Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies

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

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

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