the greyhound racing community of New South Wales

The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions.

Art; Animal welfare

Young children's empathy towards animals; animal advocacy

Human-animal perpectives; art

Hybrid film forms, animals and landscape in film, posthumanism,

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

Feminist epistemology and constructs of Other, pertaining to animal ethics

Representations of dogs and human–dog relationships in life writing

The use of grazing animals in the management of modern orchards; applications of organic and sustainable systems in agriculture

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

Animal welfare regulation in the live export trade, green and eco criminology, species justice, critical and non-speciesist criminology

Animals and art practices

Digital media, perception, representation, technology and nonhuman animals

The relationship between symbolism, attitude to and treatment of animals in ancient and modern Cyprus; animal studies publishing

The representation of animals in contemporary literature; Critical Animal Literary Studies.

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.

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

Fiona’s research connects feminist critical race studies and Animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race and species intersect.

Literary animal studies; creative writing

Animal rights and ethics; Psychology, philosophy and animal ethics

Public attitudes to animal welfare in Australia; animal activists' use of social media to advance their campaigns

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

Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies

Anthrozoology, critical animal studies, political ecology, effective animal advocacy

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

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

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

Animals in sport and recreation; the human-animal bond; horse and human relations from an educational, psychological and social justice perspective.

Ecological history of precolonial Africa, Nomadic Pastoralism, Environmental History and Political Economy of Colonialism

Australian and international dairy, live animal export and the greyhound racing industry

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