Research interests / activities
Josephine's research focuses on sociological and literary challenges to dominant discourses obscuring violence in human relations with other animals. She is a former social welfare worker who researched disenfranchised grief and human-animal relations in the mid 1990s as an undergrad at Monash University, founding Australia's first service for bereaved humans of animal companions (Agape) as a result. She was the founding foster carer, and an educator, for the Australian Companion Rabbit Society, having the privilege of fostering seventeen former 'laboratory' rabbits as part of this work. She volunteers at local rabbit and farm animal sanctuaries