Profiled Members

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

I am a fiction writer and see literature as a powerful, covert means to shape sociocultural conversations and individual world-views by exploring the complexity, ambiguity, and consequences of human experiences and understandings.

Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics

Dr Zoei Sutton is a sociologist interested in critical, nonhuman animal-centric research.

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

Research interests / activities

• Cultural theory (post-structuralism, deconstruction, posthumanism)
• Continental philosophy (Derrida, Foucault, Arendt, Lyotard, Hegel and Nietzsche)
• Biopolitics, political philosophy, animal politics
• Environmental humanities, ecoculture and philosophical ethology

Current research projects

• Living Together: New Approaches to Multispecies Conflict and Coexistence (with Matthew Chrulew, Dinesh Wadiwel, Thom van Dooren, Jacqueline Dalziell, Dominique Lestel)
• On the Specific Existence of Animal Culture
• The Forms and Limits of the Concept of the Political: A Speculative Genealogy

I conduct research in animal studies and in anthropogenic extinction, in particular extinction's cultural and historical significance and the way it is articulated and practiced.

I am an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University in Western Australia, and a series editor for Sydney University Press' Animal Politics series.

I am a member of the Extinction Studies Working Group http://extinctionstudies.org and have published widely on extinction, and species and colonial histories. See: http://www.rickdevos.net/publications

I have recently edited a collection entitled Decolonising Animals (Sydney University Press, 2023), and in 2019 I co-edited, with Matthew Chrulew, a special issue of Cultural Studies Review entitled ‘Extinction Studies: Stories of Unravelling and Reworlding’.

Children's literature; animal activism; environmental protection

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning. My research is focused on human-built avian architecture. I research how humans intentionally build structures and environments to modify avian behaviours, and how it has made animals vulnerable to exploitation. My work is underpinned by cultural and material histories of birds that have shaped what birds mean to humans in architecture and industrial practice.

Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies

Animal law and science; Animal welfare

Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.

Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations

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

Sociology, literature and fiction in relation to other animals, with particular interest in discourse analysis, political ideologies, violence and grief

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.

My goal is to rewrite destructive narratives around humanity's relationship to the more-than-human world.

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

Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism

Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law

Human-animal dynamics and governance; discourse, policy and justice

Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.

PhD Candidate: multispecies relations & multispecies ethnography
Urban Planner/Consultant: Balancing Act Adelaide Pet-friendly Planning

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.

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

Creative writing, animal studies.

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.

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

Through the exploration of the social worlds of greyhound racing and rescue I consider how animals and people can become entangled in contention as a result of different beliefs around human-animal relationships.

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

Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals

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

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

Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection

Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema

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)

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