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Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Posthumanist applied linguistics, feminist perspectives, and the representation of animals and birds in news media, science, and the arts Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur. Senior Lecturer, English Literature Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice Professor of English Animals and nature in literature, cultural representations and practices; animals and colonialism, decolonisation and globalisation Independent Scholar Animal law, animal rights, human rights, environmental protection, international and comparative law Sessional Lecturer, adjunct researcher Anthrozoologist and host of the podcast The Deal with Animals PhD Candidate Cannibalism; Animal studies; Cultural studies; Ethics Independent Scholar Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection Researcher Human-animal relationships in the intersection of sustainability studies, ecological thought and social change for sustainability. Lecturer, Level B Animal Welfare; Canine Health. Independent Scholar Representations of animals in culture; ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropomorphism Senior Research Fellow 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 PhD Candidate Animal welfare law and regulation Research affiliate Evolutionary thanatology, animal emotion, human-nonhuman animal relations, animal self-determination and liberation Adjunct (ECR) Sociology, literature and fiction in relation to other animals, with particular interest in discourse analysis, political ideologies, violence and grief Graduate Student Literary representations of animals, domestication and feminism Lecturer, Environmental Science Writer (fiction, poetry) Writer (fiction, poetry) Prosecutions Officer Animal law and science; Animal welfare Deputy Director (Academic) Sydney Environment Institute Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Anthropology Senior Lecturer Animal welfare; new media and the politics of animal protection Doctor of Creative Arts Dr Ellie Coleman is an installation artist who is passionate about practice-led research and animal ethics particularly in contemporary art. Researcher Masters student, University of Divinity 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) PhD Candidate Veterinary medicine; cognition; moral agency in animals PhD Candidate PhD Candidate: multispecies relations & multispecies ethnography Extinction; Cultural Studies; Species History Associate Lecturer, UNSW Art + Design Histories of non-human animal introductions (particularly birds) into the 'New World'. 19th century house sparrow introductions into Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Melbourne. DECRA Fellow, Anthropology Visiting Fellow Human-animal dynamics and governance; discourse, policy and justice Research Fellow Animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals. Course Coordinator of Master of Social Work Program 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. Senior Lecturer in Japanese Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships Adjunct Researcher The representation of animals in scientific literature, film, wildlife documentaries, contemporary and historical writing, fiction and advertising Visiting Lecture in Sociology and in Animal Welfare Veterinary nursing, vegan abolitionist, Critical Animal Studies Fiction Writer (Independant) 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. PhD Candidate 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. Adjunct Lecturer The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions. I have many roles: academic, student, research assistant, editor, dog-human, ecofeminist My goal is to rewrite destructive narratives around humanity's relationship to the more-than-human world. PhD Candidate Postdoctoral Research Fellow Critical Animal Studies, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Sexual Violence Prevention Senior policy researcher Lecturer Animal rights; nonhuman animals and the law Independent Scholar Researching animals in art; animal mascots; the human-animal bond. Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies 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 Independent Scholar Rabbits, rabbit perspectives and rabbit exploitation; Animal rights; Vegan education Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies Writer/Researcher/Editor Dingo–human relationships; Colonialism; Decolonisation Doctoral Student Associate Professor Lecturer, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations PhD Candidate Compassionate Conservation; Pest Control; Speciesism Adjunct Professor Social construction of non-human animals through tourism and leisure Deputy Head of School, School of Arts Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline Lecturer in Law Australia’s animal protection regime. Lecturer in Creative Writing Creative writing, animal studies. PhD Candidate I am a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Lecturer in Political Philosophy and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry Linguistics research - Lecturer, Animation and Interactive Media art and technology, digital media, 3D animation, procedural modelling, procedural animation, virtual reality Forrest Foundation PhD Scholar Animals in Indigenous rock art; animals and social identity; decolonising taxonomic identification; ethology. Vice-chair, Australasian Animal Studies Association Dr lynn mowson is a sculptor whose practice is driven by the, often violent, entangled relationships between human and non-human animals, in particular agricultural animals and the biotech industries. Her sculptural research has been featured the books The Art of the Animal, Lantern Press, 2015, Carol J Adam’s Neither Man nor Beast, Bloomsbury, 2018, Animaladies, Bloomsbury Press, 2018. She has exhibited widely in Australia, and her artwork was included in SPOM: Sexual Politics of Meat at The Animal Museum, LA, in 2017. Currently her collaborative work 'feeler', focusing on the motherhood and consumption of Octopuses is touring Australia as part of Experimenta Life Forms. Lecturer The relationship between symbolism, attitude to and treatment of animals in ancient and modern Cyprus; animal studies publishing Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning Honorary Professorial Fellow, VCA; Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University Practice-based research; co-composing art and cultural work with nonhuman animals Senior Researcher, School of Social & Policy 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. Senior Lecturer Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related. Professor of Law Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food. Principal Scientist Historian Independent Scholar Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics Professor and Cultural Studies Programme Coordinator, English and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Creative Arts Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Independent researcher Senior Lecturer Fiona’s research connects feminist critical race studies and Animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race and species intersect. Teacher/Researcher Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services. Bachelor of Sculpture and Spatial Practice, 3rd year I am a 24 year old artist and writer living in lutruwita/Tasmania. I am passionate about human/animal ethics, contemporary animal philosophy and visual art surrounding the topic of animals, to which my practice as a whole is devoted. Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation PhD Candidate and Research Assistant (Theology) Creature-inclusive theology that acknowledges the value and dignity of non-human creatures. Animal Theology, Pentecostal Theology and Pneumatology Honorary Associate Professor in Media & Cultural Studies 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. Independent researcher Whaling; cetacean vocalisation; environmental philosophy; animals and ethics PhD Candidate Animal political and legal rights; animal ethics; animal law; animal activism Assistant Professor Head of School, School of Creative Arts Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation Co-founder and Managing Director of Voiceless, Ondine is the Co-founder and MD of Voiceless, author and PhD candidate at Sydney University focussing on pro-animal values. Subject Coordinator, tutor and supervisor Creative writing; Ecofeminism; Human-Animal studies Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema Research Officer, The University of Adelaide Dr Zoei Sutton is a sociologist interested in critical, nonhuman animal-centric research. EASE working group Independent researcher Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics Founder and trustee, Kalimpong Animal Shelter, Darjeeling Animal Shelter; PhD Candidate, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM) 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 Independent scholar Lecturer Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids) PhD Candidate Human conflicts regarding wildlife; macropod management in the Australian Capital Territory Early Career Researcher History of animal activism; History of the Australian animal movement; Australian politics; Social movement studies; the global activism of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Senior Lecturer, Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies. 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. Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School Animal protection ethics, law and policy. Postdoctoral Fellow Research Fellow with Project Air Lecturer Connections and disjunctions of child/animal relations; animals and early childhood education; ecological justice PhD Candidate PhD Candidate Postdoctoral Research Fellow Michael is an animal historian interested in animals' subjective historical experiences. Professor Independent film maker and writer Independent scholar Nikki is interested in the use of more ethical forms of tourism to improve the welfare and conservation of Thailand’s captive elephants. Research Program Leader Rolf Schlagloth is koala researchers and educator who believes in the power of the koala as a flagship species. Emeritus Professor Doctoral Candidate – Doctor of Philosophy, specialization in Environmental Education
Welfare conceptions of the thoroughbred industry and of animal protection organisations.
Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Aotearoa New Zealand
PhD Student at RMIT
Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Science, The University of Technology Sydney
Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
Urban Planner/Consultant: Balancing Act Adelaide Pet-friendly Planning 
School of Business and Law
The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.
counter discourses of meat consumption and factory farming. The conflation of individual and species interests of non-human animals in environmental/ ecological discourses
Deputy Editor in Chief of the journal Animals, an open access journal
PhD candidate at the University of Sydney
Co-founder, International Association of Vegan Sociologists
Sociology & Animals Thematic Group Co-convener, The Australian Sociological Association
Book Review Editor, Society & Animals Journal
Patron, Help in Suffering Animal Shelter, Jaipur;
Assistant Editor, Australian Animal Protection Law Journal
Environmental law with a focus on wild animal protection.
Regulatory studies and protection of animals.
