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

Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection

Child and animal relationships; the role of the animal in early childhood educational settings; animals and tourism; posthuman theory

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

Animals and food; animals and art; animals in feminist theory; “tranimals” (animal inside trans-); performance

Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies

Social construction of non-human animals through tourism and leisure

Australia’s animal protection regime.
The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.

Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning

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